Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I still remember the first time I met Len, sitting in a restaurant in downtown Boston, wondering to myself “who is this guy and what does he want?” In 2000, I invested via Mobius Venture Capital in The Feld Group and joined the board. Len Fassler is one of the most amazing people I’ve had the honor of knowing.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

In the first three days, we were invited to apply for a startup accelerator program in Boston. All in a 2000 sq ft shared workspace. Some may call it opportunistic. I thought it was great & representative of typical Israeli chutzpah! Within a week, we were out for drinks with the crew at Techloft.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A few years ago, I did an analysis on the Boston-based companies that were worth more than $500 million in value, which I called Boston Unicorns. One of the (somewhat depressing) conclusions I made at the time was "there have been no multi-billion dollar valued tech companies founded in Boston in the last 13 years.".

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’m just pointing out my gut feel for approximate ranges of deals that I’ve seen with Silicon Valley having the highest valuations, NY / LA / Boston / Boulder / Seattle having valuations in a slightly lower range but comparable and sometimes significantly lower prices in markets that don’t have a healthy venture market.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

After Jim’s company was acquired, Len asked him who else he should talk to in the Boston area. Jim introduced us, and that led to lunch near our office in downtown Boston. I remember clearly a phone call on 12/1/2000 where Len called me from NYC. We then wandered around the Baruch College buildings talking some more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Floodgate / Information Arbitrage do “big data&# amongst other things), or Founder Collective (consumer & ad-tech knowledge of people like Chris Dixon) or geography (Founder Collective is in Boston / NY, Rincon is the best early-stage in Southern California). We were all drunk & stupid.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Boston, Finland and Paris). Dating back to Upfront II in 2000 (the single best performing fund in the US for that vintage) 2 of our 3 best returns were driven by companies with female founders / CEOs. We believe this isn’t just a market statement — it is where we will drive huge and differentiated returns.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. Just imagine the Sophia Robot , with a Boston Dynamics -like exoskeleton underneath it. The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

I actually was sitting, you know, I, until last month, I headed up a group in Boston that you've spoken to sales and marketing innovators. I think he has a goal of something like 2000 words a day. Get started for free @hubspot.com today. (18:35): And we had a speaker today on AI in marketing, and he was making a point.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. quite encouraging. Read More ».

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

What we refer to as the PC era (the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000′s) was not just the desktop phase era but more accurately a desktop corporate computing era. It was only in 2000 that a majority of of US homes had a computer. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. And for the record NextView’s office is in downtown Boston but my wife & I choose to live in the ‘burbs. Read More ».

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. I think you’ll enjoy this TWiVC video because the topics were so wide ranging.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). TechStars Impact on Boston. The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Led By Entrepreneurs.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I’ve witnessed more and more “playing startup” in recent months.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Evolving SEO is a boutique, four-person SEO team located in the Central Massachusetts, Greater Boston area. Click here to see how you can enter to win a full year of this tool ($2000 value). Evolving SEO is a boutique, four-person SEO team located in the Central Massachusetts, Greater Boston area.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

How about a person who moves here from Boston but keeps his Boston phone number on his SmartPhone and uses it to surf the web and order “software?” These are tricky but important details. At the other end of the size/complexity spectrum, it gets even worse. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5,

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. ” So, while Apple, Costco, and FedEx benefited, the PR would be more credible if the SBIC was trumpeting iconic companies created after 1990 or even 2000, especially where the lead investors (rather than follow on investors) had SBIC capital.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. "I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H. based in Waltham, Mass. Email Address: ); ADVERTISEMENT.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

We met through YEO in Boston in the early 1990s when we were each running our first company. In 2000, Mike co-founded AvidXchange and has been building it ever since. Besides thinking this was an outstanding business at first blush, there were three other things that caused us to consider breaking our rule about late stage investing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000. September 10, 2009 4:37 AM Dale B. Halling said. Our patent laws have been weakened reducing the value of intellectual capital. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

In Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, and other innovation centers across the country, entrepreneurs and their backers (who are not limited to venture capitalists) are all keenly aware that Washington’s addiction to enacting hasty, one-size-fits–all financial regulation will continue to have far-reaching unintended negative consequences for the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%). ARCH Venture Fund V (2000): 41% (11%). Commonwealth Capital Ventures III (2000): 110% (56%). HIG Venture Partners (2000): 44% (22%). Insight Venture Partners IV (2000): 169% (119%). Lightspeed Venture Partners VI (2000): 112% (80%). Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. And to be clear I split my time between Boston, New York, and SF and I’ve seen this across a broad swath of startups and individuals… both outside NextView’s portfolio and occasionally within it.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

E-commerce accounts for the vast majority of LL Bean’s revenue today ( it crossed 50% in 2010 though was as low as 15% in 2000 ), but because LL Bean is over a hundred years old and started as catalog & physical store retailer we typically don’t refer to it as an internet company. link] leehower. Your welcome. . Read More ».

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The wealth and experience created in these companies propelled Silicon Valley further ahead of its global competitors as the easiest place to found a startup, and Boston, the only meaningful competing start-up centre, fell by the wayside. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I’ve witnessed more and more “playing startup” in recent months.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2015

We probably went out to dinner somewhere in the North End, ate a huge amount of pasta and red wine, and then went to The Parker House in downtown Boston and drank scotch until we eventually stumbled back to 351 Mass Ave. . “Oil Prices Will Go Up Forever” Dave challenged me. I learned this lesson again, but in a more profound way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

And we've been able to expand to some very large school districts, including San Francisco Unified and Boston Public Schools. Some of our larger school systems, Boston and San Francisco, for instance, were, I think, incredibly on the pulse. I mean, we support roughly 2000 employees across cities in the US.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Our Generation Speaks – “Our Generation Speaks (OGS) is a Boston-based three-month summer fellowship program and incubator where emerging Israeli and Palestinian leaders create high-impact ventures. In OGS, fellows can expect to build for-profit and non-profit ventures.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 21, 2012

For perspective on 2012, we talked to Jeff Fagnan, partner at leading venture capital firm Atlas Venture and an investor in early-stage startups since 2000. Tech entrepreneurship used to be this coastal phenomenon of the Bay Area and Boston. AngelList is democratizing the angel universe across geographies.” ” Crowding In.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. These returns happened all over the place geographically (NOT all in the Bay Area or Boston), happened across industries, and most often happened without having any follow-on investment from VCs.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  We were fortunate enough to have customers like Boston Store, Carson’s, Penney’s, Sears, GNC – and they loved our exceptional customer service and ability to deliver a better value to their customers – and more sales and customer satisfaction to them. .   We had a customer and a value proposition.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Founders receive all the accolades and attention, but it’s employees number 2 through 2000 that turn a great idea into a great business. Julisa was most comfortable in Boston. She had grown up in NYC and wanted to stay on the East Coast to be close to family but loved the vibe of the Boston tech scene.

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