thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

He founded eBay to empower individuals through the use of new technology, and has created livelihoods for millions of individuals throughout the world. I wrote my applications to college, or rather typed them on a typewriter with a bottle of WhiteOut close by.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

There are a million things they can do in the world, but the spend most of their time looking for the next great technology company that sells a better widget, but doesn’t necessarily change their life in any meaningful way. I had my first exit when I sold my first company (Feld Technologies) at age 28. Totally brilliant.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

I met Jerry in 1995. I was chair of NetGenesis, which was the first angel investment I’d made after selling Feld Technologies (my first company). I eventually co-founded SoftBank Technology Partners (which became Mobius Venture Capital) and SoftBank (the corporation) became a 50% LP in Flatiron with Chase.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2011

Sure – it’s had it’s ups and downs, but when I lived here from 1983 to 1995 the entrepreneurial vector was awesome. I started my first company (Feld Technologies) here in 1987 and made my first angel investment (NetGenesis) here in 1994. Boston has always been a great entrepreneurial community.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. Technology Cycles Measured in Years. But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

I started working in 1995 at the age of 15 in the mailroom at Waterhouse Securities (which became TD Waterhouse) at 100 Wall Street. Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. Venture Capital & Technology' Twenty years ago, I got my first job.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In the latest lob into the morass that has become somewhat of a sport amongst journalists and those that follow the venture capital industry, Carl Schramm and Harold Bradley write in BusinessWeek about “ How Venture Capital Lost Its Way ”. Venture capital funding is down - from an “astonishing” 1.1%

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

billion market capitalization. If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. in exchange for $70,000 in venture capital and a $30,000 loan from the early venture firm. WSJ Classroom.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Venture Capital is driver by power laws, meaning that a small percentage of companies drive the majority of the returns. A recent report by Sapphire Ventures took a data-driven approach to answer that question. In total, there were 7,600+ venture-backed exits in enterprise tech and almost 4,200 exits in consumer tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. He invented the category of sponsored search. That gave Google a huge cost advantage.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  At $20-30 billion per year, the venture capital industry as a whole remains a “drop in the bucket” in terms of capital deployed relative to the over trillion dollars sitting in private equity firms.    Yet the impact is enormous, with 18% of GDP provided by venture-backed companies. 

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995. As they can’t provide the scale to attract venture capital, they fund their businesses via friends/family or small business loans. Unlike small businesses, scalable startups are what Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and their venture investors do. Fast forward to today.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. While labeled the “dot.com” bubble, valuations went crazy across a wide range of technology sectors including telecommunications, enterprise software and biotech, not just the Internet. They finance companies that invest in new technologies, new ideas and new products.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business. Its the same with technology.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

“Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. LEADING SECURITY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY MCAFEE ACQUIRES ISRAEL’S SENTRIGO.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. We think so. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania (which he attended undergrad), and funding cancer research with his wife.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

I ran the group from 1995 through 2002, which was an incredibly exciting period of time, during which time the so-called cocktails developed. But the real cost could be as low as $10 or less if people take it to scale, do pooling, use some of the more innovative technologies. And that ought to be where we go with this.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In the real world, the montage is where ff Venture Capital and our founders live. The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires * – explores the development of the personal computer in the United States from WWII to 1995. He then asked why it doesn’t make it into the movie. His answer? It’s too boring.

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