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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

In addition to having my company acquired, I worked with them on the diligence team for a number of other acquisitions. After I sold my company and started investing in companies in 1994, Charlie and I talked regularly about the Internet, which was just emerging as something that large companies should pay attention to.

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How Does A Small Company Make A Big Company Successful?

Feld Thoughts

When I started investing in 1994, I was involved with a few large companies. For a short time I was connected into GE via their acquisition of AmeriData (I still have my GE business card with the “ meatball logo ” on it.)

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RIP Len Fassler

Feld Thoughts

When I started making angel investments in 1994, Len invested alongside me in many companies, including NetGenesis, Harmonix, and Oblong. He told me that Cable & Wireless wasn’t moving forward with the acquisition of Interliant – the deal was all but done.

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What we can learn from the UK’s top franchises

The Startup Magazine

By 1994, the chain had reached an impressive 100 pubs and ventured as far north as the Midlands. Fast forward a few decades and the business’s first major acquisition took place in the 60s when the Group moved into Yorkshire. 1998 saw the 300 th pub open and its rapid expansion saw them reach 500 pubs being open by 2001.

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Moving To Homer, Alaska

Feld Thoughts

By the end of 1994 I had a staff job, reporting to the co-chairmen of AmeriData where I travelled all over the US helping with acquisitions and generally causing trouble. We were living in Boston at the time. I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993.

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What We All Can Learn from Wayne Huizenga

Growthink Blog

And just like with Waste Management’s early public offering, he cashed out of Blockbuster early - in 1994 to Viacom for a whopping $8.4 A key to the success of AutoNation was Wayne learning to temper his “grow by super-fast acquisition” spirit that so drove the success of Waste management and Blockbuster. And to delegate.

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Lottery Avoidance: Require Real Capital

Andrew Payne

When we started Open Market in 1994, a basic Unix server and SQL database cost $100-200k. Note: raising capital for customer acquisition is not enough of a differentiator. See my article on customer acquisition.). It took real money to build Internet companies, and that meant competition was limited by available capital.

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