Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

We figured we could easily live for the rest of our life on consulting income and what we’d managed to save, even if none of the angel investments I was making turned into anything. So we packed up, moved from Boston to Boulder, and decided to build a life in Colorado, while I continued to invest.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials.

Naming 49

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). In 2002 Jerry retired from venture capital and went on his own personal journey for meaning.

Non-Compete 70

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

The 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade even featured a balloon created in its image. But over the course of the Edsel’s three-year run, Ford only managed to unload 118,000 of them. When Ford’s public relations manager, C. By 2002, New Coke was dead. million ad featured in the 2000 Superbowl. What Went Wrong?

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Sales IPO Texas Naming 126

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/29/2002: 82.5. 3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/29/2002: 82.5. 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.

Down Round 78

Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price. Or both things could be happening.

Balance Sheet 67

Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Unfortunately, Im a student in Australia so the possibility of travelling to the US isnt too feasible or affordable. It was a disaster.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

(I was at the University of Chicago when a bunch distinguished professors created UNext.com during the late 1990s — BIG BUST just like the startup I joined in 1999). And Coursekit, a nascent challenger to Blackboard in the market for learning-management software. There’s the Coursebook, a young online-learning start-up.

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Indiana Cofounder Chicago Venture Capital 54

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7 3/29/2002: 82.5 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. 3/31/1999: 49.7 3/29/2002: 82.5 One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Instead management was more comfortable executing to the plan. Lessons Learned.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. We were based in London.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 8, 2016

Since its inception in 1991, Aquascape has experienced incredible growth, appearing on Inc Magazine’s list of 500 Fastest-Growing, Privately-Held Companies in North America 4 years in a row (1999-2002). Greg himself appeared on the cover of Inc Magazine, along with a feature article about his leadership and entrepreneurial spirit.

North America 60

North America America Leadership Programming 60

Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

I started my business when my first book (on telecommuting) was published in 1999 (in the dark ages of virtual work!). Kirei was started in 2002 to bring beauty to the idea of sustainability in construction by selecting beautiful, functional sustainable materials for designers to use in commercial interiors.

Naming 133

Naming Nepal Entrepreneur LLC 133

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. That’s a really big deal, because that category of software, line managers and businesses have never actually used that software themselves. Actually — we have another one actually that is — well, it sounds esoteric, but it actually is very relevant.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

To date, no one has managed to provide a conclusive answer to this issue. 5; in Lund, 1999 ). Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). Dowding 1957, p.5;

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Omer : I have been online since 2002. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. l launched Afterdownload in February this year after doing some investments on my own.

Networking 111

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Omer : I have been online since 2002. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. l launched Afterdownload in February this year after doing some investments on my own.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Omer : I have been online since 2002. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. l launched Afterdownload in February this year after doing some investments on my own.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

Sagefrog Marketing Group, LLC was founded in 2002 as a two-person enterprise through the merger of two existing entities. As the business evolved more into HR and less about career transition, the business name became BoldlyGO Career and HR Management (the legal registered name). Thanks to Tom McPhillips, ATOMIC Design, Inc. ! #4-

Naming 94

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. It becomes too complicated.

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. They deal with energy management, security, physical device failures, etc.

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