Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Internet commerce technology has unleashed the capabilities of ordinary Americans to take matters into their own hands and craft—often literally—their own livelihoods. As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000. by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.

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Silicon Valley Non-Compete API Vertical 217

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.) My foundational moment, where I really learned the lesson, happened during the collapse of the Internet bubble in 2000 and 2001. But that’s not when I learned the lesson.

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Prospectus IPO Cofounder Internet 80

Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2016

Between 1996 and 2002 I was co-chairman of Interliant, a company I co-founded with three other people. We had just acquired a company (I don’t remember which one or in which city) sometime in 2000. Founder: “You told me the wall needed to be painted.” ” Brad: “I did?”

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Cofounder Founder Equity Acquisition 70

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. How did you go from VC to founder?

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Global Europe France Cofounder 62

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

From DeSantis : Investments in education-technology companies nationwide tripled in the last decade, shooting up to $429-million in 2011 from $146-million in 2002, according to the Na­tional Venture Capital Association. Last year Mr. Ferreira’s company scored a $33-million investment of its own in one of the biggest deals of the year.

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Indiana Cofounder Chicago Venture Capital 54

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights. He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). That is the surface change. Photo by LotusHead.

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Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127