1999 Angel Investor Entrepreneur Internet 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell!&#. Investors are conformists by nature.
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Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
I believe the rise in angel investing is here to stay and the professionalization of this class (aka “super angels&# or “micro VC&# ) is a good thing for the VC industry and for entrepreneurs. But I fear that for most angel investors who invest over the long haul angel investing will not be a profitable endeavor.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 6, 2014
As exits have been flowing nicely again the past few years, many of the entrepreneurs I work with have experienced their first big exit. I was making plenty of money consulting and, while I was investing much of the money I made from the sale into new companies as an angel investor, the idea of living in Homer was attractive.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Every investor and entrepreneur knows there is something scary about the current startup economy. There is an enormous amount of angel capital available, while at the same time there is a small amount of Series A and a large and concentrated amount of late stage capital. It's actually a great situation for the ecosystem.
Start Up Blog
AUGUST 25, 2013
They made a trade sale in late 1999. Angel investors really look for entrepreneurs who want to build something, more than make money. Sydney has the 10th biggest Google engineering team in the world, yet it is the only the 28th biggest internet population. . Though he had a successful exit from it.
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