During our careers, we’ve invested in a number of companies that sell consumer-electronics devices. In the past several years, we’ve invested in companies like Sling Media, Pogoplug, Smith & Tinker, Pie Digital, Sifteo, and most recently, FitBit and Orbotix. In recent years it has become dramatically less expensive to design, build, and bring a consumer [...]
Brad and I were lucky enough to see the Bilski argument at the Supreme Court. We were both beyond impressed and each wrote about our experience. Jason’s recap is here. You can find Brad’s summary here. We are hopeful that as a result of this case, business method patents will be forever dead and gone. [...]
At Foundry we organize our thinking about investing into what we call “themes”. The themes we pursue are horizontal in nature and are driven by underlying technology protocols and standards or emerging market trends and customer needs. Examples of the investment themes we are currently pursuing include Human Computer Interaction, Implicit Web, Email, Glue, and [...]
Foundry Group attended the latest incarnation of CES this past week and thought we’d give some of our thoughts on the show. In no particular order, here is “What We Learned at CES.” Don’t buy a television for the next 6 months. This is certainly counter to what retailers and producers would want us to [...]
It’s a scary thing to think of these two spending time together, but the political machine and the music industry have become strange bedfellows as of late. Specifically, we’ve been following the royalty negotiations and legislative actions surrounding Pandora. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Pandora, it’s an Internet music streaming company that [...]
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