Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). .” The first week of 2016 in the public markets has been an entertaining reminder of this.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Andrew Chen responded to that with a thoughtful post about how the ‘funding goalposts continue to move’ Here’s the money quote: It’s been widely noted that investing milestones have evolved quickly over time: In 1998, you’d raise $5M Series A with an idea and not much else.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. The New Exits. Wide Adoption. Facebook, Android/Apple App store.)

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market. Music distribution—the largest music distributor in the world is a technology company, Apple; its largest potential threat, Spotify, is a software company. Thirdly, the market is far bigger.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2014

Marc Andreessen and Eric Ries were tweeting how many of 1998-2000 web startup ideas failed but are succeeding now. A distribution relationship? Big market but wrong time vs right time. If a new entrant came into this space today, what’s your moat, your defensible lead? Is there an insight you uniquely have? A network effect?

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

as well as a more detailed description of the distribution of outcomes: Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and NESTA Angel Investing Study. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. and the U.K.,

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. Update (08/15/2010 11:23 PM): Patrick Vlaskovits posted a great followup to my post above on his blog: Distribution and Pricing Hypotheses with LOIs. Our products were iClass, then iMeet, iServe and iShow.). The product worked.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

By Mickie Kennedy, founder of eReleases , the online leader in affordable PR distribution since 1998. You can even use it to moderate any fan pages you’ve set up, and of course analyze them as well! Grab your free copy of Ultimate Guide to Pinterest here, a must-read for the small business professional.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

as well as a more detailed description of the distribution of outcomes: Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and NESTA Angel Investing Study. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. and the U.K.,

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 20, 2019

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. Figuring out who you’re going to sell your product to, and building the distribution for it also takes time. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Akamai: The Present. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

Tom Webster: Yeah, it sprung out of a study that we’ve been doing since 1998, called the Infinite Dial. You look at some of the NPRs of the world that are using a significant distribution. So tell me about the series, the study, and I guess a little bit of the methodology, and why you do it and all that good stuff.

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Jason Ball

AUGUST 19, 2009

The data were collected between October, 1998 and. December, 2005 and reflect the distribution of all ratings received by. Netflix provided. 100480507 ratings (on a scale from 1 to 5 integral stars) along with. their dates from 480189 randomly-chosen, anonymous subscribers on 17770. movie titles. Netflix during this period.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Teten : I’m not sure I agree, as inevitably some people will look like geniuses in a random distribution of outcomes. Can you prove that more of these people exist than one would expect from random distribution of outcomes of investing in the public markets? We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

“The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. Interesting to watch Google’s approach to its digital distribution model – compared to Apple’s – [link]. Avoid Decision by Indecision – [link]. Is Apple a bit too greedy?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Gordonsville, Virginia-based PBM manufactures and distributes over-the-counter store-brand infant formula and baby foods sold by retailers in the mass, club, grocery and drug channels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. and was founded in 1998. AMDOCS BUYS LEADING UK MOBILE COMPANY MX TELECOM.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After managing a distribution center where I sold vinyl to record stores (my first client was Asheville’s own Harvest Records), renting the farmhouse was about becoming self-sufficient. My parents did not wish to see me as struggling artists and thus I was enrolled in Bachelor of Business course in Australia.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 29, 2010

He talks about how he build his audience using podcasts, which are distributed via iTunes. The Myth Of The Big List Yaro Starak Sending Email Since 1998 Yaro Starak is the founder of Entrepreneurs-Journey, has blogged for more than five years and earned his living from the Internet for more than ten years.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

MobileAccess, formerly Foxcom Wireless, was founded in 1998. The company develops distributed antenna system (DAS) solutions for wireless telecommunications coverage inside buildings. World-leading optical connectivity company Corning Inc has acquired Israeli wireless network solutions developer MobileAccess Ltd.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you’re latter day Gen X or a Millennial you probably played it on your parents’ Nokia – it came preloaded on all the company’s phones after 1998. On top of that, there was an open and democratic market for third-party game designers and distribution channels that led directly to players. Remember Snake?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. This is really an exciting panel to be a part of. Bates: Fantastic. Bates: You know Josh—.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets. It was 75 years until studios had to deal with technology changing their platform and distribution channel.

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