Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 26, 2021

Last week I participated in a virtual tour of the Media Archaeology Lab. Amy and I are financial supporters, I gave them my vintage computer collection several years ago, and we’ve underwritten their acquisition of several collections. “Working” is an important part of the phrase. .

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Audio Media Acquisition Video 144

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

Tysdal founded a private equity firm primarily focused on healthcare, media & entertainment and secondarily on real estate and construction services. Brown & Sons, focused on corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions. Mr. Tysdal is also the founder of Sports Shares, a fractional luxury suite club.

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Private Equity Entrepreneur Merger Cofounder 94

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Private equity investors seemed to shift primarily to acquisitions of these companies rather than investing while large amounts of international capital suddenly showed up. Clearly the moonbeams the unicorns were riding attracted them. This vaporized at the end of the year and in Q1 as the public markets corrected.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

The fiction that strong patent rights lead to more domestic VC investment is highly damaging and utterly false in software, an industry where low capital intensity and low barriers to entry make product and user acquisition, not “IP,” king. The tax situation and cost of living in, say, South America, is much better than in the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

The investment was an obvious one for us as it fits squarely in our Adhesive theme given the deep relationships LinkSmart has with big media and web platforms as a provider of analytics and traffic management software. My partner Seth Levine sits on the board and wrote about his view of LinkSmart.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

Somehow – perhaps because of the pernicious influence of large media companies on the government’s activities – rights to your digital data are taking a backseat to any and all attempts to enforce the copyright laws. cascading effects crossed their availability zones).

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Virgin Media Accelerator (London). When you ponder Techstars acquisition of UP Global, especially if you think about how horizontal scaling and geography intersect, you get a glimpse of another layer of functionality that we just added to the horizontal scaling model. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel).

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