Feld Thoughts
JUNE 9, 2021
I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. For lessons from Matt and his Return Path management team, many of who are now execs at Bolster, you want to read Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 10, 2019
Over the years I’ve tried many different approaches to managing the clock. I try manage the clock better during a meeting when I’m in charge, and prompt others when I’m not. I don’t control the agenda in those meetings, so clock management is up to someone else. Today, I use a different approach.
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Feld Thoughts
JUNE 9, 2021
I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. For lessons from Matt and his Return Path management team, many of who are now execs at Bolster, you want to read Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 19, 2017
Between the spring of 2000 and the end of 2001, I had the worst, most stressful, and most painful business period of my life. I remember the trigger point being a 3/20/2000 article in Barron’s titled Burning Up: Warning: Internet companies are running out of cash — fast. I was too inexperienced in 2000 to understand this.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
In addition, there are the managing directors as executive bodies. In the VC sector, it is common to introduce a third body in addition to the shareholders’ meeting and the management. The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone.
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
In 2000, I invested via Mobius Venture Capital in The Feld Group and joined the board. In addition to helping me understand a number of fundamental things about technology at scale, I got exposed to the complexity of very large organizations, both from the top down and outside in. This took our relationship to a new level.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 8, 2021
I got sucked into giving some of my money to a money manager at Goldman Sachs and one at Lehman. They happily traded equities for me, which mostly just cost me fees in the end, although I covered it all with a crazy transaction into a weird Exchange Fund that GS created in 2000.
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