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The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or …

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In 1999 we filed an S-1 to take Sage Networks public. I was a co-founder and co-chairman. The post The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or … appeared first on Feld Thoughts. We were planning to go public in the early spring, but in February we acquired a company called Interliant which doubled our side.

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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

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When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002.

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Book: The Startup Playbook

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Will and I made our first angel investment together in 1994 – in Raj’s first company NetGenesis (which went public in 1999). They share their tips, secrets, and advice in a frank, founder-to-founder discussion with you. I’ve known Will since 1984 and Raj since 1993.

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Founders – Use Your Down Round To Clean Up Your Cap Table

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I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. I have two simple rules for founders in my head from this experience. Deal with reality as a founder as well as an investor group and avoid this complexity – just clean up your cap table instead.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

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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. For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

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Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. This quote came from Patrick Lightbody, the CEO and founder of BrowserMob. That moment is now.

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How To Predict The Future

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In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.