Feld Thoughts

MARCH 16, 2021

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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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. The hardware trend showed that internet connection speeds were increasing, and by 2005, the speed of the connection would be sufficient that we could reasonably stream video in real time without resorting to heroic amounts of video compression or miracles in internet protocols.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

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. We weren’t the first investor in Rally. Ryan quickly raised about $400k of friends and family money.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

She uses the web, Yahoo mail, and Facebook, impressive feats in themselves for someone her age. From 1981, when the IBM PC was introduced, until about 2005, one could expect a personal computer system to have a lifespan of 3-5 years. My mother is 86 years old.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I believe the phase we are currently in began in the early 1990′s with the invention of the World Wide Web and subsequent emergence of the commercial Internet. Or even just a web browser and a Google search on your iPad. But just let your brain take the leap that your iPhone is essentially making you a computer-enhanced human.

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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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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2011

I wrote about the story on my post What Should You Do When Your Web Service Blows Up. I came close to funding another company of his in the 2005 time frame but that never came together. And it will be painful. I became a believer in backing up my data when I was 17 years old and had my first data calamity. Don’t be a knucklehead.

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