PinnedPublished inFoothill VenturesWhat we invest in at Foothill VenturesWe’re big fans of transparencyOct 31, 20241Oct 31, 20241
Published inFoothill VenturesHarvard admissions, VC investing: identifying “special” vs. “good”When I first started investing full-time, I had an issue that is very common to new VCs, especially those who were entrepreneurs…Mar 5Mar 5
Published inFoothill VenturesThe photonics momentThis post is a follow-up to a broader post that covered our investments from AI applications all the way down the stack through compute and…Feb 13Feb 13
Published inFoothill VenturesMoving from Affinity to Hubspot: the journey that keeps on giving (for better or worse)At the beginning of last year, we made the difficult decision of moving from Affinity to Hubspot as our internal CRM/ deal tracker/…Feb 3Feb 3
Published inFoothill VenturesFoothill Ventures investment cluster: “AI to Infrastructure”Foothill Ventures has a broad mandate: we invest in software, frontier tech and life sciences under one roof (to look at everything we…Nov 4, 2024Nov 4, 2024
Published inFoothill VenturesSome very quick thoughts about solo founders vs team foundersUpfront disclaimer: we’ve backed lots of solo founders. And many of them have been extremely successful. The below are just some ideas to…May 5, 20242May 5, 20242
Published inFoothill VenturesMy advice to everyone about breaking into tech/ VCI’ve reached an age where I’m often asked for advice on various career paths (which just means that I’m pretty old). I had a bit of a…Apr 18, 2024Apr 18, 2024
Published inFoothill VenturesThe case for a “BizOps” person in an early stage start-uptl;dr: most highly technical start-ups are all engineers through the Series A, when they hire their first sales/ commercial leads. MBAs/…Nov 1, 20232Nov 1, 20232
Published inFoothill VenturesPaying it forward: the accumulation of small kindnessesLast week, I was a panelist at the RAISE Global Summit, a conference for “emerging fund managers” and LPs who are interested in emerging…Oct 26, 20221Oct 26, 20221