Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market.

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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. This approach has already lead to some stunning results: In 2011, we hosted over 600 portfolio presentations to corporate customers and partners at our office in Menlo Park.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. I heard word that a new project was starting in Tokyo to work for the board of directors of a very large and well known Japanese electronics company to work on their Internet strategy looking at media, devices and networks. Both Tyler & I are Nihon -files.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. Certainly not the financial media, which has figured out that it is just a lot more fun to focus on the daily ups and downs of the market and personalities, than the more stuffy and far more ratings-unfriendly focus on return metrics.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

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. That “survival mode” meant “that they later must spend far more than they saved in order to recover from their prolonged absence from the media landscape.”. “If

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

How to build a portfolio of startup investments. How to add value to a portfolio company. What to do when your portfolio startup pivots. Bantuveris is a recognized national expert in boosting parent involvement in school and using social media for social good. How to source great deals. When should you think about exits.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

million on Kickstarter is a perfect example of how venture capital is being complemented by new approaches propelled by social media. Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. The success of the Pebble watch, which took in a whopping $10.3 Accelerators are also booming.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2010

Founded in Austin in 1999, Coremetrics is known as one of the high-end providers of web analytics, competing with Omniture and Webtrends. These channels span traditional outlets such as storefronts and catalogs and newer outlets including all forms of eCommerce and social media.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Ways to tackle this challenge, according to Amreet Singh and Yuva Viswanathan, founders of RedWhite Apparel, a small business specializing in long-distance cycling apparel in Singapore, are to use paid social media, expand complementary product portfolio, and cultivate great customer service that generates repeat sales in the long term.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. I am not interested in the opportunists, either as co-investors or as portfolio CEOs. And now I can’t open a tech blog without reading about the new bubble or the Series A crunch. I’ve seen this movie twice before as a VC.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

million on Kickstarter is a perfect example of how venture capital is being complemented by new approaches propelled by social media. Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. The success of the Pebble watch, which took in a whopping $10.3 Accelerators are also booming.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While in the media, the words recommendations and personalization are pretty much used interchangeably, they’re not at all the same thing. Collaborative filtering in eCommerce product recommendations was first implemented at scale by Amazon (they filed their initial patent for item-to-item collaborative filtering as early as 1999).

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. Browse by visual style, portfolio, budget, and geographic location. Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. Enter your email below: Content copyright ©1999-2011 37signals, LLC. Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. Apr 27 2010.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Thanks to Kent Lewis, Anvil Media. #4 I am applying my nearly 20 years worth of experience working with a portfolio of clients who are all women led and fall within the fashion, wellness and non-profit categories. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Seed Funding (Innofund). The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Or, is social media strictly for teenagers and staying in touch with your friends? Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Seed Funding (Innofund). The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. But the short answer is that the best intro is from a portfolio company of that VC or by other entrepreneurs whom that VC respects. GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. The life of entrepreneurship is definitely overly glamorized on social media.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. But that is the least of the social media mis-manners modern party hosts and attendees are likely to encounter. Why Register?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So a lot of incumbent business software companies did what a lot of big companies actually did and other industries, media companies after the dot-com crash, which is they said, “Oh, thank God we don’t have to worry about this Internet thing. Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio?

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I also was fortunate to gain a lot of insight on this topic from Don Charlton, Founder/CEO, TheResumator *, a ffVC portfolio company. You may think, “But I don’t use social media, and neither do my (conservative, old-school) potential investors!” ff Venture Capital portfolio company. Aggressiveness and creativity are the keys.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

We at Remagine Ventures completed a new investment deal, continued working with our portfolio companies and in general saw IPOs, startups fundraising and succeeding at unprecedented levels. If you want to listen to a very good response to the media bias, please watch this video. But, this is also not exactly new to Israel.

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