Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

Last night, at the Aspen Entrepreneurs event, I was asked to describe several failures and I rolled out my story about Interliant, which, for a period of time (1999 – 2000) appeared to be hugely successful before going bankrupt in 2002. A few days ago, Fred Wilson wrote a post titled Capitulation?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004. I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

My whole world blew up in 2001. The depressive episode only lasted three months, but the s**t show continued through 2002 as most VCs and Internet companies suffered a massive collapse. While my world started to settle down in mid-2002, the rest of Mobius started to more aggressively fall apart. There was no joy anywhere.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2015

A: After I became depressed for the second time, in my mid-30s — in 2001 just after Sept. 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. Q: When did you start to be so open about it? 11 through the end of the year.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Dougherty and Lawton’s journey as medics started soon after September 11, 2001. Lawton (serving from 2002–2009) and Dougherty (serving from 2002–2013) were both stationed in Fort Hood, TX and met during a medical training course. Both of us lived right outside the Pentagon, so when the plane hit, it was really gripping.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. Led By Entrepreneurs. Have A 20 Year Commitment.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

1998 saw the 300 th pub open and its rapid expansion saw them reach 500 pubs being open by 2001. The 600-mark was reached in 2002 as the breakfast revolution got underway as all pubs opened six days a week to serve the first meal of the day.

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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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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its chaos and insanity melds into a working city that was predicted by the architect Rem Koolhaas (with the Harvard Project on the City) in the 2001 book Mutations when he said that Lagos was a city of the future and one that Western cities would eventually base themselves on. But somehow Lagos works. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. It was decimated because of lack of performance between 2001 and 2009, just like much of the rest of the VC industry around the US. Rather, it’s an example of the difference between signal and noise in any kind of reporting around the VC industry.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 25, 2003

Its latest survey calls for an increase of 2% spending for 2003 versus a December 2002 survey which forecasted a decline of 1.1% The fact that most of my companies are close to budget is a far cry from 2001 and 2002, years plagued by numerous reforecasts of revenue and expense projections. for 2003 spending.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/30/2001: 26.3. 3/29/2002: 82.5. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2001 and 2002 I learned a brutal set of lessons, including experiencing that $100 million of paper money going to $0 when Interliant went bankrupt. And, as a VC, I experienced a VC fund that was quickly worth over 2x on paper that ultimately resulted in being a money losing fund.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

From Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed : In inflation-adjusted dollars, total state support for the top 101 public universities declined by 10 percent between 2002 and 2010, with nearly 75 percent receiving cuts. State funding declined as a share of these universities’ budgets from 28 percent in 2001 to 19 percent in 2009.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), Lefkofsky launched InnerWorkings, a business-to-business online printing firm, in 2002 and took it public in 2006; it’s now run by CEO Eric Belcher, ’95.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This Seattle-based agency has been “creating kick-ass brands since 2001,” according to its website. MCFaul+Day was founded in 2002 by John McFaul in Portsmouth, England. Urban Influence. Notable Clients: AIGA, Alma Hotels, BCD, Betway, BMW, Canal+, El País, EMI Music Spain, Future Designs, Gap Inc., McFaul+Day. courtesy of mcfaul+day.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Kenyatta Cheese. Lynne Johnson. Matt Haughey. Maura Johnston. Natalie Podrazik. Rafe Colburn. Sasha Frere-Jones. Susan Crawford.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/30/2001: 26.3 3/29/2002: 82.5 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3 3/31/1998: 30.8

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 2001: Decimalization (further loss of economics to provide market support for small companies), by reducing minimum commissions from 12.5 2001: Decimalization (further loss of economics to provide market support for small companies), by reducing minimum commissions from 12.5

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Babbling VC

JUNE 15, 2010

I rode down the whole VC cycle from 2000 to it's doldrums in 2001 and 2002. Call it what you will. So now what? Well, the first 10 years couldn't have been better timing-wise. It was great to be involved in hindsight in all the restructuring and downsizing that took place.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Peter: I feel like the industrial design guys were so happy about this kind of thing in 2002, 2004. That’s some 2001 stuff right there. John: Wearable tech wasn’t on my radar at all and it actually was the Apple watch that made me look at other wearable technology. Jonathan: Interesting. Okay, so Peter, your thoughts?

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BeyondVC

MARCH 23, 2004

There were a number of attendees who were here during the past few years and their businesses raised a fair amount of capital and somehow they managed to survive the nuclear winter during the 2001-2002 period. What allowed them to do it? What are the challenges they face now?

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 19, 2009

  In 2001/2002, it was Tyco’s CEO Dennis Koszlowski spending $1 million of shareholder money on his wife’s 40 th birthday party (mine is coming up this summer, by the way, and I don’t think it will cost my LPs very much at all, really).

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 11, 2016

It was not until she married again in 1997, with the encouragement of her husband, she started her first business: With big plans in mind but only a small budget, she began Bermuda Bride in late 1999 and her floral company ‘Petals’ in 2001.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). 2001 ; Tullis et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Overview of legibility research: serif vs. sans serif.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. It became a social activity. 8-miler in Munich with the CEO of a company we were trying to buy. 7-miler in Dusseldorf with Stuart Lander, my close friend and associate.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. STARTING IT UP.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. When my husband Andy and I started dating, I was finishing my Master’s in Anthropology of International Development, where I was focusing on West Africa.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But I admit, I started programming assembly at 11 and then did a lot of C++ before moving on to.NET in 2002. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. ASP.NET WebForms from 2002 is not the same as “ NET” in 2011. Patrick Smacchiauiul. March 27, 2011 at 6:34 pm. Michael Chan.

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