Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. Both operating executives and top advisors count. Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. Timing is critical.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 27, 2020

There is much debate as to whether Peter Drucker actually said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company in March 2000. Regardless, the quote is used extensively these days to emphasize the importance of how a company operates over the why. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” .

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

5. We then went back to talking about how to choose the space in which your startup is operating. Lastly, he touched on the distrust of equity following the bubble in 2000, and that, particularly on the East Coast, people need to see good exits and good exits that reward employees. be the guy that provides them quotes”).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). 16 years later it’s just another software company. Ballmer went on to run Microsoft for the next 14 years.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). 16 years later it’s just another software company. Ballmer went on to run Microsoft for the next 14 years.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

On the other hand, if you receive a payment of $2000, that’s considered income or revenue, you’ll generate positive cash flow that can be reinvested in other areas. . Working capital is the overall operating money that your company has available after debts are removed. What is working capital?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

Here are a few thoughts about operating in uncertainty in a pandemic. Revise your sales revenue goals, product timelines and create a new business model and operating plan – and communicate them clearly to your investors and then to your employees. And what’s in my lifeboat?”.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000. After all, napkin math tells us that if requests take 200 milliseconds, only five requests per second would saturate a processor core. Those requests had better be worth it!

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

Apart from having different ways of thinking about ‘growth’, startups seek financial investment differently than most small business operations. Startups tend to rely on capital that comes via angel investors or venture capital firms while small business operations may rely on loans and grants.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

No one would suggest eliminating smartphones from our day-to-day lives and business operations, so following some simple mobile security guidelines can make all the difference in protecting your private information. Don is helping evolve research operations and research technology in line with the growth of Malware. formerly CA).

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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.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Key Takeaway: The Chief Operating Officer is the second in command to the CEO – they’re the go-to person that should be running the business. Questions I ask Cameron Herold: [2:27] Are there some things in those early days of figuring operations out that really stuck with you? [3:38] Cameron Herold (02:35): Uh, something changed.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. She is currently an Operations Coordinator at Solar Winds and volunteers for Latinitas. Austin, this time?—?to

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Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2018

It has operated for the past two years in Peru’s largest juvenile detention centre with an amazing success rate. It began working in Peru 5 years ago and is at the moment training and finding jobs for 2000 vulnerable teenagers for free per year. An ideal team to tackle a project as complicated as this one.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. I feel like I know him better personally since he's always in the chat room during the show asking questions). Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Remembering the insanity before 2000. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Gaining users at a rate of 50% a month, the company has yet to find a revenue model that will pay for the increased costs of infrastructure needed to support the growth, let alone the fixed cost of operating the enterprise.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

billion market cap), mid-sized (NetBotz with millions in revenue and funding), and small (sub-$1m operations like us). They were the disruptors, but they didn't profit from the disruption. There were many competitors, both huge (APC with $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2011

Good implementation requires a plan, and a good plan and good operational decisions come from good people. People and operational excellence have to converge in every business, large or small. I found a good summary of the relevant keys to business operational excellence in a new book by Faisal Hoque, called “ The Power of Convergence.”

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Altgate

MARCH 3, 2011

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The Real Reason Google May Fail Operating System for the Classroom Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin By now most people have heard of Sal Khan and the Khan Academy.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

We all need some disturbance to keep us operating at our potential. We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000. I heard this morning at All Saint’s Episcopal in Atlanta this excerpt from a pulpit prayer: “Disturb us, Lord, when our dreams come true because we dream too lowly.” Think about that.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 18, 2013

The 1970-2000 mantra that a simple focus on shareholder value was the best way for companies to generate success is a good example. The problem is, if anything, more pernicious in business because the advice of most business gurus includes is backed up by some level of causal logic as well as observed correlations with success.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

The company has been in operation since the year 2000 with its headquarters in New York City. It is now operating in more than 150 countries across the globe. By the close of 2018 financial year, it had an operating income of 4.829 billion Euros and a net income of 2.158 billion Euros. And GTE Corp. AT&T Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

I know because I did this in early 2000. Most app-to-app products are inter-operable, Apple isn’t. Don’t Blow Your Wad Early – There is a temptation of startups to announce that they’re “first&# at something so they rush to market with announcements. But life doesn’t end. It’s a narrow product.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. They are operators, through and through.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

All the way from 1993 to 2000. A mid-level IT sales executive, who works with an American telecom player’s Asian operations and has previously worked with Indian IT companies like HCL says that in the last five years, Indian companies have woken up to this. “I Enter outsourcing. Enter India. Image via JES AZNAR/AFP/Getty Images.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. First, you need to be certified with the Health Insurance Marketplaces in the states where you want to operate. For many, it’s been a struggle. But the Affordable Care Act has changed the game.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). In the early 2000’s, he launched several games, whose audience is over 30 million active users. The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you don’t know Scott, he was the co-founder and CEO of ExactTarget (2000) – one of the original SaaS companies. Are always learning is the essence of being a leader in a super high growth rapidly changing world which most SaaS companies operate in. I put him in the awesome category.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2014

President and CEO of SurePayroll Michael Alter is responsible for the overall business model development, strategic planning and day-to-day operations for SurePayroll, a wholly owned subsidiary of Paychex®. Others Michael Alter outsourcing payroll service provider SurePayroll'

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

It can be difficult to locate information about government assistance programs or find and complete the correct forms for taxes or business operations. design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service). In particular, small businesses and exporters have a fundamental problem navigating the Federal Government’s myriad resources.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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