Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

This check is for The Community Foundation and for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) and results from a gift of 24,793 shares of common stock from Rally at the time of its first financing that represented approximately 1% of the equity of the company. I remember numerous conversations with Ryan about this.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

They come up with two options: Hire Praveena as an employee and offer her stock options. Bring Praveena in as a founder and offer 10-20% of the company as stock. Jane and Dick want to bring in their friend Praveena as CTO, but they don’t know how to structure the compensation.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 18, 2022

Meme Stocks Were Too Good to Robinhood : Also Russian debt and crypto depositors. I Was Told There’d Be a Cake Merger : Also a threatening letter, a toehold stock position, a venture-capital paper and a tweet from an undisclosed location. Don’t Cheat on the Ethics Exam : Also CoinFlex, Spirit and cheerleading for risk.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2016

He was the first author that FG Press published and I wrote about getting to know Eliot in my post about his first book Uncommon Stock 1.0 I’m super proud of Eliot. If FG Press hadn’t failed I expect we would have published Cumulus.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2021

I learned about the stock market by reading those magazines. free trading), a coordinated online crowd of millions of people, and low float stock (either highly shorted or not much supply in the first place), the setup for a classic pump and dump exists. That period was full of pump and dump schemes , especially on the pink sheets.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

We didn’t have any financing except for Brad’s credit card and the $10 with which we had purchased our common stock. We employed half a dozen programmers, most of whom were undergraduates from our fraternity working part-time. Dave walked into Brad’s office after calculating preliminary financial results for January.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 24, 2020

The easter eggs are endless, and while there are some rough edges (this is, after all, Mario’s first book) it brought me back to reading Eliot Peper’s first book Uncommon Stock: Version 1.0. Mario – good job! When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times : Pema Chödrön’s classic.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2016

Uncommon Stock was the first book that FG Press published and I spent plenty of time with Eliot as chief cheerleader and mediocre editor and, when the book was finished, loved it. Eliot went on to write a trilogy starting Mara Winkel.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 8, 2021

” As someone who has held private company stock in companies for longer than 20 years, been in many situations where there were no exit opportunities until suddenly there was an exit, I understand and am completely comfortable will illiquidity. I put a bunch of Exodus stock I’d gotten from the sale of a company into the fund.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2018

By the end of 2000, the stock price was at $13. I was on a walk at my house in Eldorado Springs with one of the VPs who asked me how low the stock could go. I can’t remember the exact phrasing, but I remember it being something like “There’s no way the stock will go below $10 / share, right?”

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Some tech companies stock prices are at record highs, while established businesses are in a complete retreat or freefall. At the same time, there is no relief from the endless intensity of creating and leading a business. It should be no surprise that the mental health part of the crisis is real and accelerating.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

If accepted, each company will receive an equity investment of $20,000 in exchange for six percent of the company in common stock, which will be held by TechStars. Microsoft’s Kinect Accelerator is powered by TechStars and applications for the Kinect Accelerator are now being accepted through January 25, 2012.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

His book, Uncommon Stock , is the first one that we published at FG Press. If you want to read – and comment – along with me, grab a copy of Uncommon Stock on BookShout. The emotional reality behind the scenes in every startup is what inspired Uncommon Stock. FG Press Books eliot peper startup uncommon stock'

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

We were bought for a more reasonable 1x revenue (and about 4x pre-tax income) when the value of the AmeriData stock, options, and cash we took out were factored in. My first company, Feld Technologies, was bought by AmeriData, which bought 40 companies in three years.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Figure out an equation for converting the bonus amount (in current cash terms) to stock option awards. Then, the CEO and the leadership get to allocate the bonus to each person on a direct performance basis at the end of the year. Even better, consider using equity compensation as the bonus.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I don’t hold any Amazon stock directly, nor do I play the stock market, but the financials in public companies have a myriad of lessons buried in them for private companies that are scaling. .” There were many moments in time over the past 15+ years where I’m sure this came up.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Plus, the one I want – the wired one – isn’t in stock. So I’ll wait one product cycle, or at least until the beeping crushes my soul again.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2011

This one is more specific than “ignore the macro economy&# – instead, it’s “ignore the Dow and the stock market and get back to work on your business.&#. In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I had a my.yahoo.com page up with a bunch of stocks, including a number of companies I was an investor in, as my home page.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2019

Someone mentioned that Apple stock is having a difficult time right now, along with their Q4 performance, China strategy, and “let’s just raise the price on iPhones to make up for lower demand” strategy. I’m not really interested in Apple stock (I don’t own any.) My MacOS Dock to be more specific.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 3, 2020

Gyrations in the Stock Market. Presidential Primaries. Global Pandemic. Trisolarians arriving in their droplet to exterminate us. It’s pretty intense out there right now. But not in my backyard where my dogs roam around. I was in the hospital recently, attached to those devices they attach you to that monitor everything.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Sometime in the spring of 2000, all of them hit their peak stock price. By mid-2001 I think all of these stocks were sub-$1 sotcks and – if they weren’t – they would be soon. In 2001, I was on the board of four public companies (and was co-chairman of two of them which I had been a co-founder of.)

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In it, he talks about how he handles public company stocks that he ends up with either via an IPO or a sale of a company he’s involved in to a public company. Two weeks ago Twitter stock hit $54 / share. We have somewhat different strategies, but we each have a strategy, which is key. Today it is trading at $42 / share.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2020

You don’t have to be in an office environment to develop software products, practice law, trade stocks, or make investments. A number of tech companies led the movement to work from home, including a group of us in Colorado.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2015

I loved his writing and FG Press went on to publish Eliot’s first two books – Uncommon Stock: Version 1.0 and Uncommon Stock: Power Play. Eliot’s third book, Uncommon Stock: Exit Strategy came out recently and the topic is particularly timely. Enjoy some deeper thoughts of his on why.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2020

The stock market had already had a 15% or so drop but there were less than 10 deaths (all in Seattle) from Covid in the US. When Amy and I had life dinner on March 1st, we were both tired after a three-week trip to Boston, Miami, and Atlanta. As we discussed the potential impact of Covid, we talked about the current state of things in the US.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2019

By the time people are prognosticating on the direction of things, the prices of crypto, interest rates, IPOs, the stock market, P/E multiples, and everything else, it’s too late – you have already missed the moment you are probably searching for. So, the search for signal gets harder, more complicated, and more important.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 2002, I decided not to own any public company stocks except for companies that I directly invested in as private companies. I’m a big believer in the Bogle school of thought about owning the market , rather than trading stocks. The approach was mathematic, dispassionate, and easy for me to execute. Or a weekly basis.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2019

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Nicholas soon would be there. “ This is a confusing time of year for me.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The potential bad news is that if the merger is an all stock deal, the company will need to find a way to find cash to pay back the loan or negotiate a way for the acquiring company to deal with the debt. If it’s not a stock deal, then one normally sees one of the above scenarios. Some sort of conversion does occur.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2020

Supply is limited and the Helium company is close to stocking out of their current batch of hotspots, but James will do his best to work with as many hosts in the area as possible. . If we’re successful, we could be one of the first regions of the United States with comprehensive coverage on the network!

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2016

It’s unofficially known as the fear index and is a measure of the market’s expectation of stock market volatility over the next 30 days. For example, here’s the VIX for the past 12 months.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2020

Near term predictions drive the stock market (e.g., At some level, that’s not new, as the regular end of year media rhythm for as long as I can remember is a stream of famous people being asked their predictions for the next year. There are entire domains, such as economics, that are all about predictions.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

. “Analysts expect competing Internet and entertainment companies to seek similar deals in hopes of keeping pace with AOL and Time Warner, and some of those stocks also got a lift Monday. 1/4 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.” Disney jumped $4.81 1/4 to $35.93 3/4 and News Corp. rose $7.31 1/4 to 45.06 1/4 on the NYSE.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2015

While the secondary activity has been going on for a while, I separate for “people trying to buy late stage stock” from “angels investors.” I saw two situations where angels are being pitched on secondary purchases of late stage companies.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2012

While their stock options will be worthless (as is all equity) they are often immediately offered new stock option packages. In a situation where the company is immediately purchased out of ABC (which is what it looks like happened in OnLive’s case) many of the employees will be rehired by the new owner.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

It was 40,000 shares of Sage stock, options for another 40,000 shares of Sage stock, the cash and working capital on the balance sheet (which was about $250,000), salaries of 100k for year 1, 110k for year 2, and 120k for year 3, and 10% of the profits of our group going forward.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

David did a ThisWeekIn TechStars segment with me while we were together at Casetta in which you get to see the place, watch me swim laps in a pool while David interviews me about Occipital , the book Venture Deals , volatility in the stock markets and how entrepreneurs should think about it, and then some thoughts at the end of work-life balance.

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