Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2023

I get many more private emails in response to blog posts than comments. It’s like the Internet was in 1999 – ahead of its time. Well, that was interesting. Yesterday, in response to Reflecting on Ponzi Schemes , I got a few that said anyone under 35 needs a net native currency, and that’s crypto.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

(This post is running concurrently on the Return Path blog.). It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. I first blogged about this in 2004—14 years ago!— Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. online experience.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

How does physical stuff fit in with NextView’s investment thesis focused on the internet and the broad innovation wave it represents? For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below). The internet as we know it is 20ish years old.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? In early 1999 I made the decision to fulfill my lifelong dream to live and work in Japan. I will also cover how I accomplished this in a separate post but in early 1999 I arrived in Tokyo for the first time. So in that context let me use it.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

Follow him on twitter at @hertling or visit his blog williamhertling.com. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

I like doing anything and everything I can over the internet. Some might say this is because I am a college-aged millennial whose social skills have been stunted by technology, but I think it has more to do with the ease, convenience and immediacy the internet provides. The internet will prevail. Internet’s got your back.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. Consumer internet plays in Canada are rare, and finding a VC willing to give you the cash to scale is even more so.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! At dinner parties I was wrong for several years but I stuck to my guns.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# I started blogging 2 years ago. I did that? Back to zero. Here we go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. yeah, its awesome.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. The great thing is that via the Internet we CAN copy the principles of the best of them – Zappos’ and Mind Valley’s and scores of others are online for all to see. Pursue Global Markets.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. You’re right on about the urls though: I wrote a blog post about this a few months ago and used you guys as an example: [link]. But don’t act like there wasn’t years of leveraging your online presence and your blog followers before that product launched. Apr 27 2010. Sjoerd de Haan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog? Eric- I rarely comment on blogs, but I wanted to thank you for your efforts to disseminate the lean start-up techniques to build better companies that deliver products or services that people want. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Senate studying Chinese technocrats to the simple reality that the Internet and mobile phones make it crystal-clear to all who is winning and losing in the world (see N.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. Think Compaq when Dell first went direct over the phone then Internet. About how dismissive traditional print was about blogs or the airlines views the “peanut serving&# Southwest Airlines. Enter Salesforce.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2013

While controversial in 1999, DNS redirect-based services have become accepted across all ports and protocols. Last week, on the LinkedIn engineering blog, details on the new LinkedIn Intro app were shared. This weekend, LinkedIn made another blog post. If they’re not, the Internet community will do it for you.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. 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. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Email address: Home.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 31, 2014

The mega online shoe retailer, which was started in 1999 out of a house, has grown into a company that saw its 2008 sales hit $1 billion. Word of mouth is incredibly powerful and, in today’s Internet age, that word spreads at lightning speed! The Wow Philosophy. Your growth is dependant upon you having a favorable reputation.

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Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2013

Entrepreneur Zack Price is guest blogging his experience on the 2013 StartupBus as it makes its way from Chicago to SXSW in Austin. So I’m doing this bloggy thing here to spice up the usually instense BPlans.com Blog with a little humor and a light hearted look into the insanely crazy experience you now know as StartupBus.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

In the late nineties, internet IPOs were all the rage. One fine day in June of 1999 I was sitting at my desk, writing code, in the zone. There were no blogs or Twitter. In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone. It was crazy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

And now I can’t open a tech blog without reading about the new bubble or the Series A crunch. I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. From retro typefonts to Instagram filters to the recent neon craze in the fashion world, it seems we are cycling back in time.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

To help shine some light on this topic, I’ve decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 24, 2012

When we said in 1999 that we were internet-based they thought we were a sub-par company. Now when you say internet company, people take you seriously. What are some industry specific challenges you faced? . When we first started having vendors let us sell their product because they did not know who we were.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

It was a sunny day in August 1999 (I remember that because I was living in Santa Monica, CA at the time and every day was sunny). back to August 1999. And with the internet in its infancy there was no social media marketing I could do, nor job board-type sites that I could post on. It was August 1999. What," I reply.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Much of what Ive learned over the years has been invested in this blog, and that makes creating a sweeping summation challenging. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

In April 2011, just prior to the Linked In, Pandora, and RenRen IPO’s, Fred Wilson reaffirmed his belief on his blog that we were not in a bubble in this sector: “I n all the posts over the past year or so outlining my thoughts on the financing and valuation environment in the internet sector, I’ve avoided using the word Bubble.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 25, 2013

They made a trade sale in late 1999. Sydney has the 10th biggest Google engineering team in the world, yet it is the only the 28th biggest internet population. . So hard it is only now becoming functional 30 years later. NetMind: Alan was a cofounder of this startup, which he said never really made money.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. Investors loved anything Internet and could not care less about profits. Investors hated anything Internet and wouldn’t fund anything that couldn’t fund itself. It was the era of “go big or go home.”

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. Investors loved anything Internet and could not care less about profits. Investors hated anything Internet and wouldn’t fund anything that couldn’t fund itself. It was the era of “go big or go home.”

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Growthink Blog

MAY 18, 2010

Last week, Denver-based Internet Pawn (InternetPawn.com) raised $1.5 Conventional thinking would say that Internet Pawn was too late to the game and thus had no chance of success. million in funding from Daylight Partners and Access Ventures. To learn more about Growthink's business plan services, call 800-506-5728. read more.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Now my digital products, blog, classes and workshops serves women all over the world teaching them how to use yoga as a tool to juggle their busy life and kids without burning out! Over ten years ago, I began my social media and blogging business in an effort to provide for my family and simultaneously gain flexibility in my work schedule.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. Suppose you trace the history of Netflix, which we’ve invested in since 1999 and are still one of the largest shareholders. Do you have any books, podcasts, or blog posts that you recommend to CEOs thinking about growth in their startup? Welcome, David.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

by That realization coincided with his observation that Dharmesh Shah, Halligan’s future co-founder, was earning visibility with a personal blog: We started describing the way companies were traditionally marketing as “outbound marketing” and the way Dharmesh marketed OnStartups.com as “inbound marketing.”

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