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MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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JUNE 12, 2013

I know Brad Feld wrote a similar post. Brad is the ultimate giver. Of course he wanted to talk a lot about his product and company – he was looking for money after all. The more you accomplish through hard work the more you will feel comfortable asking for more compensation at your job. As good as they come.

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MARCH 2, 2011

After the weekend kerfuffle over AngelList I was reading Brad Feld’s post on Signal vs. Noise. But aside from choosing the time of day to focus on signal vs. noise, Brad’s post got me thinking about another question – what is signal and what is noise? Brad is a zero inbox kind of guy. I enjoy that.

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MARCH 23, 2014

You may enjoy this post as an example that talks about my first meetings with Brad Feld, Tristan Walker, Justyn Howard and more. Let’s say your a junior developer, marketer, product manager, biz dev person at a startup or well-established technology company. Maybe 50 if you really invest time and effort. Roger Ehrenberg.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. Brad Feld points out in his widely-read book Startup Communities , that business schools within universities are generally devoid of innovation and thus are not engines of entrepreneurship. Techpreneurs.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Wise And Feld To The Rescue. Sean Wise and Brad Feld's Startup Opportunities, Know When To Quit Your Day Job is for students B and C. Readers are guided through the idea vetting process by covering a variety of topics, including: People, Pain, Product, Market, Plan, Pitch and Pitfalls. Able to access your target market.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Andy Sack, Dave McClure, Brad Feld & Jason Nazar (photo by Jolie Odell). We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle).

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JANUARY 13, 2013

You’d imagine your favorite founder, VC, blogger, political figure, billionaire, whatever has a stress free life pontificating about how to build the next really cool, society-altering product or changing a city, state or country. And I was glad to count Brad as a friend. And nobody releases products. For the year to end.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

In addition, I was honored to speak with such notable entrepreneurs as: Kevin O’Connor (Founder DoubleClick and FindTheBest), Brad Feld (Founder TechStars, Partner The Foundry Group), Marten Mickos (Founder MySQL and CEO of Eucalyptus Systems) and Len Short (CMO, (Product) RED, AOL and Charles Schwab).

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AUGUST 15, 2010

My partner was in product management at Demand Media. Brad Feld was sitting at my table. Once they have buy-off from David Cohen, Brad and others they have their 60-second pitch. Brad reinforced this at our dinner. If I’m interested in your product I naturally will check it out.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

I should note that my friend Brad Feld has written a new book on the subject that I would recommend if you want the bible on the topic. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic.

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MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. You really should go read Brad Feld's Implied Suspicion Versus Implied Trust. Feld: You seem to be operating from a perspective of “implied suspicion.”

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. You really should go read Brad Feld's Implied Suspicion Versus Implied Trust. Feld: You seem to be operating from a perspective of “implied suspicion.”

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JANUARY 30, 2013

And my friend Brad Feld & his wife had written a book on the importance of personal relationships which made me want to weigh in on that. Somebody commented that in 2013 I have done a lot more personal posts than usual. I didn’t set out that way. It just happened. Lots of tragedies in the past couple of months. Sandy Hook.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The product right now is like basic Facebook, and we are updating it to a new format we think more people will want, sort of a hybrid between Pinterest and Reddit, so that you can have any combination of features between those two. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. How do you get press and the blogosphere talking about your product? You might be surprised why this is the case. In response he sent me a competitive analysis.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

He had a partially built product. Brad Feld in Places to Find Developers in Exchange for Sweat Equity While finding a developer to work for sweat equity is an option, I’d assert that you’d be better served by hunting for a technical co-founder that is passionate about creating the company you envision.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. “VC and former entrepreneur Brad Feld also blogged about how many of his frat buddies at MIT had become successful entrepreneurs. so it’s not pointless to want to improve. I don’t think so.&#

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MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like.

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MAY 26, 2011

And just as my gut feel about the likely success of startups is often determined by looking at their velocity of product development and market progress of their product, so too is recruiting a factor in my assessment. Time spent onboarding new talented team members always yields more productivity than doing everything yourself.

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MARCH 2, 2010

I hope some day to emulate Brad Feld in this area. He said he found it terribly non-productive because he preferred to reserve time for companies in which he was likely to invest (or portfolio companies). He became the “turn down&# guy in his fund.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. In VC there are the obvious people including Bijan, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Josh Kopelman and Bryce Roberts.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

This initial, casual conversation led to a deeper discussion about the company’s products. Be Authentic, Not Synthetic – In a recent interview I conducted with Brad Feld , co-founder of TechStars and partner at Foundry Group, he summarized the foundation of quality marketing: “Just be you. A company has a personality.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus.

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JUNE 9, 2010

My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

The fact that I invest less just means the company is earlier stage and needed/wanted less or without a product/market fit we weren’t yet prepared to invest more heavily. Like Brad Feld I’m syndication agnostic but I have a slight preference toward working with others. We have a limited amount of deals we will do.

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APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Assistly’s main competitor is ZenDesk, whom I’m told also has a great product. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

If you are a Google subscription virgin and want to better understand how the process works, you can check out my startup-oriented YouTube channel , which has previously featured interviews with folks like Guy Kawasaki, Brad Feld and Steve Blank. The top-five YouTubers, along with a few of my favorites, are listed below. Total Views.

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JULY 22, 2010

Brad Feld hadn’t written his seminal “ term sheet series &# and The Funded hadn’t yet been created. The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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APRIL 3, 2010

When I was first starting companies in the late nineties it took $3 million just to get version one of our product out the door. Brad Feld at Foundry Group also invests in seed deals (this is a great post worth reading on Brad’s views of seed deals). Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive.

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MAY 22, 2018

Founders are understandably very passionate about their product and startup. It shows, you’re just thinking of the end goal, and not thinking about the product/offering,” said Francisco. Obsession about the product and the customer is a common trait among startup teams.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

Step 1: The Person, Not The Firm – As Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson make clear in their book Venture Deals , entrepreneurs should identify specific venture partners, rather than target firms as a whole. The VC will recognize you as a productive and additive member of the online startup community. Prep Steps.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

You can also have them automatically published to Twitter; in fact, I first heard about the Withings from seeing Brad Feld Tweet about it. I loved the product that much. The product is a wristband that you wear when you sleep and it tells you how restful or not your sleep was. I’m not that public about my weight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. These areas also have the diversity of genders, races, and points of view to encourage innovation and be productive as teams in a complex environment. Institutional capital – markets, system of laws, stability.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. And Brad Feld. Your memory – they never worked very hard and didn’t want to commit. Their memory – the idea was theirs in the first place and you ran with it and didn’t include them. That’s why I love VentureHacks.

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