Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013 2:19:42 AM. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. Many of you are out on the frontier, and I thought Zack captured the essence of it in his message to his team. . From: Zachary Rosen. To: Pantheon Staff. Subject: Welcome to The Frontier.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. We first saw this with Twitter in 2013 when they went public and many (both retail & institutional investors) believed that company might be the “next Facebook”. Something similar happened with Snapchat in 2017 with their IPO.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

It was started in 2004 and it has since supported a lot of research programs devoted to studying diseases, searching for cures (malaria, Ebola, TB, Zika, cancer, muscular dystrophy, AIDS), and solving humanitarian problems like clean water, clean energy, developing more nutritious rice, and climate modelling in Africa.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

Web hosting has come a long way since I setup my first self-hosted domain back in 2004. How and Why to Make Your WebsiteTablet and Mobile Friendly… How to Make Your Content Mobile Friendly 5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2013 The Impact of Better Design Ideal Visitor Optimization Is the New Website Design.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

One of the company’s smartest moves was introducing “Netflix Original” movies and TV shows, first launching House of Cards in 2013 to much success. With a new CEO in 2004, the toy company shifted gears and introduced new lines of some of the most popular LEGO sets in history. Thanks to Jen Wan, Soteri Skin ! #5-

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

That blog post – which turned into one of my most read posts ever – grew out of a study done by Correlation Ventures showing the distribution of outcomes across over 21,000 financings during the years 2004-2013 as well as some of my own observations.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Tech Startup dedicated to custom jeans circa 2013. Gmail has also changed a lot since it was first introduced in 2004, with the most significant change being that now emails are automatically archived and deleted after 30 days. What Has Changed Over the Past Ten Years? The startup landscape has changed a lot over the past ten years.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Agrawal, Catalini, and Goldfarb (2013) examined the types of risks that donors encounter in crowdfunding. And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). Kuppuswamy and Bayus (2013) analyzed all Kickstarter projects from 2009 to 2012. Strategy: Convey Your Reputation.

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Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. We first saw this with Twitter in 2013 when they went public and many (both retail & institutional investors) believed that company might be the “next Facebook”. Something similar happened with Snapchat in 2017 with their IPO.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 10, 2021

I started writing this blog in May of 2004 with an objective of writing about the experience of being a first-time entrepreneur — a startup CEO — inspired by a blog post written by my friend, long-time Board member and mentor Fred Wilson entitled “ You’re only a first time CEO once.” Welcome to the new StartupCEO.com!

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just when you think Dreamforce is all fun and games, you see Benioff on stage with former supermodel Petra Nemcova as she talks about losing her fiancé in the 2004 Asian Tsunami and dedicating her life to helping others. [Have a] “Heart of Glass”.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 10, 2014

He also co-founded Cubeduel, a site that lets you rank your co-workers and Strangeberry, a digital media startup that was acquired by TiVo in 2004. Vacation rental service Dwellable takes on HomeAway, on pace for $10M in bookings in 2013 (geekwire.com). He’s the co-founder of Urbanspoon , the popular restaurant review site and app.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

With the trend of email overload more than likely to continue in 2013, the time has come to clean up, prioritize and organize your inbox so that the emails you do receive are the ones you want to keep. Are you getting good at email?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

In the fall of 2013, we raised a similar type of fund called Foundry Group Select. It was a $225 million fund, just like our other three $225 million funds raised in 2007, 2010, and 2013. In one case they referred to it as a growth fund. In the other case they referred to it as an opportunity fund.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany. Teaching “Search versus Execution”. In 2003 U.C. Having Eric in the class was the best investment I ever made.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 2004, you’d raise $500k with just an idea. In 2013, these days, you are expected to have a product coded up and ready before you raise your first substantial angel round. The qualitative bar for the team, idea, and market was high. Then you’d build the product and spend $5M to market it.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

In the fall of 2013, we raised a similar type of fund called Foundry Group Select. It was a $225 million fund, just like our other three $225 million funds raised in 2007, 2010, and 2013. In one case they referred to it as a growth fund. In the other case they referred to it as an opportunity fund.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

I’ve been through the “what’s next” discussion with Amy several times, including in 2004 when I doubled down on Mobius Venture Capital (instead of packing it up and calling it quits), in 2006 when we decided to start Techstars and Foundry Group, and again in 2013 after spending six months being extremely depressed.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2013

The discrepancy between the timetable the company thinks is fine and what a typical customer actually expects in the year 2013. That may have been fine in 2004, but a 36 hour response time is something like a hundred and eighty-nine Internet years. The difference is, by and large, staggering. No fuss, no muss: 1.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

According to Transparency International in 2013, Nigeria was the world’s 144th most corrupt country out of the 177 countries monitored. Moreover, investment in the country has been slow to accelerate. Perceptions that it is too dangerous to do business and that corruption is rife are largely correct.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany. Teaching “Search versus Execution”. In 2003 U.C. Having Eric in the class was the best investment I ever made.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2012

He is the author of four books: Inspired People Produce Results – Leading Generation Me (2013), Getting Back Up When Life Knocks You Down (2011) , Be Last – Descending to Greatness (2008) , One Step Closer – To A Life Worth Living (2004). Since 1995 he has spoken to over 500,000 people at live events around the world.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Mauborgne (2004). This Book Will Teach You How to Write Better by Neville Medhora (2013). Based on the idea that we all have an entrepreneur, manager , and technician inside of us, the book equips you to make the most of each skill set. Covering everything from strategy to productivity, it’s a must-read. Blue Ocean Strategy by W.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In 2004, journalist Ben Hammersley referred to the booming medium as “podcasting.” By 2013, Apple was boasting more than 1 billion podcast subscribers using their platform. That’s significant because it indicates truly explosive growth in the medium — a 75% increase since 2013. ” As Apple and Yahoo!

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In 2004, journalist Ben Hammersley referred to the booming medium as “podcasting.” By 2013, Apple was boasting more than 1 billion podcast subscribers using their platform. That’s significant because it indicates truly explosive growth in the medium — a 75% increase since 2013. ” As Apple and Yahoo!

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 29, 2019

Personality styles – these include models such as DiSC , (Wiley, 2007) Myers and Briggs and our own Circles of Empowerment Interaction Styles at EnQPractice (Geyer, 2013), designed to understand what drives the behavior of individuals. (Kolb & Wagner, 2015).The The understanding is that we are born with our personality traits.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

For reference, First Round Capital and Softech were founded in 2004 (although they were less institutional early on), Floodgate in 2006, Harrison Metal in 2008, etc. So, between 2008 and 2013, the early-stage landscape looked more like the middle segment of the chart.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Without knowing more details about the employee equity plans, it’s unclear how much more cash of this nature could come in during 2012 or 2013. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. billion in cash profit last year.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2013

The reports recorded 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths, between 2004 and 2009. Copyright © 2013 . For example, on October 22, 2010, Wikileaks, an online organization that releases private documents and media from anonymous sources, released 391,832 United States Army field reports, now known as the Iraq War Logs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

With the trend of email overload more than likely to continue in 2013, the time has come to clean up, prioritize and organize your inbox so that the emails you do receive are the ones you want to keep. Are you getting good at email? She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 5, 2013

Steve Cahillane from Coca-Cola chatting with my 2013 class of Leadership Atlanta. I’m an Atlanta boy and I still remember where I was back in 2004 when I got the call that we had won “the Coke account” Talk about a game changer for a small agency like mine, and an incredible source of pride as I told my family and friends!

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 30, 2019

In 2004, Bevan bought 10 acres property in Napa Valley’s Sonoma County. But, 2004 was not his break, not until in 2013 when he got his first 100-point Robert Parker score for his Cabernet Sauvignon in 2011. It will consume a vast amount of your time. Photo by Mike Benna on Unsplash.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Available since 2004, this site has a huge collection of free stock photos, wallpapers, backgrounds, textures and even insect photos. This site was launched in 2013 with the aim to provide high-quality photos on foods when two food lovers saw a complete lack on food photography ‘good taste’ on free stock photography sites.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

workforce, there was a 43% increase in positivity in urine drug test from 2004 – 2016. increase in positivity in hair drug test from 2013 – 2016. . – According to tests conducted on the general U.S There was a 56.7% increase in positivity in oral fluid test and 41.9%

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services. I founded ServiceKey in 2013 to mentor other service industry professionals using the lessons of my experience, but after two years decided to change the company’s name to CEO Warrior.

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