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Kent Goldman

Kent Goldman

Bubbling Things & Boring Things

I like boring. You should too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Jul 17, 2023

Jul 17, 2023

Kent Goldman

Unbundling Creativity & Skill

a late thought on the generative AI platforms

Jul 12, 2023

Unbundling Creativity & Skill

Jul 12, 2023

Kent Goldman
in
Upside Partnership

Metrist & Web Services Observability

I owe my career to web services. Without them, founders would be forced to fund and build out their backend infrastructure before they…

Nov 1, 2022

Metrist & Web Services Observability

Nov 1, 2022

Kent Goldman
in
Upside Partnership

Smallstep and a Fundamental Tension of Early Stage Venture Capital

In the early spring of 2016, when Mike Malone told me he was ready to start Smallstep, I was thrilled. He was someone I had been tracking…

Apr 28, 2022

Apr 28, 2022

Kent Goldman
in
Upside Partnership

Retain & Category Creation

There’s a trope common to fund raising pitches, “We’re building X for Y” where X is an admired company and Y is a new market or a newly…

Sep 9, 2021

Retain & Category Creation

Sep 9, 2021

Kent Goldman
in
Upside Partnership

Revisiting Rewatch

Last week, Rewatch announced their $20M Series A financing led by Andreesen Horowitz. Upside Partnership is both a proud Seed and Series A…

Jun 3, 2021

Revisiting Rewatch

Jun 3, 2021

Kent Goldman
in
Upside Partnership

Fundraising Commandments

As a pre-seed & seed investor, I see hundreds of pitches every year. I’m also constantly working with a handful of companies looking to…

Nov 11, 2020

Nov 11, 2020

Kent Goldman

A Past View of the Present

A year ago, I shared the following notes with Upside Partnership’s investor base. I’ve posted the excerpt below elsewhere but wanted to do…

Mar 3, 2020

Mar 3, 2020

Kent Goldman

Seed ≠ Traction

The inevitable pull on investors is to wait longer and to gather more data. This has been the underlying story behind the emergence of…

Mar 2, 2020

Mar 2, 2020

Kent Goldman
in
Upside Partnership

A Seed Fund’s Investment Checklist

With seed investments, failure is excusable. But having a poor process for making investment decisions is not. To help ensure that we are…

Nov 21, 2016

Nov 21, 2016

Kent Goldman

Kent Goldman

founder of seed (and earlier) investor @upsidevc. formerly a partner @firstround. gratefully @loroSF’s lesser half.

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