I absolutely love what I do—running a seed-stage venture fund (Founders’ Co-op) and startup accelerator (Techstars Seattle)—but neither is a job with a well-defined career path. Unlike later-stage or public market investing, where finance and quantitative analysis is a big part of the job, effective early-stage investing requires a combination of human, strategic, and operational … Continue reading “So You Want to Be an Early Stage Investor?”
Author: Chris DeVore
Chris DeVore is a general partner at Founder’s Co-op, an early stage investment firm in Seattle. DeVore has been an investor, operator and executive at both public and private companies, including Sapient Corp., Patagonia, and AT&T.
Chris received his B.A. in American Studies from Yale in 1990 and attended the MBA program at Stanford. Chris is a Seattle native and lives in Wallingford with his wife, Emily, and two children.
How Amazon Can Disrupt Smartphones and Take Apple & Google to School
The rumor mill is heating up on Amazon’s plans to enter the smartphone business—a fiercely competitive market currently dominated by Apple’s iPhone franchise and Google’s Android platform. Despite massive investments, Microsoft has so far failed to make inroads as a third platform, so Amazon will have to pull off some very impressive work on many … Continue reading “How Amazon Can Disrupt Smartphones and Take Apple & Google to School”