Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2016

Over the past four years, they’ve systematically executed on their vision, building a contact management platform that touches all aspects of the problem. By 2002 I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me. Along the way they built a sizable business.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In Boris is currently based in Vancouver, Canada and has been since 2002, after his own company, JustBooks, was acquired by AbeBooks. Boris Wertz. Image credit Flickr. And, “passion knows no gender.”

Venture Capital 90

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013. Based on his track record, by 2008 he was able to found ff Venture Capital , an institutional angel investment firm (where I am a Partner). However, those angels constitute only about 4% of the estimated 7.1 million households in the US with a net worth of $1 million or more.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. Enter the Craziness.

Technical Review 195

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

This is not only to prevent your clients and partners from being caught off-guard by the rebranded communication, but to also get critical feedback from them during the transition process. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change. He also serves as the project manager at Shepherd Software.

Merger 124

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Good entrepreneurs are all about managing change, but too many forget that they have to change themselves as their dream evolves from a startup to a scalable business. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.

Social Network 120

Social Network Demand Valuation Acquisition 120

Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

While I’d been a partner in Mobius from the beginning, I hadn’t really been engaged in managing the overall firm. 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. I was tired, burned out, and very frustrated.

San Francisco 108

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2018

So establish from the very beginning whether they are simply a silent partner or if they intend to be hands on and provide advice. In conclusion, whatever your business, there are lending solutions out there that are right for you and a much better option than having to plead with the dreaded bank manager. Business Cash Advance.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Yes, there are a few self-taught naturals, like Bubba Watson, and, uh…Sam Snead (1912–2002). Not all incubators and accelerators are the same, and many have adopted vertical specializations and come packing serious heat from major partners in those verticals. Residency in a quality incubator is a plus.

Technical Review 48

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Similarly, in it’s own 2002 study, the communications agency Cone found that 77 percent of respondents said that a company’s commitment to social issues was a major factor when deciding where to work,” writes CEO of TOMS shoes Blake Mycoskie, in his book Start Something That Matters. Catmull was blind-sided. What’s number one? Flashy perks?

Software Review 126

Software Review Employee Retention Silicon Valley 126

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Leadership and Managing >. Quality Manager Job Description. Quality Manager Job Description. Recruitment Manager Job Description. Technology | Thursdays. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays.

Arizona 40

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Honeywell CEO Dave Cote also cautions against shortsightedness during economic downturns: I’ve been a leader during three recessions and I’ve never heard a management team talk about how the choices they make during a downturn will affect performance during a recovery.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

But in 2002, Anytime Fitness succeeded by introducing just a couple of fresh components – 24/7/365 access for members and convenient locations in neighborhood strip malls. ” Solution: Break down the project into discrete, manageable steps . Your execution and unique spin will make it new and interesting.

Product 127

Product Startup Audience eCommerce 127

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

When I make a list of non-family members and non-partners who I would want to be stranded on a desert island with, Jerry is at the top of the list. Jerry became partners with Fred Wilson and they started Flatiron Partners. In 2002 Jerry retired from venture capital and went on his own personal journey for meaning.

Non-Compete 70

Non-Compete LP Venture Capital Affiliate 70

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. How did you get into VC? (9:30 9:30 – 11:30).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. 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. “From 2008 to 2013, that was not a good time for exits,” Adams said.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 2002, I decided not to own any public company stocks except for companies that I directly invested in as private companies. In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds).

Flash 70

Flash Equity Stock Finance 70

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. You knew it all along.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002.

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. So, if you think about how a large company can innovate, they could build, they could buy, they could partner, they could license. Innovators are not entrepreneurs. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). Being a partner of a tool you customize was the best. 4 Matt Doar on 09.29.09 at 6:35 pm Writing a book helped.

Software Review 53

Software Review Developer RSS Software Developers 53

Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

Part of the problem was that the company bought into its own hype, but the bigger sin was that Pets.com’s owners—Hummer Winblad Venture Partners—ignored the fundamentals. But over the course of the Edsel’s three-year run, Ford only managed to unload 118,000 of them. When Ford’s public relations manager, C. What Went Wrong?

Sales 126

Sales IPO Texas Advertising 126

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. The company announced that is just completed $13M in financing from existing investors SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures, and Trellis Partners. An item’s price is the price.

Balance Sheet 67

Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

The University of California managed research and development of the bomb design at Los Alamos while the US Army managed the Los Alamos facilities and the overall administration of the project. In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. After the war the U.S. split up the functions of the OSRD. war fighting strategy in both Gulf Wars.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Kuwait 120

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

The residential real estate market is ripe for disruption because as millennials enter the home buying market (now they are 30% of all homebuyers in America) they are looking for online tools and apps that will empower them with information and tools to help them manage this extremely stressful, overwhelming, and expensive process.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur China 157

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and immigrated to Austin, Texas, in 2002 at the age of 15. Her work in the healthcare space as a client manager inspired her to pursue an MBA, which she completed at the University of Texas at Austin.

Founder 62

Founder Iowa Cofounder Mexico 62

Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. At Palo Alto Software, we use our own product – LivePlan – to manage and keep track of key business metrics. My partner, James Shields , is an avid unicyclist. And, there’s the added bonus of encouraging people to drive better. Very clever. Ever heard of GoPro?

Hockey Stick 144

Hockey Stick South Africa Africa Cambodia 144

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The studio’s design talent boasts some famous names among the list of partners, including Paula Scher, Michael Beirut, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Harry Pearce, and many more. It also has online services its created, including Ballpark (an invoicing app), and Flow, (a project management app). Headquarters: London. Frog Design.

San Francisco 86

San Francisco Design New York City New York 86

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Even though the mom-and-pop ice cream business was bought out, it has managed to maintain its lighthearted humor and commitment to social causes that made it unique and likeable from the beginning. In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006.

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Southern California Las Vegas Honolulu Massachusetts 162

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. So if you are techie, find a founding partner that is a hustler. If you are hustler, find a superb techie as founding partner. The technology has to be superb to get into the enterprise.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. You knew it all along.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 21, 2011

But I’m getting ahead of myself… It was somewhere around 2002 and our agency, Spunlogic , was maybe 10 people. Today we manage the Chick-fil-A Facebook page and their Twitter page. And they’re one of our favorite clients and I like to think we’re one of their favorite partners. Everyone I know loves them.

Portfolio 58

Portfolio Mobile Web Video 58

Board Effect

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Nonprofit managers may be able to sustainably improve trust among the general public by focusing on the organization’s branding and accountability strategies. Difficulties in Partnering: Collaborations with other nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses are essential for expanding impact.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Government Reputation 52

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I founded Wings Air Helicopters in 2002, which started out as a flight school with just one training helicopter and has since grown into a premier helicopter company. I then partnered with other PR firms in the US to assist and grow their client base and in turn, grew mine as well. My manager began to bully me in the workplace.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur PR Affiliate Social Media 120

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you find a resource on bank loans dated 2002, for example, you’ll probably want to verify that the information is still correct by comparing it to other pages in your search results. Bplans does partner with a business plan writing service —but they only serve customers in the U.S. Is it up to date ?

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