Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2015

“We will never need another financing.” ” “This financing will get us to cash flow breakeven.” ” “This is our last financing before we become profitable.” “This is the last financing we’ll ever need” is the lead in statement.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

This has been going on for at least a quarter or two, but the velocity of it seems to have picked up with a wave of high priced financings along with large financings for nascent companies. In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2013

I’ve worked with Matt since 2001 when I joined Fred Wilson and Greg Sands on the board of Return Path. They decided they wanted to join forces, Fred and I cut a deal over the phone in 5 minutes , and Greg Sands (at Sutter Hill at the time) led a financing round that set a price for the combined company.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2011

Today is Finance Friday and post #2 has been drafted by the Finance Friday team from University of Chicago Booth and is waiting for my edits. In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I had a my.yahoo.com page up with a bunch of stocks, including a number of companies I was an investor in, as my home page.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2014

He had just read my post on being uncomfortable with the phase of the current cycle and told me an anecdote from the great Internet bubble of 2001 that I hadn’t heard. He’d gotten a random note asking about his valuation when we invested relative to another financing that was just announced.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 1, 2015

In contrast, I’ve known and worked with Matt since 2001 when I first invested in his company Return Path (well – it’s a little more complicated than just an investment – see my post Return Path Launches Email Intelligence from 2012 where I recounted some of the story.).

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