Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Today one of our portfolio companies BigDoor announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OneTrueFan , a community and web check-in company. The former OneTrueFan team will be primarily focused on building and running a BigDoor branded rewards program that is targeted to long tail and medium size web publishers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. IPOs and M&A have returned – and with them the investment bankers have staged a rebound. – IPO-able in any normal market. There is a lot of pent-up demand.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

I am not sure if you saw the news , but Salary.com recently filed for an IPO to raise up to $50 million. Our direct sales group markets and sells our solutions primarily using the telephone and web-based demonstrations. During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

Storm Ventures’ 2005 vintage fund is on a tear, and should return perhaps 400 percent to its investors. That’s about as long as getting your start-up to IPO – and maybe a lot longer. A fun time, indeed, but with another seven to ten years of hard work left to IPO before there’s any economic reward. Waiting game. You and me?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. The desktop web introduced banner ads that offered “brand advertising” opportunities akin to television.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Mega VC has focused on the challenges of the post-SarbOx IPO market in the US, and has discovered opportunity in offering larger amounts of growth capital ($10-100M+) to private companies with reduced access to public markets. A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community.

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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. He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

You can find the 2005 version here. ► 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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending. Web Designer. AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Unfortunately, the web is ripe with sites that offer social implementations that miss the mark. You can go to any number of sites across the web that only offer Facebook Connect for social login. (My Web Video Roundup. Facebook IPO Hitting in Late May [REPORT]. Programming and Web Development Lists. Web Design.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In another study of 212 startups , Wasserman found that it was rare for Founder-CEOs to run their companies in the long term; less than half were still CEO after 3 years, and less than a quarter of the CEOs of the companies that reached an IPO were Founder-CEOs.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem. Want to start a startup?

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

In 2005, Kiva launched a micro-finance platform that allows people to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing areas. The Internet has made it easier for individuals and organizations to raise money for charitable purposes, political campaigns, artists seeking support from fans and various other projects.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. At first weexpected our customers to be Web consultants. Want to start a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Brian is the CEO of Coinbase, a successful tech company, and one of 2021's most successful IPOs. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. These companies produced over $52 billion dollars in sales in 2005, and employed 450,000 workers that year. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

At face value, this advice seems very different from the message Graham sent just a few months ago, in the wake of Facebooks poor IPO performance : If it means new startups raise their first money on worse terms than they would have a few months ago, thats not the end of the world, because by historical standards valuations had been high.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. Hardware ate just over 10% of the round.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. Or, perhaps theyll create an opening for another web platform to start a new cascade. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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