Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Seth went first and went to Europe and studied French with his family. Ryan went next, traveled all over Europe, and won the grand prize in a Lego-building competition. Jason went next, got married, and took a honeymoon for a month in Europe. Since 2000, Amy and I take a week off the grid every quarter.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2016

which showed that venture investment in Europe is roughly flat quarter on quarter (excluding Spotify’s $1bn raise). Moreover, we are still at a high level of investment when compared with any period except the last couple of years and the 1998-2000 bubble. Last week we had data from tech.eu

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

SailPoint also added six new delivery and reseller partners in North America and Europe, expanding its geographic reach and centers of expertise. “Our aggressive business expansion in 2010 was based on the tremendous market opportunity we see for identity governance,&# said Mark McClain, CEO and cofounder of SailPoint.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. We were it in Europe: B2B. We then had a piece in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Europe, we ran front cover of Tornado Insider (the top VC magazine in Europe at the time). Fame and adoration corrupts first timers.

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South Africa Europe Disintermediation Poland 310

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 11, 2013

Along with many of you, we at DFJ Esprit are doing all we can to help grow the venture industry and startup ecosystem here in Europe, and having written this post I believe more than ever that we will succeed. But I don’t think it will be easy.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In 2000, there was a total of 18 million Internet users in Latin America. In 2000, the U.S. Remember, it was almost impossible in 2000 for someone from Latin America to buy goods on the Internet unless he/she had the fortune of holding a credit card issued in the U.S. Consumer growth throughout the years.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 5, 2018

The problem has been that many LPs lost money in European venture in the 1999-2000, were nervous about making the same mistake again, and wondered if there was a structural reason why venture capitalists seemed to be less successful here than in the US. Efficient market theory has it that money should flow into that void.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Europe 92

gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Developers that exceed that amount will be charged $20 for each 2000-point increment, which works out to about 1 cent per transaction. Tech News and Analysis. gigabarb : Microsoft’s Ballmer to Apple: It’s on (again) [link]. Follow us on Twitter. -->. Speech recognition anyone? AT&T opens up Watson API. By Kevin Fitchard. 2 Comments.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. I always loved languages. Receiving an email was quit unique at that time and was well read.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It then spread across Europe to Australia and Canada. s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. Competitors: InformationBuilders , DataWatch.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, argues that blockchain offers particular value in parts of the world where people can’t yet trust their institutions — places such as Africa, India, and Eastern Europe. In November 2000, an index of 280 internet stocks was down by $1.7 Finding footing on shaky ground.

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South Korea Silicon Valley Sweden Africa 114

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia.

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In Germany alone, there was something like 85 active funds in 2000. Running around Europe trying to find lead investors for these businesses was priority number 1. It's so much harder to get rid of someone after you've hired them (especially in Europe) as opposed to waiting a big longer and doing your homework.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Europe Portfolio Germany 76

Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

Ultimately, we will face an inevitable erosion and shift of wealth– much like we are witnessing today in Europe.’” Jobs will not be created here. And wealth will not accrue here.

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Venture Capital America Initial Public Offering IPO 56

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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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Well, we have said, you kind of can't do that increasingly over the last 40 years, but it might really flip in the United States, certainly in Europe. So when you take a look at the major causes and decrease in firm value, and once again, I'm talking fortune 2000 firms, but I think it attracts to smaller businesses too.

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Technical Review Networking United States Artificial Inteligence 62

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2012

See you in Europe! Coming Soon: other international editions of The Lean Startup Germany - Muenchner (March 2012) France – Pearson (March 2012) Spain - Planeta / Gestion 2000 imprint (February 2012) Brazil - Leya / Lua de Papel imprint (first half of 2012) Japan – Nikkei BP (Spring 2012) Taiwan - Flaneur Co.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Instead of increasing the tax burden on these companies driving job creation, why not take full advantage of this evolution of the tax law to position France as the most attractive country for entrepreneurs in Europe? Indeed, France enjoys the highest penetration rate for broadband in Europe (32.7% for France vs. 26.5%

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France Europe Capital Gains Dilution 71

blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Ill leave it to Anne Thomas Manes to tell the full story some time as she was heavily involved in trying to talk Sun off the course they eventually, fatefully took - yes, she worked for Sun back in 2000 and argued nobly against the tide. Follow me as @webmink on Twitter and Identi.Ca

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Web Open Source Architecture Internet 51

Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

In my case, I grew up in an apartment in a country in Europe where we refer to apartments to as “flats” After an exhaustive search and writing down name after name it dawned on me. I should know as that is one of the services I offer my clients. The right name should be timeless, proprietary, easy to say and it should stand for something.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point. Europe Consumer. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. So were do we go from here? My Investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Getting on the front cover of the most prominent VC magazine in Europe (was called Tornado Insider). If you became a principal or a new partner in 2000/01 you had a good salary but as it turns out you were very unlikely to see a large upside “carry” return for quite some time. Winning my first million-dollar contract.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. Annualised, this would be 2.7x larger than last year!

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

I would have taken a crack at it myself, but the site is written in ColdFusion, and I haven’t touched CF since 2000. Bids came in and I found an excellent ColdFusion developer in Eastern Europe. Except it wasn’t a couple hundred. The quote from the original developer was $900. A week later the changes are done.

Software Review 56

Software Review Naming Email Internet 56

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

They claim to have already raised over $560 million for 1400 startups, primarily in the US and Europe. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.

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North America Accredited Investor Angel Investor Angel Groups 337

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

2000+ users. 600+ participants. 15,000€+ generated for passionate hosts. We officially announce that we have decided to stop working on Kicktable full-time. It has been an amazing journey. Why, you ask?

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Hosting Community Global Programming 115

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2010

So I spent 7 years of my education in Europe with other loonies who enjoy drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, heck, even music (which I have NO talent for, but I can play the iPod like Horowitz!). Not only that, but get this: my primary design tools are AutoCad 2000 and Paint Shop Pro 7. Argh, I just dated myself again.

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Jacksonville West Virginia Design Brunei 71

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Getting on the front cover of the most prominent VC magazine in Europe (was called Tornado Insider). If you became a principal or a new partner in 2000/01 you had a good salary but as it turns out you were very unlikely to see a large upside “carry” return for quite some time. Winning my first million-dollar contract.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

And I think just jumping back to taxis, if somebody had just, say taken a video of the taxi experience, you could look at the particularly, I don’t know, I’m sure you get to Europe occasionally and like to pay for taxis by credit card there. They will show you, “This one is a best seller.”

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Revenue SEO Texas Minnesota 58

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. I had just moved back to the US from living in Europe for 11 years. We had never purchased a house in Europe because we always knew we’d move home at some point. Fast forward to my second company.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights. He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!).

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

He co-founded Archiweb in 1998, an award-winning leader among web design companies in SE Europe, and envisioned the later-to-be stock agency in early 2000. With over 12 years of experience in design and new media, Serban has proven to be a skilled executive, successfully blending creative and executive abilities.

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Social Media Media Stock Clickthrough 231

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 13, 2011

Will was kind enough to introduce me to a SEAL classmate of his, Brendan Rogers (SEAL 1990-2000), who joined me and 20 NYC CEOs/founders from the tech scene last night to talk about the SEALs - the training, the planning and the operations behind their combat operations - as well as draw out some relevant lessons for entrepreneurs.

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Pakistan Entrepreneur Cofounder Europe 55

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

You know, I just got back from a hell trip we were just talking about, and you know, last year we took about two and a half months off traveled Europe and stuff. But you know, I, I live a pretty integrated life. Like, people always ask me, how do you do this? And it's based on this core premise called the buyback principle, right?

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Hiring Email Angel Investor Technical Review 75

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely. These phones were so over hyped. They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag.

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Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

They claim to have already raised over $560 million for 1400 startups, primarily in the US and Europe. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.

Angel Investor 241

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 241