Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When we led Eric’s first financing — a $10 million round and the first capital into the bootstrapped team — we believed mobile location and mapping would be big. Back in 1997, Softbank Technology Ventures (which became Mobius Venture Capital) was the first VC fund I helped raise.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Twitter Bootstrap : Created by Mark Otto and Angus Droll , Bootstrap makes its learning curve worth the effort. What it lacks in stylesheet comments Bootstrap makes up in online documentation and sample files. What it lacks in stylesheet comments Bootstrap makes up in online documentation and sample files. and later).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. Note that some of those companies were bootstrapped, some bootstrapped and took money later, and some had huge funding from the start. It’s not about the financing path, it’s about what you’ve decided to build.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. The latter was fine by me since there was no money in the company for me to draw a salary any way. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Former students who are readers of this blog may recall the Amazon IPO case from Entrepreneurial Finance class. Amazon priced it''s IPO in 1997 at approximately $500M (the $18 IPO price was an increase from the $12-$14 range) and first trade was at $29.25 or a market cap of $800M. igthwghjg2q2g8hu4). Sorry about that.

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