Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I’ve posted about the massive founder crush my partners and I have on Eric Gundersen, the CEO of Mapbox. 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.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2019

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Third: I have always been one that believes technology has made it easier to go on vacation, and that it is ok to use that technology to do a little bit of work while on vacation. 1- Establishing high goals. 18- Two ways.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

They might both be accomplished writers or editors, but for a particular project, each partner focuses on a single role, and their different foci make the partnership stronger. As investors, we are active partners to the founders and CEO. I am the invited partner in the room who is here to help this company succeed.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. I asked him if I could join his practice as the guy who could help him bridge technology & business. Finance weenies not geeks.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

This includes matters of personnel, matters of financing, matters of product strategy, matters of goal sizing, matters of marketing. We have great technology, but need marketing help.”. Read Jeff Bezos’ 3-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. Does the CEO know what to do? Want to see a great company story?

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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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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

After working as an administrator in the finance industry for years, I kept asking myself, am I really helping anyone with the work I do? We especially welcome men who work in the technology industry to give our virtual stylists a try. In 1997 we were IT consultants. Thanks to. #4 4 – A Meaningful Impact.

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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. This also eliminated the big risk for my potential investors that I wouldn’t be able to stay in the country, and so I was able to close the financing round for the company in November 1998. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Hilton E – Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur, discusses the impact of social media and technological innovation on culture, society and economic justice. Presented by John Gruber of Daring Fireball and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and The Deck Network. It means now is the best… ([link]. 03:30 PM: Moon 2.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Thanks to Dr. Victor Allis, CEO and founding partner, Quintiq ! #4) has transformed from a small information technology components firm into a comprehensive and full-service IT computer hardware and support solution provider, servicing over 20,000 clients across the country. 4) Used to Reconnect. Today, Aventis Systems, Inc.

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