Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2020

I was decimated in the collapse of the Internet bubble and had an extremely rough business experience from 2001 – 2006 (which I lovingly refer to as “The Grind”). But, as several of my partners have reminded me, you have to take care of yourself first to be able to help anyone else.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Size of the online gambling market from 2009 to 2020 (in billion U.S. Partner with a provider that will bring out the best as you continue with the journey. However, if you chose to work with a partner ensure they offer user-friendly front end, a gaming management system, payment module and access to betting markets and top events.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. When Garret Camp and Travis Kalanick founded Uber in 2009, they hatched the industry now known as ride-sharing. annual GMV.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Also, working with a consulting CTO will prepare you for finding and selecting a permanent technology partner. Avoid delay by using a consulting CTO on a short-term basis while you are searching for a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were!

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“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.” recession in 2009.”. Premium-brand market leaders [.] Here are some things you can do. Learn from forced efficiency. “I

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. Uber is founded and AirBnB goes through YC in 2009. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2020

The Economic Antidote to COVID-19 Eric Ries & Ryan Beck In 2001, Apple's revenue fell by 33% in the depths of the dotcom bust. Many of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley were formed in the depths of the Great Recession: Slack, Uber, WhatsApp, Venmo and Square all launched in 2009. The rest is history.

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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. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2011

Billion dollars in the period of 2001-2010, says Globes in an article published today. The amount was calculated by the Israel MoneyTree Report for 2001-2010, conducted quarterly by PricewaterhouseCooper Israel. Israeli startups have raised $11.1

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. Watch the market closely.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2015

That night I met Dave Jilk, my first business partner and one of my best friends. My dad, a doctor, was a small partner in a bunch of real estate partnerships. By 1990 he was a large partner in a small number of the real estate partnerships that hadn’t failed, as he was one of the few partners who could keep writing checks.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That’s a fancy way of saying that these entrepreneurs used business planning to start the process of talking with potential customers, working with business partners, starting to look for funding, and gathering other information they needed to start their business. The multiple effects of business planning on new venture performance.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. Whitehill , now a partner at Fox Rothschild ) suggested that we shouldn’t use the typical path to a greencard under the EB-3 (Skilled worker/professional) category.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 18, 2013

From this fund you get paid a management fee each year and then a percentage of the profits ultimately made after returning the entire initial investment to your limited partners (you pay back your management fees before you consider the fund “returned”). Quick primer on the way VC works: You raise a fund from which to invest.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

After retiring in 2001, I also joined a ladies networking group, On Purpose Networking for Women (OPN). Poems by Anna was a great little business until I developed breast cancer in 2009. You’re abandoned by partners you once relied upon. The poems were printed for fancy papers, then framed or put into photo albums.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC. 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.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The KISS frontman started off selling the KISS-themed coffin online in 2001 and launched the newest versions of the “KISS Kasket” early in 2011. Shue and a partner created CafeMom, a social networking site for moms to share worries, tips, and stories. Kendra Wilkinson’s stripper poles.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Partnering with me at that stage was speculative at best. If there's a business co-founder with an idea looking to partner with me, they've flunked their first test if they weren't able to raise cash. ► 2009. (78). Hes right on so many levels. In 2008 I was first time startup founder with no cash. Newer Post.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kupietzky has served as CEO and Director of Oversee.net since 2009. Founded in 2000, Intellectual Ventures collaborates with leading inventors, partners with pioneering companies and invests both expertise and capital in the process of invention. Jeff Kupietzky, Chief Executive Officer and President, Oversee.net.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. The biggest value I can probably offer you is that I would talk about what youre working on. Lynne Johnson. Matt Haughey. Maura Johnston. Natalie Podrazik. Rafe Colburn. Sasha Frere-Jones.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz has muscled its way into the top ranks of VC firms since its 2009 debut in part by being generous on both fronts. "We Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. For Most, Tax Rates Hit Lows in 2009. Most Popular on Facebook.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Thanks to Dr. Victor Allis, CEO and founding partner, Quintiq ! #4) In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. So in 2009, as the economy came to a screeching halt, I took the leap. #17)

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

of US GDP in 2000; and in the 3rd quarter of 2009 down 33% from the same period a year earlier. Schramm and Bradley site the PriceWaterhouseCoopers study on 3rd Quarter 2009 investing to back up their assertions. The evidence? Venture capital funding is down - from an “astonishing” 1.1%

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 27, 2010

During the period of 2001-2009, there have been very few substantial start-ups built to allow that generation's 20-somethings to learn and develop company-building skills. Folks like Jeff Glass, who started m-Qube at around the same time and age, Scott Friend, who became president of ProfitLogic, Russ Wilcox at e-Ink and many more).

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

That’s a fancy way of saying that these entrepreneurs used business planning to start the process of talking with potential customers, working with business partners, starting to look for funding, and gathering other information they needed to start their business. The multiple effects of business planning on new venture performance.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009. million for the year, which is the first time it has been below $5 million since 2001, a sign that capital efficiency will be even more important than it has. Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations. ▼ 2009. (7). We drew $1.5

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Today, Goldstar works directly with 4,000 venue partners to connect them with their huge and growing audience. In January 2009 they won a Crunchie for best bootstrapped startup. The company has over 1.5 Startup #5: FastSpring.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

Commitments to respect their employees, their customers, their partners. You may have suppliers, vendors, partners, and then you have society. I went to RISD from 2000 to 2004, the iPod came out in 2001 and, really, that was the moment that industrial design experienced its golden age, and I was a industrial designer.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.” I once ran a startup company partnered with a US company. December 2009. November 2009.

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