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. My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. While my world started to settle down in mid-2002, the rest of Mobius started to more aggressively fall apart. I did my deals.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public.

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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.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. Lastly, I asked a few women that were not customers to try the service. Even those that started skeptically came back enthused.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. So why should I or we collectively care?

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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’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. How did you get into VC? (9:30 9:30 – 11:30). How does someone get access to you? (22:00-33:00).

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. 1 for us is they want a management team with multiple people that have track records in venture capital and have worked together as a team before,” he said. “From 2008 to 2013, that was not a good time for exits,” Adams said.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 25, 2003

Its latest survey calls for an increase of 2% spending for 2003 versus a December 2002 survey which forecasted a decline of 1.1% Another data point that I look at is how the fund’s 30+ portfolio companies are performing. To bolster my thinking, I like to look at a number of data points. for 2003 spending.

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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. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials.

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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. The management team wasn’t strong enough. The VC sense of accomplishment or failure is blunted by being slightly removed and by the portfolio effect. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. No time soon.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

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).

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

My recent post on “ Asset Management is a Bizarre Industry Ripe for Disruption ” got one of the most interesting reactions I’ve received. Terri Chernick : I totally agree with you that the investment management industry is ripe for improvement in so many places, from back office to front office, to payment schemes, etc.

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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. So with a full head of steam and vigor and our big HoneyBaked client in our portfolio, we pitched our brains out to win this new client. Today we manage the Chick-fil-A Facebook page and their Twitter page.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But, at least twenty graphic design firms from around the world have proven to be the best in their field, with gorgeous portfolios filled with impressive clients and prominent design campaigns. It also has online services its created, including Ballpark (an invoicing app), and Flow, (a project management app). Frog Design. McFaul+Day.

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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. The management team wasn’t strong enough. The VC sense of accomplishment or failure is blunted by being slightly removed and by the portfolio effect. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. No time soon.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Department of Defense along with the European Space Agency (ESA) all have adopted the TRL to manage their complex projects. As simple as it is, the TRL is used to manage funding and go/no decisions for complex programs worldwide. Air Force , then the Army and then the entire U.S. Those days are over. Lessons Learned.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Management control is further entrenched by other provisions including a “controlled company” designation , exempting the company from the customary stock exchange-imposed corporate governance rules that apply to the vast majority of public companies in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

Thanks to Jonas Sickler, Reputation Management ! #4- When we bought the flooded, abandoned building that we’d restore and open as the *Elkhorn Inn* in 2002, we had basically one day to come up with our company name to meet a WV tourism deadline, and so named it for Elkhorn Creek which runs behind the building.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. That’s a really big deal, because that category of software, line managers and businesses have never actually used that software themselves. Actually — we have another one actually that is — well, it sounds esoteric, but it actually is very relevant.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. I’m a big KISS fan, so in the 1980s when I was also in a local rock band in Cleveland, we needed an entertainment agency to manage the band.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

To date, no one has managed to provide a conclusive answer to this issue. Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. In your first M&A, it’s easy to believe you can manage two brands and two platforms. The company managed to make it happen in just a few weeks. And that was the start of an interesting journey. It becomes too complicated. Shifting gears.

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