Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. Many are immersive and include internships. A few are longer than 12 weeks. It’s a powerful model that university education has generally missed on. revenue several years later. I’d argue the 0.5x

Stock Options 70

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Not really; it was a result of an industry investing into a frothy market at higher and higher valuations in expectation of near term liquidity, and suddenly the IPO window shutting, leading to no exits and little additional capital to support these companies. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.”

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). I’ve worked closely with Ari for a while and love his candor.

Burn Rate 152

Burn Rate Equity Software Review Early Stage 152

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The deals tend to fall into two categories – easy and immediate, which multiple bidders generating an rapidly escalating valuation or a long slow slog through lots of “almost there but we are passing because of some arbitrary reason.” enterprise software license sales) that is no longer trendy.

Later Stage 142

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