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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5 million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised).

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Book: In the Beginning…Was the Command Line

Feld Thoughts

Stephenson wrote it in 1999. But my Savant controller doesn’t have an * programmed into the Roku control section, so I had to do it app by app. Well, except the Baroque Cycle trilogy, which I’m saving for a special period of time to get lost in them, and from everything. For the second time.

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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the highlights of my time at Intuit was being part of a skunkworks team in 1999 that developed Intuit’s first payment service, the QuickBooks Merchant Account Service. Many years later, a group of Intuit employees were asked to develop a program that would give employees autonomous time as a way of increasing employee engagement.

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Top 3 Best Personal Training Certification Programs

YoungUpstarts

The first step towards a career as a CPT is to find a certification program to teach you the foundations of exercise science, coaching, and developing training programs. Earning recognition from an accredited CPT program will establish you as an expert and allow you to train others on a professional level.

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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Feld Thoughts

These are typically four to 12 week programs. In fact, I know a few companies that put computer science grads through these types of programs as an on boarding process. When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. I just saw my first proposal for a Coding School Rollup.

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Autonomous Vehicles: Can You Get There From Here? (Part 2)

Agile VC

Many of the sensors and systems for vehicle perception are made by large Tier 1 suppliers like Bosch and Delphi, but new players like Mobileye (founded in 1999 and now a $10 billion market cap public company) have also emerged. and interpret context or meaning (the red octagon with lettering 50 feet away is probably a stop sign).

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

Making this switch will allow companies and employees to save up to $12,000 per employee per year, while offering a better employee health benefit program for recruiting and retention purposes. suppliers of personalized employee health benefits, Extend Health (1999) and Zane Benefits (2006). And the sooner, the better.