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David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:48 David Clark The other way is, I, I think Foundry Group have done a really good job. 4 times in the scene
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:35 Mo Koyfman Zynga with, um, uh, Brad at Foundry.
20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings So I'm always very proud of the shows we do here at TwentyVC, but I don't think we necessarily always touch on some of the most important and meaningful topics, and I was very pleased to do the episode on alcohol and drinking last month,…
- ▶ 43:23 Tracy Lawrence And case in point for me was when I pitched Foundry, and we were sitting around a table for lunch in the 1:15 minutes, we talked about a wide range of things.
20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- ▶ 15:01 Katie Stanton The cameo was also great, and then they came back and said yes, so I think, you know, not taking no for an answer, just keep pushing for the ones that are most meaningful to you is important, and then tactically, there are a bunch of funds… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures
- ▶ 3:29 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Brad at Foundry, so thank you so much for joining me today, John.
20VC: Brad Feld on Why Market Size At Early Stage Is Not Helpful, His Biggest Learnings From The Boom & Bust of The Dot Com and How The Best VCs Work For Their CEOs
- ▶ 32:45 Brad Feld I and my partners at Foundry like to carry around
- ▶ 40:54 Brad Feld And around 2009 or 10, after we'd started Foundry, Jason and I were sitting around and we said, you know what, let's write a book.
- ▶ 48:21 Harry Stebbings I want to say again a huge thank you to Brad for all he's done for me over the last few years, and if you'd like to win the incredible Venture Deals, then simply email in to VentureDeals at FoundryGroup.com with the code FIRSTEPISODE for…
20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- ▶ 37:55 Dayna Grayson The other one is a situation where I'm on, in that seat, where I'm not officially on the board, but Brad Feld at Foundry Group is,
20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
- ▶ 11:08 David Cohen We also had a good offline set of relationships, so it was easy to call up Byron from Bessemer or Orion, you know, a founder group, and have offline conversations about what was going on and how we were going to work together to help make… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:24 Harry Stebbings Speaking of the LPs themselves, I spoke to Jamie Spearins now at Foundry, I used to be at Morgan Stanley before the show, and he asked a question also being, what have been some of the
20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings As for their fund investing, they've backed the likes of Excel, Founders Fund, Thrive, Lightspeed, Foundry Group, and many more incredible managers. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 18:58 Fred Destin And then, you know, the boutiques continue to operate well, so you'll see USV and Foundry and Benchmark continue to operate extremely well.
- ▶ 30:21 Harry Stebbings It's funny, I asked Brad Feld at Foundry, and you don't even know this, I asked him advice pre-joining a board the other day, and he said exactly that.
20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings Tony's also the co-founder and CEO at About.me, acquired by AOL in 2010, and they've since raised funding from some of our true favorites in the industry, including Brad at Foundry, Softech, and Bullpen, just to name a few.
20VC: The Fundamentals To Creating A Successful Venture Partnership & The Optimal Investment Decision Making Process with Ryan McIntyre, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Hello, and welcome back to part two of our very special feature of Foundry Group this week on the 20 Minute VC with me, your host, Harry Stebbings, found on Snapchat at hstebbings, and if you listened to Monday's fantastic episode with… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to get started today by hearing a little bit about you and how you came to rock the world of venture with Foundry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:07 Harry Stebbings And then Brad also asked a second follow-up question, and it's, was it a hard decision for you to make the move to the tech ecosystem now that it is, but it wasn't then of Colorado when you were in SF and moving from Mobius with the next…
- ▶ 8:17 Harry Stebbings Foundry, uh, is the center of Colorado's ecosystem now, or one of the centers with Techstars, but I do want to discuss today three different types of good in, in our ecosystem. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:05 Harry Stebbings What does the investment decision making process look like for you in the partnership at Foundry? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:27 Harry Stebbings And talking about kind of the partners that exist within Foundry and the investments, all of you are now board members, obviously, having, having been such experts in the field for so long now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 Ryan McIntyre Tools and ecosystem, you know, API-driven, self-serve-driven, go-to-market approaches, you know, that are exemplified by sort of a lot of the investments I've made at, uh, at Foundry Group, be it SendGrid or Mapbox or Pantheon as, as, as… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:10 Harry Stebbings And I'd like to say a huge thank you to Ryan for giving up his time today to appear on the show, and a big hand to the incredible team at Foundry Group who made this incredible week possible.
20VC: How 50% Of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, How To Build A Relationship Of Trust With Your VC and How Entrepreneurs Can Detect VC BS with Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings However, to the show today, and I'm delighted to say, we'll be featuring the legendary Foundry Group this week. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:53 Jason Mendelson So if you want to work with Foundry Group, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:05 Jason Mendelson You know, we at Founder Group, we've been together 20 years as a team almost, and we consistently invest in the same number of deals every year because we want to be time diversified, and we don't care if the times are great or horrible.
- ▶ 24:52 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate your support, and I cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's episode with Jason's partner at Foundry, Ryan McIntyre.
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- ▶ 24:09 Harry Stebbings Is it going to be the mega fund in 10 years' time, or are we capping it like a benchmark or a foundry?
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 30:48 Harry Stebbings It all goes to me, and I'd love to hear your thoughts, but I cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's episode with Lyndall Eakman at Foundry.
20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero
- ▶ 15:16 Paul Berberian What made the difference for us is we had one VC that believed in us time and time again, and that was Brad Feld and the Foundry Group. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 6:45 Alex Bangash So Foundry, First, um, um, Union Square, Spark, um,
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 4:39 Michael Kim Foundry, true.
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings The guest today was recommended by some stellar names in the business, including the likes of Jeff Clavier and Andy McLaughlin of SoftTech, and he was actually introduced by the main man Brad Feld at Foundry Group,
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 18:42 Harry Stebbings I think, I think one way to do that very, uh, efficiently and sustainably is by doing what like Brad Feld at Foundry has done in terms of what the Foundry team have done in terms of raising the same size fund every single time, not…
Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings However, back to today's show, and I would like to thank our friend Brad Feld at Foundry Group, 2 times in the scene
20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
- ▶ 24:28 Philipp Moehring Um, I, I had the, well, I have the pleasure of working with, um, Foundry Group on their syndicate at Angelist.
20 VC 069: Jeff Clavier, King of Seed Funding @ SoftTech VC on Brad Feld, Fitbit and Standout Startups
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings You're listening to episode 69 of the 20 Minute VC with your host, Harry Stebbings, and following on from our amazing interview with Brad and Seth at Foundry Group, I'm so delighted to welcome a true legend of the industry today in the…
20 VC 066: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Seth Levine: 'VC Is Not A Scalable Business'
- ▶ 0:04 Harry Stebbings Wow, what an incredible week it has been so far, and it just gets better and better as part of our feature of Foundry Group. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:05 Seth Levine And, and, uh, you know, over several conversations that evolved into what became Foundry. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:39 Harry Stebbings And the Foundry Group's located in Boulder, and a blossoming startup community, and 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:08 Seth Levine Um, and so it was, you know, it was hard, it was hard to raise that first fund, and it was funny, something happened, and there was a time in the middle of 2007 where I actually didn't think Foundry was going to come together, um, which… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:02 Seth Levine Those are just two, two of the several areas that we're most passionate about at Foundry.
- ▶ 25:07 Seth Levine Highlight of my career was probably when we closed the first foundry fund, and it actually was happening. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Harry Stebbings And that brings Foundry Group Week One to a close, but do not shed a tear, because we will be back in September to bring you Foundry Group 2 times in the scene
20 VC 065: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Brad Feld: Founders Should Be Obsessed, Passion Belongs In The Bedroom
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Of course, when the decision came, we chose the Foundry Group, and today I welcome Brad Feld. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:02 Brad Feld Yeah, I think it's stylistic as a result of how my partners at Foundry and I work.
- ▶ 16:01 Harry Stebbings And you talked there briefly about the equal partnership at the Foundry Group. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:06 Harry Stebbings However, the fun does not stop there for the Foundry Group and the 20 Minute VC, as on Wednesday, we will be releasing our amazing interview with Seth Levine, co-founder of the Foundry Group, alongside Brad Feld. 3 times in the scene