Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). A cliche I’ve heard many times is “Wall Street Always Wins.”

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. And Jonathan has done artist management agency WISEgroup.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. Unfortunately, a series of bad judgments followed, including firing the company’s long-time ad agency, laying off 10% of its corporate staff and thousands of middle managers, and ridding the stores of sales and discounts.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Once you’ve posted something on the internet, it can go viral within seconds, leaving no room for a do-over. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 offers certain immunities for internet service providers that may lend some form of protection from allegations of copyright infringement, tortious conduct, or defamation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. For starters we saw a huge influx of inexperienced managers enter the VC industry proving clearly that being a VC is not a purely quantitative job. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. The Funding Problem.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998. The phone rings - it was the staffing manager: "Philippe, come in my office, your life is gonna change!". internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Happy ending?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The year was 1998. But the real asset became obvious to me at almost exactly five PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. The background for my story.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. Given this, I wonder what we will be looking at 2 years from now?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

Second, they defined these audiences by funnel stage, location, on-site behavior, and Internet service provider (ISP). Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. Ad creative was also split tested. Image Source).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

As people get more and more used to piloting, they will start to ask themselves “why wait until the last minute?&# (See Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter Drucker for more on this thesis.) In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

As I write this, Congress is teetering on the brink of passing the most disastrously ill-conceived law in the 18-year history of the commercial Internet, SOPA. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation. (Social entrepreneurs take note!)

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

In High school I made flyers telling everyone I was going to own a hair salon that held fashion shows and in college I majored in Business Management. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. I always loved the world of business.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

I’m a tech co-founder in internet startups and after you’ve co-founded a few ventures you definitely have a much more of an appreciation for what’s required to make a startup work at the technical level – it’s certainly not just a software engineer. Friday, August 20, 2010 Stephanie says: I can testify to this!

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

This ubertrend spurred a host of subtends, including reality shows, like MTV’s The Real World , which debuted in 1992; Celebrity Worship Syndrome , coined in 2003 and propelled by “pixel paparazzis;” HDTV in 1998; helicopter police chases, including the infamous 1994 O.J. ” The trend is dubbed “ gastroporn.”

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

I am going to share this with our whole team because our clients NEED this to be managed more completely and we NEED to get better at it… period! ’ Outside of that, it’s not necessarily applicable to attempt to use 20th century Management Thinking (i.e. Donna Svei. May 10, 2010 at 10:09 am. Would add: 1. SIG posting.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. He serves as a Managing Partner of both funds. He currently holds NASD Series 7, Series 24, and Series 63 licenses. Among his pathbreaking books are Yen!

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. It was the last day of the third quarter of the year and we hard more deals we needed to close to finish the quarter strong and report numbers to Wall Street that justified our high-flying profile as a recently public Internet commerce software company. Expense management.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. 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. Akamai: The Present.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. The very worst kind of manager is the one who feels threatened by his team. Right now, somewhere on the Internet, there is a discussion board or a chat room where people are arguing about how much education is needed to be a software developer.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

2) What was the magic of the foursquare system that drove rapid adoption that so many other consumer Internet companies fail to achieve? A product-obsessed management team suddenly had to transition to become an operational scale management team. Monetization. Now there's a future venture capitalist in the making!

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Despite this, it’s hard to think of good examples of disruption to asset management in the classic, Clay Christensen sense.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 5, 2010

In summary, I went online in 1998, played with the web for two years, spending my time on newsgroups, forums and surfing for information on the things I was interested in at the time. Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And without missing a beat, he said Jeff Bezos, because Jay Bezos was not only a visionary, but he was also creative and invented so many mechanisms that startups and managers and leaders use today. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): So plus John, look, we're storytellers.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. We managed to create a single software that is so powerful that we can optimize any business whether it is manufacturing, retail, transportation, oil and gas, metals or anything else. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry. 

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I went to the University of Queensland and studied for a business management degree. I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors. Mr. Matt Stewart , Senior Marketing Manager, LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE ). Mr. Ned Tobey , VP Product Management, Q2 Holdings (NYSE: QTWO ).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

The nation quickly managed to transition from an emerging market to a developed market, as opposed to Qatar or Taiwan. Innovation is promoted in various fields, like Internet, cybersecurity, and computer vision. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured. On the one hand, the population is educated.

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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. The middle managers we talked to at catalog companies saw the Web not as an opportunity, but assomething that meant more work for them. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

In my field—online English language teaching—there are a lot of literal business names out there: Joe’s Internet English School, Learn English Online via Skype, etc. Back then, around 1998, I had a small graphic design firm and I brokered printing for my clients. 1- Suggestive and evocative name. Photo Credit: Rob Sheppard.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

They’ll likely need to a dose of anxiety to remind them the problem they’re trying to solve is very real, but also need signs of relief and reassurance that the problem is manageable and worth fixing. 1998) – 120,000+ customers. 1998) – 500,000 customers . GetResponse (est. Constant Contact (est.

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