Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I’ve only worked in what could be considered a “big” company for 18 months (1993 – 1995) and that was the company (AmeriData) that bought my first company (Feld Technologies). Even better, consider using equity compensation as the bonus.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2018

Anthony Shontz, managing director of Private Equity at Partners Group. The entire experience was foundational for me, both as an entrepreneur and an early angel investor (I started investing in 1994 after I sold my first company at the end of 1993.). Dan and Cindy Caruso and Amy and I contributed the prizes, which total $100,000.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 2, 2012

A short letter agreement specifying the equity splits and the boilerplate legal docs were the only legal docs we had until we sold the company in 1993. As my partner Jason Mendelson told me after I sent him this the other day, “If things go well, it’s fine. If they don’t, it’s a f **g disaster.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S. have less than 500 people and they employ 50% of the 121 million workers getting a paycheck. They accounted for 65 percent (or 9.8

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 14, 2014

You can see from the chart below that the number of internet hosts grew 10x from 1989 to 1993 – that’s roughly 2x a year. When asked why he founded Amazon he said that he was working on Wall Street in the early 1990s when someone showed him how fast the internet was growing he knew that something very important was happening.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 17, 2017

A question that is obviously important to everyone except the tunnel-visioned entrepreneur who doesn’t value his equity. It cost $699 when launched back in 1993. It is specific to answering the question: will anyone buy this? I’m hoping you already read my post about consumer surplus. It was also expensive.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

A question that is obviously important to everyone except the tunnel-visioned entrepreneur who doesn’t value his equity. It cost $699 when launched back in 1993. It is specific to answering the question: will anyone buy this? I’m hoping you already read my post about consumer surplus. It was also expensive.

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