Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2014
When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. I often get asked how I ended up becoming a venture capitalist.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 1, 2014
In a recent blog post , he argues that it’s not just costs that are at historic lows. ” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases.
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Start Up Blog
JULY 7, 2014
It wasn’t so long ago that these statements were made about the internet as a commercial platform: It’s for nerds. There will never be any internet payments. No one will put their credit card on the internet. It’s an open-source kind of thing so there will be no Internet companies. It’s slow.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 28, 2011
Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs.
Start Up Blog
DECEMBER 9, 2021
By the end of this decade everyone reading this blog will own a large number of NFT’s. Buckle in – we are about to get the missing link to the Internet we were promised in the mid 1990’s. Art is just the start. But from now on it will serve you well to read the words ‘Smart Contract’ whenever you see the acronym NFT.
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