1999 2000 Finance Sales 
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed. This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. Or a quick flip.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking. Biggest lessons ….
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www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Finance | Tuesdays. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. SALES & MARKETING. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. The Funding Problem.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005. I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. I suffered through the next financing after implementing a complex structure, or a sale of the company, or a liquidation.
finance.fortune.cnn.com
AUGUST 21, 2012
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. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%). Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
They see it as a source of differentiation for them as a company because their less financed competitors can’t afford it (and often their careers are wrapped up in the multi-millions of dollars they’ve spent implementing it). In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco.
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