Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth).

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Social media outlets are a popular way to promote nonprofit organizations. Social media platforms are easy to use and there are plenty of platforms to choose from. New apps are continually being introduced to help interconnect social media platforms which can help automate content and spread it virally using a few clicks.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. For each and every Internet company out there, mobile is rising as a percentage of all user visits. Likewise Priceline and Expedia rule travel, not some travel company that exited pre-Internet.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 16, 2018

After that, the nonprofits are great about engaging their donors through emails, social media, events, and PR. I worked on one of the first internet banking platforms in 1996 and it is now part of a major banking institution in the Midwest. What makes you unique? What is your unique selling proposition (USP)?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2012

Leading digital marketers from around the Asia Pacific and beyond gathered yesterday at ad:tech Singapore 2012 to share and discuss the continuing growth of the role of technology and digital media in marketing and advertising. He highlights that: · In 1996, 2/3 of world’s internet population was in the US.

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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. The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. The short answer is that the expectations of the great Internet boom vastly outstripped the actual activity. The total Consumer Internet market was 55 million people.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

The Millennial generation – which generally refers to individuals born between 1980-1996 – continues to fascinate businesses. Insurance providers should also utilize social media and other channels to communicate with Millennials and make it clear that they care about members. by Sally Poblet, CEO of Wellthie.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

As the threat of cyberattacks grows, training in safe internet use and responding to external threats is vital for all IT workers. In turn, social media scams are becoming more prevalent. Don’t make the mistake of thinking cybercrimes only happen to large corporations.

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Brandanew

JUNE 3, 2016

Since 1996 when this statement was made by one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, the three words have gone really, really viral. This kind of content marketing does little more than adding unnecessary, unpleasant ‘noise’ on the internet. Broadcasting your content across all social media channels.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Yesterday I read No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet. As a judge for the MIT $50k until 1996, there were always a lot of VCs hanging around. Akamai was an amazing pre-Internet bubble story. They entered, but didn’t win, the MIT $50K competition in 1998.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2013 – “Media and content is a hit driven business – we simply don’t invest in it”. (?????). 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 2008 – “RIP, Good Times”. Success Factor, Workday).

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Work as an industry thought-leader, representing and evangelising the company at conferences, on-line, off-line and with social media, and through working with and steering relevant industry bodies. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Prepare and test disaster recovery plans, and contribute to the broader business continuity plan.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2013 – “Media and content is a hit driven business – we simply don’t invest in it”. (?????). 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 2008 – “RIP, Good Times”. Success Factor, Workday).

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BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

I first met David in 1996 when he made his move from offline to online advertising as my prior fund invested in the initial round of 24/7. Looking back, one could easily say that is a no brainer, but if you lived through the bubble you have to remember how the Internet was a dirty word. Wow-what a past couple of days!

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. It is intentional.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. That’s what he knows best. And he argues that you need to have some “comparative advantage&# as an investor.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

So lots of companies went public - 1,272 of them from 1990 to 1996 - and Wall Street was very much about "long" promotion of companies' growth potential and as "analog" distributors of their stocks. Compare that to today's financial markets.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For those of you that don’t know, Longreads is a Twitter handle ( @longreads ), and a web service ( www.longreads.com ) that points to the best long form content on the Internet. Turning towards the Internet, Joseph Flatley’s Scamworld is a look inside the dark underbelly of “Internet Marketing.” Bonus: Q&A with the author.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The more I wrote about the oncoming mobile and broadband revolution, the more obvious it became that the print media was going to fight for attention with cheaper, faster publications. Blogs were part of the shift to a more intimate, frenzied, and on the go media landscape. I knew I had to leave Business 2.0 They may [.].

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

When I first moved to California from New York in 1996 I saw the success of juice bars. And with the internet in its infancy there was no social media marketing I could do, nor job board-type sites that I could post on. But I also realized that I needed a story to pitch the media. Understand the Media.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

Now today that might not seem that revolutionary, in fact you would expect to get most internet services by paying a monthly fee — but back then everyone ran their own servers. After all, I was running it on the computer my parents bought me, in my fraternity house, hooked up to the school’s internet connection. I had no costs!

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 18, 2007

After a Nokia boat cruise with many of the team that launched the awesome Nokia Internet 810 tablet (I will get myself one of those), I had the opportunity to go to a MySpace party to celebrate the opening of their San Francisco office. Anyway, I happened to be in San Francisco for a portfolio company board meeting and some other events.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Intuitive URL – Legacy companies, which were named before the advent of the Internet and subsequently did not have the financial resources to purchase their company name URLs, are forced to shoehorn their names into URLs they can acquire. Interview: Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media. |. 4 Comments. No Comments.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I first came across Bill when he was a Wall Street analyst and covered my company Open Market (IPO 1996). For purposes of this blog post, I am only focused on companies involving technology, whether software, Internet, health care or energy – which I’ll define as members of the Innovation Economy. Name Media ($50-60m).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2016

According to a 1996 HBR article , interactive marketing included “the ability to address an individual and the ability to gather and remember the response of that individual.”. Anyway, interactive advertising evolved as a method in attempt to bridge the dichotomy between new media and traditional advertising.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps.

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