Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.) If you like to read IPO prospectuses, here’s the final S-1 filing after INIT went effective and started trading on July 8, 1999. My first moment with this was Black Monday in 1987.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

On September 19, Ma led Alibaba to the largest IPO in history, listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange. One of the most Modi, who won in a landslide election with a clear mandate for economic reform (despite controversy surrounding his role in sectarian riots in 2002), is fully aware of the lofty expectations of those he governs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Internet pioneers.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

So why would you not think that internet retailers are interested in maximizing pricing as well? The company could be preparing for an IPO. It’s common for even profitable companies to raise a large round in preparation for an IPO. An item’s price is the price. A couple things could be happening.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. It was a disaster.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Cracking The Code. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson? per share to $8.0 anecdotes. (13).

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy. On January 3, the adjunct professors will tackle their newest challenge: teaching 95 Booth students who have enrolled in the course, Building Internet Start-Ups: Risk, Reward, and Failure. He’s started four IPO-able companies in eight years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Internet pioneers.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). On the other hand, the failure rate of VC funded enterprise software ventures is high.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. Let me explain. And so too will be Factual. Other Layers.

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