In a time when many folks view Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn as the new darlings of the Internet, we still believe that email has been and will long continue to be one of the Internet’s few enduring killer apps. Several of us at Foundry Group have been deeply involved with the email industry as insiders and investors at a number of email-related companies, including early email service providers (Email Publishing and MessageMedia), email hosting companies (Critical ...

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In a follow up to our Who We Are post, Ryan and I thought we would compare VC life in Boulder, CO to that of the Silicon Valley. In some ways it’s remarkably similar and in some ways wonderfully different. For those of you who don’t know, Ryan and I met in 2000 while at the California offices of Mobius Venture Capital, became quick friends and even started a band or two. (Shameless Plug Alert: ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

Since the launch of the Foundry Group blog, we’ve written at length about our thematic investing style, some of the specific themes we are looking at (HCI, Glue and Implicit Web), our backgrounds and our view of how geography factors into our investment criteria. We have yet to write about any of the companies we’ve actually invested in thus far – something we plan to do regularly in this space. Not all of our portfolio companies ...

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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre

Every venture capital firm starts with people. In our case, Foundry Group consists of four experienced venture capitalists – Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson – who have been working together for the past eight years. We all met through our work at Mobius Venture Capital. Following is the story of what we have done and how we found each other. Brad started his career as an entrepreneur in 1987 by creating a ...

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Posted by: Brad Feld

Most entrepreneurs who have raised venture capital have heard the popular cliché: Venture capitalists only invest in their backyard. The venture press and popular media are full of interviews with venture capitalists who emphatically state they’ll only invest in companies that are within driving distance, live in the same area code/zip code, or belong to the same golf club. While there are often plenty of reasons for us not to invest in a given startup, geography ...

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