Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 24, 2020

I started doing this in 2000 and it took me about four years to learn how to just turn off the switch completely for a week and then turn it back on. My one mistake was reading the Sunday New York Times first thing yesterday. It was the wrong “first new information” and it made me extremely anxious.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered. I remember clearly a phone call on 12/1/2000 where Len called me from NYC. I learned how to complete a negotiation, walk away from the table, be empathetic, and be available. Len – I love you.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Read Gotham: The History of New York City to 1898.) Had one plotted the trend over time, soon cities like New York were going to be buried under horse manure. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). TechStars Impact on New York. 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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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

In 2000, Mike co-founded AvidXchange and has been building it ever since. A few years after Amy and I moved to Boulder, Mike and Cindy sold their first company and moved to North Carolina.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2015

The last three months of 2001 were awful for me after an 18-month stretch from the peak of the Internet bubble — spring 2000 through Sept. I was in New York City after a red-eye from San Francisco, landing at 6 a.m. That was a relentless slide downhill on all fronts. 11 was the trigger point for this depression.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

I’m sitting at the breakfast table at Len Fassler’s house in Harrison, New York drinking a cup of coffee and chewing on a bagel. At the peak in the spring of 2000 Interliant hit $55 / share and was worth over $3 billion. billion market cap) in the spring of 2000. It’s the summer of 2001. I was exhausted.

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