Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Its revenue grew by 30%+. Another company had a revenue decline of 25%. My partners have another 50+. 2001 was a dreadful year for me. 2002 sucked, but it wasn’t as dreadful. Each company is different, and the dynamics of the bubble bursting were not generic. Its gross margin grew by 30%+. 2003 was hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. So at GRP Partners we’re very active now.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue.

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company. Image Credit: Andrew Greer.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

He is a venture partner at True Ventures. I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 But it was a conversation with Toni Schneider (now CEO of Automattic, the on-demand WordPress service), and a venture partner at True that made it all come together.

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