Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

One of them – Interliant (where we were co-chairman) – was a huge success for a while, reaching a peak market cap of about $3 billion on NASDAQ. He introduced me to my first company when I was 11 and allowed me to tag along with him for many years into my mid-20s. Charlie Feld is my dad’s brother / my uncle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So we don't want to lose track of these tried and true things, optimizing title tags and the body copy and all that sort of stuff, doing proper keyword research, optimizing the technical underpinnings of your website, doing all the configuration of your server and so forth using Yost SEO plugin for WordPress. I'm getting a little geeky here.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Convertible debt is an investment that “converts&# into equity in the future usually at a discount to your next funding round price and sometimes has a “cap&# (maximum price). So why do people do convertible debt with a cap? Clearly this is is a trend and a topic that is interesting entrepreneurs. Not always, but sometimes.

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Equity Early Stage Angel Investor Valuation 319

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I was ASTONISHED (yes, it was worthy of all caps) by how good their V0.9 Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. We recently met the management team of Assistly – CEO Alex Bard and COO Gary Benitt. When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Cap or warrants? Tags: Startup Advice. How well financed is the competition? What is their market traction? How much are they raising? How much is soft-circled (committed)? At what valuation? Convertible or equity? So please watch this quick video (click on image or link above) for only 2 minutes starting at about minute 7.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Stealth Valuation 292

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! You need to know how “tag along&# rights could potentially screw you. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

In 2009, Google allowed publishers to cap FCF views at five articles per day ; in 2015, the cap tightened to three articles. To keep Google from showing the cached link for your page, which allows freeloaders access, add the “noarchive” robots meta tag. For publishers, the policy didn’t work. The changes didn’t solve the issue.

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tomazkovacic.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Text Extraction from the Web via Text-to-Tag Ratio If MSS transformed the problem of article text extraction to maximum subsequence optimization; this approach transforms it to histogram clustering. Now let’s take a look at the representation of documents used in MSS. to obtain a sequence of scores ranging from [-0.5,

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Haystack

JANUARY 28, 2019

And it nearly tripled in the first year, now settling to be around the same market cap at Dropbox. At that time, back in 2013, Docusign was known to be a well-performing company. In early 2014, Docusign became a unicorn and eventually went IPO in 2018 at a whopping $4.5B Was Dropbox just a storage provider, or a collaboration platform?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 25, 2014

Don’t (read “NEVER”) go crazy with all caps. Accurately complete your site’s metadata (title tags, descriptions, alt text, etc.). Don’t spend precious text ad character count on your business name. It should already be in your optimized URL. Do capitalize the first letter of major words in your ad. It just makes good sense.

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Marketing Social Media Software Review Metadata 77

YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2014

You need an end-cap, or some other major display that isolates and differentiates your product from everyone else’s. A green background on your end cap suggests health but is a bad idea for a meat display because it implies rotten rather than fresh. Price Tags. That is not going to pay for the shelf space. Make it count.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A savvy investor can sniff-out unrealistic valuations, so do your research and offer a realistic price tag. Tom co-managed two top-performing small cap portfolios, and was the lead analyst for over a third of the economic sectors covered in the company. Early Stage investors are taking a huge amount of risk. Stay in Touch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

There’s a cap to how many hours you can work and, consequently, how much you can earn. The way you communicate your value plays a huge role in justifying those premium price tags. But here’s a transformative thought: what if instead of selling hours, we sold solutions? But here’s the key: it’s not about you.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Cap Digital and System@tic are among a number of tech clusters in Paris. Tags: Never Mind the Valley. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs.

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

A good compromise is “convertible debt with a cap&# meaning the conversion price has a limit. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. The reality is that due to competition and a desire to keep legal costs down (convertible debt deals are cheaper to implement than priced rounds) there are many deals done with convertible debt.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Liquidation preferences can be quite complicated introducing caps and participation which the CompStudy survey hasn’t historically captured (more on that later). Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged Angel Investor , liquidation preference , startup , venture capital.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2018

That disconnect exists because many, myself included, have understood Google Analytics 360 primarily as an expansion of the data caps we encounter with the free version. As it turns out, those caps represent a fraction of overall value—like differentiating a presidential suite from a standard room based on square footage. Conclusion.

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venturedig.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The user will cap out at a certain point because there’s only so many times you can see a quiz ads, or game ads. Though you can control this with frequency caps, after a while the revenues will plateau and quickly decline. Tags: Tech application development facebook monetization social media.

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The Startup Lawyer

JUNE 22, 2010

Convertible Note Price Cap. To provide upside protection, angel investors like to put a “price cap&# on the convertible note discount. This price cap is expressed in terms of a pre-money valuation and effectively acts as a share price ceiling. Price Caps as a Weapon.

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Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Preferred Stock Valuation 82

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Startups are increasinglyraising money on convertible notes, and convertible notes have notvaluations but at most valuation caps : caps on what theeffective valuation will be when the debt converts to equity (in alater round, or upon acquisition if that happens first). Tags: startupcto.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2010

At Viasoft, we started with a unique product idea, raised venture capital from world class VC’s, sold into a virgin market, created a world-wide operation, completed a successful IPO, and generated a $1 billion market cap. Tags: entrepreneur investor role model business. Vitrix was started in an old tanning salon. Marty Zwilling.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2010

While there aren’t many issues to negotiate in simple equity financing at that stage, there’s been some debate in the venture capital and angel community on whether startups should use series seed documents or capped convertible debt. Flexibility – enable multiple board structures.

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Early Stage Term Sheet Preferred Stock Equity 79

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e. I don't advocate a SOX approach, that has been proven to kill off innovation, but as an outsider looking in it seems as though the distance between Sandhill Road and Vegas is getting shorter every day. davidhaber Index analogy isn't exactly apt either.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

For certain businesses, though – usually B2B with a high enough price tag and lifetime value – sales is a must. At each point, as what works caps out, go after the next marketing channel that can drive incrementally more users. Some resources for sales: Close.io

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

What's cool was that Bell was dressed casually; in jeans and a baseball cap, like most other street performers might. For example, in Joshua Bell's case, most passer-bys attributed very little value when they saw Bell in his jeans and baseball cap. Tags: Dave Lavinsky. But Bell was also playing a $3.5 MILLION violin.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And if you do feel you've found the right person, by all means make their stock contain standard vesting provisions to guard against a bad fit that takes significant amounts of stock off the cap table. Tags: socalcto startupcto. I don't want to see any more of you with crappy business guys ruining your great ideas, ok?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2010

It’s even more upsetting when you consider that there is no cap on political contributions that corporations can make. Tags: Politics first amendment pay to play sec Venture Capital. To err on the side of caution, we’ve determined that spouses cannot make state or local political contributions either.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

To exploit that data, you will need a way to made it available in your website or app during the user’s session, for example using a tag management system like Google Tag Manager. Frequency and capping. That data could be first-party, second-party or third-party. First party historical data. That could be one time per visit.

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Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2010

But no one tells you the business norms, so Gen-Y’ers come to work in jeans, baseball caps, tattoos, flip-flops and expect to be treated as executives. Tags: entrepreneur startup college courses business. Dress for Success. You are what you wear” works in business, just like it did in high school. Touch-Typing for Dummies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

In the above example you might say that the channel partner earns 25,000 shares for every $100,000 of your product that they sell in the next 12 months with up to a cap of 250,000 shares. While I’m a huge believer that sales bonuses should always be uncapped, I think capping PBW’s is a good idea. million in sales.

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Warrant Dilution Startup Stock Options 298

Steve Blank

JANUARY 11, 2010

During the craziness of the Internet bubble E.piphany’s market cap would be greater than Silicon Graphics.). Tags: E.piphany. Thirty days later John became the fourth co-founder of E.piphany. Sixty days later we convinced Silicon Graphics to license us all of John’s code for a dollar. Lessons Learned. ABR – Always Be Recruiting.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

Here’s a review from Experimentation and Optimization Expert Andrew Anderson: Andrew Anderson: “Pros – Offers a lot of flexibility as far as ways to interact with your systems, from APIs to one tag solutions. Some elements missing in the preview recap (capping, script setup, …). Some cons: WYSIWYG Editor a bit slow to load.

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Software Review Technical Review Analytics Algorithm 129

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In these scenarios angels made great returns precisely because they didn’t need to dip their hands into their pockets a second or third time, their companies didn’t go bankrupt and they didn’t get buried in the cap tables by large VCs who put in “pay to play” provisions in tough times. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Cap Table Deal Flow 284

Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

price tag squeezed out by BlackBerry represented *over half* of the actual cash reserves it had sitting on its balance sheet. Here’s my quick analysis with respect to two major recent technology exits: BlackBerry Acquires Cylance For $1.4B. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B and Thoma Bravo took over Veracode for $950M.

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Acquisition Artificial Inteligence Balance Sheet Cofounder 62

Bryce Dot VC

JULY 21, 2016

Free’d from the cap table and expectations for an exit from anxious VCs, they were able to focus on a small niche of their market, become indispensable to their customers and grow at a rate that made sense for them, not for their backers.

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Phoenix Cap Table Bootstrapping Founder 40

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Recently, I have seen a lot of seed stage financings being structured as convertible debt with a price cap , which is an alternative to the equity financing contemplated by the Series Seed documents. Certain angel investors refuse to do convertible debt deals, but will be okay if there is a price cap. Tags: Series A.

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Paired with our rapid incubation system for small cap private companies on their way to becoming public, as a FIRST step for growth funding, rather than as a last step for exit ROI, it's easy to see why the system we initially developed for Angel Investors is fast becoming a viable option for Venture Capital firms, as well.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84