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Writing about SPACs

Feld Thoughts

When Jason and I wrote the first edition Venture Deals in 2011, we built off a series of 30+ blog posts we wrote in 2005 about Term Sheets. While the web is a much noisier place in 2021 than it was in 2005, the opacity and information asymmetry around SPACs are remarkably similar to what existed 16 years ago around venture deals.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting. You still need the presentation to back that up.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. Or worse yet they may never get financed. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. Have a cushion.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

It occurred in a web design class I was taking and we were challenged to create a domain name followed by taking steps to create the site. Now that my new career is in the personal finance industry, I’m helping women tame their money. 16- Inspired by my previous career. Photo Credit: Steffa Mantilla. 21- Communicate creativity.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 million raised, per CrunchBase): It came from my deep frustration renting as an undegrad at Oxford for the first time back in 2005. Our class was at least a third finance and a third consultants.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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