Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 7, 2015
When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. A few companies got bought before the whole Internet-bubble thing fell apart, and we almost managed to get bought (for around $500 million, but that’s another story for another day.). I’m a big fan of coding schools.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 8, 2013
Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. manageability, scalability, reliability, security, and so forth). It’s a novel written in the 1980s about a plant manager who has 90 days to fix his cost and due date issues or his plant will be shut down. That moment is now. Long live DevOps!
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Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
In addition, there are the managing directors as executive bodies. In the VC sector, it is common to introduce a third body in addition to the shareholders’ meeting and the management. The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital. Michigan Cottage Cheese: Yoplait Yogurt. Taking all five at once is crazy.
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
A little over a year ago, he joined Techstars full time as one of the three managing partners – the other two being David Cohen and Mark Solon. Brown runs the organization day to day and Solon manages all the fund and capital formation activity. It’s a delight to get to work with both of these guys.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 19, 2014
How should one manage their own emotions and their own perspectives post failure? And the second VC fund I was part of, which raised $660 million in 1999, was a complete disaster. It’s easy to play the blame game and it’s easy to be extremely hard on ourselves. As the cliche goes, I learned a lot from these failures.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 17, 2010
Shared hosting was a great idea back in 1999 but most users of Web apps today require more control over upgrades, better access to backups, ability to move applications across cloud providers, and extremely high reliability. This week, Standing Cloud launched the Standing Cloud Partner Program for these customers.
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