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

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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Search innovation

BeyondVC

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. The Wall Street Journal.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. My parents were also small business owners. Thanks to Adam Karp, Lively ! workforce.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Exactly right!