Remove 1999 Remove 2005 Remove Internet Remove Web
article thumbnail

Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S.

article thumbnail

How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

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).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0

article thumbnail

Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. 1:20 and they turned up like clockwork.

article thumbnail

I Encourage Entrepreneurs To Ignore The Word “Bubble”

Feld Thoughts

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So, in hindsight, the great Internet bubble of 2001 was very powerful and useful to me, even though it was very painful. I remember it well as 2001 was easily the most challenging year of my business life.

article thumbnail

Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services. annual GMV.

article thumbnail

It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized.