Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2011

Sure – it’s had it’s ups and downs, but when I lived here from 1983 to 1995 the entrepreneurial vector was awesome. I spent the day at TechStars Boston yesterday meeting with all of the TechStars Boston 2011 companies. Boston has always been a great entrepreneurial community.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

October 17, 2011. The ’90s saw broader adoption by the middle class but even in 1995 only 28% of US households had a computer (US Census / Pegasus Research). © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Facebook’s IPO was obviously a debacle, and in the private investment sphere valuations from the seed through late stage have declined for the most part from their peaks in late 2011 through early 2012. The US government last shut down in 1995 and 1996.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. Led By Entrepreneurs. Have A 20 Year Commitment.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2012

Since 1995 he has spoken to over 500,000 people at live events around the world. He is the author of four books: Inspired People Produce Results – Leading Generation Me (2013), Getting Back Up When Life Knocks You Down (2011) , Be Last – Descending to Greatness (2008) , One Step Closer – To A Life Worth Living (2004).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Gerber (1995). The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2011). Reverse brands say no where others say yes. pic.twitter.com/LKVk6gx1d5 — Pe:p Laja (@peeplaja) December 18, 2020. On business building and strategy. The E-myth Revisited by Michael E. – Michael E. This post contains video, click to play]. – Eric Ries.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). Over 85% of CEOs said that going public was not as attractive of an option as it was in 1995. Number of U.S. Credit: Prof. Jay Ritter, for testimony before the Senate Banking Committee].

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/31/2011: 15.4. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8. 3/31/1999: 49.7.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

I had been living in Europe since the start of 1995, most recently in London. So that’s what’s on my mind this Independence Day 2011. The funniest experience I ever had on July 4th (US Independence Day) was in 1999. That was the year I spent July 4th in Tokyo, where I was living for 6 months.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 27, 2019

In 2011, alongside team members of PYP, Minshew founded The Daily Muse , which is now The Muse. Fertel agreed, and by 1995 the steak house has expanded to over 80 locations. Eventually, the team split up, dividing the company assets. By 2012, the website had 2,000,000 viewers, which surpassed Minshew’s expectations.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2023

24- Limitless Photo credit: Deniz Efe The 2011 movie Limitless is a great way to get motivated. It explains the series of events that took place before the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. It is an observer and problem solver. Entrepreneurs provide solutions that are deeply rooted in their stories.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

Back in 2011, we announced a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. Award #1 goes to sgtslogan who has been a member of our community for since April of 2011, and has participated in 151 projects in that time and been awarded once before. The March cS Award. Thanks, Tiffany!

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. 2010 was a year of firming and climbing out of a hole, but the tepid IPO market and general macroeconomic malaise seemed to linger until late in the year (similar to how 1995 felt). But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996?

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/31/2011: 15.4 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/31/2011: 15.4

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

SecondMarket was recently honored by the World Economic Forum as a 2011 Technology Pioneer. Monday, April 4th, 2011. Barry has been featured on CNBC, CNN Money, Bloomberg News and Fox Business News. Dan is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books on new technology trends, global economic issues, and popular culture.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Several years later, Bandon Trails opened in 1995 and the fourth course (Old Macdonald) is scheduled to open by summer 2010. ► 2011. (7). Grow organically - It took ten years of planning to get the first course open and nobody had any idea how many golfers would come. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blog Archive.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It means that guys like Mark Cuban were not simply lucky for starting a streaming video company in 1995 and selling it to Yahoo for $6 billion in 1998. This is one of the striking conclusions of a newly released working paper by Harvard Business School entrepreneurial finance professor Paul Gompers, et al. Think about that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

As of January 2011, there are a staggering 1.2 In fact, between 1995 and 2005, these same immigrants founded over 50 percent of the venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley, and are some of the key venture capitalists there as well. The average total fees for obtaining a patent are now way up to $38,000.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 25, 2015

RIM went from less than $5 million in revenue in FY1995 (February 1995) to $20 billion in FY2011, then back down to $3.3 They didn't upgrade the basic software that drove their devices until 2011, even with the dramatic changes that had taken place with consumer use of smartphones from their heyday in the early 2000s until then.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

See the March 2011 edition after the jump. As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For previous editions, click here. Unemployment fell to 6.1%

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011). After graduating from the ACL in London, he began his career in financial markets in 1995 as an equity and portfolio manager at Standard & Poor in London, taking up further posts at Alfred Berg/ABN AMRO in Moscow and PBS in Switzerland.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

In 2011, I was looking for my next challenge. Founded in 1995, the menu consists of bowl options with a base of white or brown rice, or freshly blanched vegetables, the choice of either Angus beef, all-natural chicken or flame broiled tofu, and topped with vegetables and chopped green onions. 37 – Looking for My Next Challenge.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2012

There’s no hard and fast start date for Generation Y, or the Millennial Generation, but 1980 through 1995 is generally considered the time Generation X gave way to Generation Next. Finish this TV show lyric: “Heroes in a half-shell…” If you can without cheating , you’re probably a Millennial. Get involved.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

A similar study conducted by Buzz Marketing Group and the Young Entrepreneurs Council (YEC) in 2011 found that among members of Generation Y, one in five planned to quit their day job and start their own business. The findings by CT Corporation aren’t exactly novel. Cracks in the system started to show up well before 2008.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I put up my Bodega Partners web site in 1995 and it served its purpose for a number of years, but I just didnt spend the energy to keep it current and finally just took it down last month. ► 2011. (7). Ive thought about it for the past 5 or 6 years and finally decided to do it this afternoon. Newer Post. Twitter Updates.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

1995 ; De Lange et al., 1983 ; Burt, 1959 ; Weildon, 1995 ) but these have been soundly criticised on points of methodology. 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ). 1995 , De Lange ), that shows no difference in legibility between serif and sans serif font on the web. 2001 ; Tullis et al., Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al.,

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. Welcome to the great Internet Boom of 2011. Approximately $90 billion has been invested by the venture capital industry from 2008-2010—less than half of the 1998-2000 level.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Advertising.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

In March 2011, the U.S. And in an August 2011 survey by the IPO task force of CEOs of companies in both the pre- and post-IPO stage, while every single one agreed a strong IPO market is important for the U.S. But she's making these comments while taking a victory lap.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 14, 2013

Back in 2011, we announced a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. The June cS Award. We’re not sure if you’ve noticed, but things are a little different around the crowdSPRING site lately. We’ve rolled out some major changes that we’re very excited about.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

In 1995 the founders set up the Pret Foundation Trust with the aim to alleviate poverty in the UK [17]. In 2011 it was estimated that 2.5 It has always fostered a culture of giving back. billion coffee cups were thrown away annually, but the figure it thought to be higher now.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. I think we’ll see more from the online lending space in 2011, so I may just have been too early on that part of the prediction! Now, on to my predictions for 2011: __.

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