Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

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. Act I begins with IT Operations, where we’re supporting a large, complex revenue generating application.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2021

by Terry Monroe , founder and president of American Business Brokers & Advisors (ABBA) and author of “ Hidden Wealth: The Secret To Getting Top Dollar For Your Business “ The vaccine for the COVID-19 virus recently began shipment.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Johnni Kjelsgaard Founder and CEO at GrowthAfrica. John Kieti Team Lead at m:lab.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. approx 1999-07. John Frankel started as an individual angel investor in New York in 1999. Enter Dave: Angel investing is a great way to make a lot of money. 1961- 1996.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Neil Waterhouse, founder and host of multiple Aussie eBay and E-Commerce Sellers Meetup Groups, advises start-ups to focus on proven products with a track record. Row Murray – Founder, and Digital and UX Director of Kenobi and Board Member on Vic ICT4.Women. Nathan Huppatz – Co-founder, Costumes.com.au 5 Stars Irene!

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. I don’t know this world on an intimate, personal level. I have no idea exactly what it takes to get inside that inner circle.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. Thanks to Roy Morejon, Enventys Partners ! #10- 10- From a naming contest.

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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. 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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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 6, 2023

. “ Right now, we are in a moment where many founders find themselves confronting problems they didn’t create but must tackle. “ What makes this worth reading is that Charles has empathy for founders (he’s been one), and will continue to show up as one of their investors in a supportive manner.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2020

In 1885, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) began mining operations of silver, zinc and lead in Broken Hill, NSW. Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999. In 1804, the first permanent coal mine was established in Newcastle. The Boom of Real Estate in Newcastle.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2018

by Kerry Alison Wekelo , managing director of human resources and operations for Actualize Consulting and author of “ Culture Infusion “ The recent suicides of iconic fashion designer Kate Spade and internationally renowned chef Anthony Bourdain renewed attention on a disturbing trend in the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

First, you need to be certified with the Health Insurance Marketplaces in the states where you want to operate. He is also the founder of six companies including the two largest U.S. suppliers of personalized employee health benefits, Extend Health (1999) and Zane Benefits (2006).

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Software Review Employee Retention Government 206

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2018

According to Investor's Business Daily , even though IPOs in 2018 through July were up nearly 39 percent from last year, the total of 115 companies so far is still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. Most startup founders voluntarily exit or are pushed out, and the fun is gone.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Liz Dobrinska, founder of Innovative Images, joins Episode 6 of the Profit first Podcast. Liz Dobrinska, founder of Innovative Images, provides consulting, marketing communication, website and design services to a diverse number of clients including universities, private clubs, food service, manufacturing and technology companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Before that, Baughman was with Marvell and Intel, joining the latter after nine years at Dialogic Corporation, which was acquired by Intel in mid 1999. Beatty, as Vice President of Manufacturing, brings 18 years manufacturing and business operations experience to Calxeda.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. 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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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. He was to head up UK operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. Marc and I discussed this often.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). Evgeny Glariantov , the founder of a blockchain project FREED , is an expert on the monetization of game projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I look for firms in which some of the partners (my partner) have operational experience and know what it’s like to wake up every day and be an entrepreneur. I think good VC’s really do make a difference.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We invested in the company in 1999 during the ascension of the Internet bubble. We loved the two founders, Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice, but knew very little about marketplace businesses or the home improvement category. We learned this dynamic in the early 2000’s with our investment in ServiceMagic.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo. Our third co-founder, Aron Yechezkel, joined us at the end of 2015 and we have been working together since then, and now as Sceenic. What are the goals for Sceenic for SXSW 2018?

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Brown was one of the four co-founders of Techstars (with Cohen, me, and Jared Polis). 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# I still have to get sales, operations, finance, HR & corp dev right to win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. As for the final ‘P’, Miller recommended that founders simply live in a place they love.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. 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. Naming a Business. How to Incorporate. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. Franchises. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Success Stories.

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