Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Put a willing and forgiving exit market following any investment period and you get spectacular returns.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This is a huge recruiting year for data.world as we’ve found our product-market fit in the enterprise. I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). in honor of my mother.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Mobile Marketing Comes of Age: Retailers finally began to see the promise of location based applications and consumers changed their shopping behavior using their mobile devices. Discovery, in contrast to search, took center stage as Pinterest displayed hockey stick growth (and raised VC money near a $200M valuation in late 2011).

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Bringing Innovation to Market. a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Finance | Tuesdays.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I’m surprised how few people talk about valuations, term sheet terms, how much to pay recruiters, etc. I once mentioned this idea to a fellow SoCal VC when I told him I wanted a CIC in LA and he said, “Co-location is dead. Uh, I guess he won’t be co-sponsoring a technology lab in LA with me then?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . That’s not what we do.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

From the perspective of best practices, we will address questions such as: How to assess opportunities (idea, team, valuation). Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. Karen Bantuveris has 15 years experience as a consultant in customer centric- leadership development, marketing strategy and business process design.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 25, 2013

NetMind: Alan was a cofounder of this startup, which he said never really made money. They made a trade sale in late 1999. When asked how one should value a company that doesn’t make any – he said the ‘Cisco Valuation Model’ is best. So hard it is only now becoming functional 30 years later.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I followed her writing and bought her AOL book back in 1999. Just as importantly, she was an incredibly loyal and supportive friend and co-worker during really difficult times. Later this month on the 28th, my co-hosts will be Marissa Campise and Sarah Tavel. Both of these women had a significant impact on my career.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Venture Capital Valuation 112

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I’ve been founding and helping run technology companies since 1999. Try to ride an existing wave vs. creating your own market. Co-locate as best possible but be willing to travel to remote offices to make multiple offices work. Don’t choose your investors based on valuation. Fab.com Bradfords Blog Fab Feed.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

As a result that led me to start my own business and co-write the bestseller, “ Unboss ”, because I felt like there was a need for organizations that were more independent and “free-spirited”. Question your level of ambition and decide on your valuation and values. I’ve also always hated organizations that are too “structured.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. True story.) million were enormous.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Next, we have Honor Lydon, co-founder and Executive Editor of BostonChefs.com. It is a digital marketing network that connects chefs, diners, and brands through a shared passion for food and drink. link] [link]. BostonChefs.com is THE hub for all things’ restaurant in and around Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. million at a $15 million pre-money valuation. It was December 1999. Let me start with a story.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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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.  4)      Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. That’s why it is a tried and true marketing scheme. Warren Buffet, 1997. You know what customers like more than free stuff?

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