Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Like many other startups, it had many ups and downs but the David’s created a very successful, profitable business that was acquired by ZOLL (a Boston-based public company) in 1999. Pinpoint was a self-funded company that was their first entrepreneurial endeavor.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

I was in Boston at the end of May and had three separate experiences in one day. The second was Techstars Boston Demo Day, showcasing 14 brand new companies. We started Techstars in 2006 and ran the first Boston program in 2009. This is dangerous, especially for founders.

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Boston Cofounder Early Stage Founder 70

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Do you recall how much seed funding Reid provided in the beginning (or how much total capital was invested before the VCs came in)? A lot has changed. link] leehower. quite encouraging. Read More ».

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.”

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Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

While people think a Southern drawl is smooth, and a Boston accent is “so Boston”, unfortunately you’re going to be judged harshly (and quietly) based on how you speak. When I was running an Israel-based company in 1999-2001, my location was a significant barrier. Watch your dialect – I’m saying though!

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Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Over the years of having digital agencies (I started my first digital agency in college with Raj in 1999!), In 2017 we held four events: Atlanta, New York, Boston, and Minneapolis. In 2018, we held six events: Atlanta, New York, Boston, Bloomington (IL), Raleigh/Durham, and London. Today, there is a staff of 3.5

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Atlanta Raleigh Minneapolis New York City 62

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

So we packed up, moved from Boston to Boulder, and decided to build a life in Colorado, while I continued to invest. .” But at almost 30, I just didn’t feel done, and in many ways I felt that I was just at the beginning of a new journey (which turned out to be true.)

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Alaska Widget Colorado Angel Investor 166

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. Now I gotta go and build it just to prove him wrong.

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San Francisco Incubator Silicon Valley Startup 285

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Bob invented Ethernet, founded 3Com (revenues of $5.7B), was the Editor of InfoWorld magazine, and was a venture capitalist at Polaris in Boston. Follow Chelsea on Twitter @ChelseaMcC #Policy #SmartCities #EisenhowerFellow Cindy Lo was one of the first people I met in Austin in 1999 when I came to work at Trilogy Software.

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Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C.,

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us acquisition.

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

In Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, and other innovation centers across the country, entrepreneurs and their backers (who are not limited to venture capitalists) are all keenly aware that Washington’s addiction to enacting hasty, one-size-fits–all financial regulation will continue to have far-reaching unintended negative consequences for the U.S.

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IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Recently raised $7 million from Atlas Ventures out of Boston. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Farb talks about how he did that. Total round was $2.5 Went on to present at TechCrunch 50. Raised $8 million from Benchmark and Integral. We debated whether he should have raised less money and how you should decide how much to raise.

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Founder San Diego SMS Los Angeles 214

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%). Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. And to be clear I split my time between Boston, New York, and SF and I’ve seen this across a broad swath of startups and individuals… both outside NextView’s portfolio and occasionally within it.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The wealth and experience created in these companies propelled Silicon Valley further ahead of its global competitors as the easiest place to found a startup, and Boston, the only meaningful competing start-up centre, fell by the wayside. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change.

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Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

From April 1999 until June 2006, Mr. Dahl served as the head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group, a leading private equity firm, where he was responsible for the firm’s investments in the healthcare field. Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served as co-head of healthcare investment banking in North America at Credit Suisse First Boston.

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Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 20, 2019

“In November of 1999, I opened my first restaurant in Boston. In terms of allocating or transferring the Income to the other accounts mentioned, this entire process will take maybe 10 to 15 minutes a week or bi-weekly, once its setup – and it will be so well worth it! Kasey’s Story.

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Cost Boston Sales Partner 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was intrigued when digital photography started taking off, but I didn’t buy my first digital camera until 1999, when my daughter was born. It really started in Boston. Santiago used to be a designer at IDEO and was nervous about a big meeting he had in Boston. We’re a young community with high hopes.

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Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” Where Uber failed was its inability to commit to Element 3 — a unified executive team.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Early Stage Software Review Employee 36

Pascal's View

MARCH 14, 2011

BoardSpring has so far organized one event, a meeting in Boston in February attended by about 50 people. now Thomson Reuters, and then in 1999 co-founded NeoCarta. The firm raised a lone $300 million fund in 1999 that it continues to manage via Collins and three other managing directors from offices in Wellesley, Mass.,

Government 37

Government LLC Boston Venture Capital 37

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Mokady believes that partnering with a Boston-based VC would have helped CyberArk address its talent problems more effectively because the VC would have vouched for the company. Cohen said that moving the headquarters to the United States had been talked about for some time after the company was founded, in 1999.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

4)      Boston.   With 14 teaching hospitals and world-class research and entrepreneurship factories like MIT and Harvard, Boston has arguably emerged as the top life sciences start-up environment. 

Private Equity 20

Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Baptiste , a new writer at OnStartups and local Boston entrepreneur. Consumer RSS: 1999-2010 - Venture Chronicles , September 11, 2010 paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter. My firm is SKMurphy. This is the first article from Jason L.

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Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. We started innocent in 1999 after selling our smoothies at a music festival. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world.

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