Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying).
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. SXSW audiences were among the first to witness the emergence of Twitter when they won the Best New App in 2007.
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Diego Basch
AUGUST 14, 2013
There was one time when building a decent search engine was relatively simple: crawl a few million pages (in 1997, that would have included pretty much every interesting web page out there). If you and I start typing a first name (J-o-h), odds are it will show us people we know named John, along with their pictures.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 2, 2014
Three years ago today, I grabbed the domain name BrooklynBridgeVentures.com. What might be a more relevant date is May 22nd, 2007. Getting a domain name. I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997. After my two year stint was up, I bought a domain name.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 31, 2014
His name will be familiar to plenty of you – it’s Fred Wilson. This LP is also a long time investor in Union Square Ventures and was one of the first people Fred introduced us to when we started raising the first Foundry Group fund in 2007. In 2007, several of us (Jason, Ryan, Seth, and I) set out to create a new firm.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 5, 2013
Not surprisingly, Snapple declined to make a second attempt to break the official record, which had been set in Holland in 1997 by a 21-foot ice pop. One marketing guru named William Crush came up with a killer idea: create a “temporary” city and the stage a train wreck for an audience of paying spectators. PR Destroyed It.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2011
Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. It was 2007. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. Most of them in the past 12 months.
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