Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2023

It cost me nothing to Paypal him the money. It would have cost me $19.37 That has nothing to do with the transaction cost. And free checking accounts, although I guess it would cost me $0.60 It’s like the Internet was in 1999 – ahead of its time. 1/15/23 9:51 PM MT: $21,158.55 for a stamp.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Yu Yongfu is the chairman and CEO of UCWeb , whose mission is to provide a better mobile Internet experience to billions of users around the world. Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital. Cultural immersion.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Napster arrived in June, 1999. But I digress…).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks. 40% of costs are labor, 40% are materials and 20% are overheads.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

Therefore, each project attracts a premium cost. In 1999, a company known as Texas Instruments produced a DLP Cinema projector. A huge number of films which were made before 1999 were analog in nature. Furthermore, it can also be beamed to cinemas and TV screens right through the Internet.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

The larger companies claimed that the cost of replacement and integration was not worth any savings that the enterprise could potentially realize, and that the risk of deploying with a startup was too high for mission critical functions. Best of breed solutions have exponentially multiplied, in both the enterprise and consumer sectors.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. Moshe says that the Israeli economy is in good shape and has momentum, yet has a cloudy forecast ahead of it.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2015

While the Indian Trademark Office has been constantly trying to complete the mammoth task of clearing several thousands of trademark applications pending before it at various stages of prosecution, fulfilling the following steps would help you to protect your trademark in India quickly and cost-effectively.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever. I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. I have the purchase history to prove it.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

These costs are much higher than those for IPOs, even accounting for IPO Pops; SPAC shares tend to drop by one third of their value or more within a year following a merger, leaving investors who hold shares post de-SPAC most vulnerable to price declines; and SPAC investors typically differ from de-SPAC investors. 1999-2000 51.6%

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999. Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Altor Networks was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Israel’s Internet security giant Check Point. The lightweight wind turbine is said to reduce installation costs by at least 50 percent. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3 billion in 2010.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. These include the hiring of virtual assistants, which lowers operational costs while increasing the level of productivity. . By outsourcing services, the small business owner can capitalize on comparative advantages in costs, particularly labor. . From a company worth $1.6

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

As the threat of cyberattacks grows, training in safe internet use and responding to external threats is vital for all IT workers. Last year, cybersecurity breaches cost businesses around the world $400 billion. The threat is growing, with cybersecurity attacks expected to cost global businesses $2.1 The statistics don’t lie.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I have raised capital 3 times before so I knew the drill.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

In 2012, total entrepreneurial activity in the United States hit its highest level since their survey started in 1999, according to Babson College. The opportunity for change is huge, with everyone taking a new look at the world after the recession, but the competition is also huge, since the cost of entry is at an all-time low.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

What’s different this time around (as opposed to the tech bubble of the late 1990s) is the widespread use of technology, “digital natives” (millennials who grew up with the Internet and mobile phones) coming of age, and a cultural shift towards self-employment and risk taking (again, powered by stark economic realities).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When new companies enter the market they really have no chance to initially unseat the incumbents because the performance gap is too large and the costs / time of catching up too unachievable. In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. Enter Salesforce.com. They can’t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*). Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. These can add millions to the cost of doing business. At any rate, it seems only appropriate that social media sites, which have dominated the Internet over the past few years, will likely lead startups back into the IPO game.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

I told him that I would make sure I’d get my costs covered by clients. It was 1999 and I had valuable Internet skills. I told him I knew people in that office, my peers. He told me he didn’t need more Americans. I told him I would work hard. He told me that business wasn’t good enough. He told me no again.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Sure, there are many other events, including eTail and Internet Retailer. It is a non-profit, unlike eTail or Internet Retailer (today I hear that Shoptalk is the biggest eCommerce conference), and it is where the highest level people in digital retail go as a result. But Shop.org is where you go to learn and network.

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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. That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Cost: $15/Members of HBS Angels of NY and/or HBS Club of NY; $40/Non-members & Guests. through the Yahoo! acquisition. Includes buffet dinner. Organizers: Nikhil Kalghatgi MBA ’11, David Teten MBA ‘98.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 24, 2012

The Bridal Association of America reports that the average cost for a wedding’s invitations and reply cards is $659. (If 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. It’s pretty fascinating.)

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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. Conventional thinking would say that Internet Pawn was too late to the game and thus had no chance of success. That's invaluable experience.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

From April 1999 until June 2006, Mr. Dahl served as the head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group, a leading private equity firm, where he was responsible for the firm’s investments in the healthcare field. Cost: $20 Members of HBSCT and/or HBS Angels of NY; $30 Non-members & Guests. Thursday, February 28th.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Facebook is doing billions in revenues. LinkedIn has great revenue growth. stock market."

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

As more of our personal relationships move online, social media becomes a very cost-effective way to strengthen a firm’s corporate relationships. For example, an increase in internet traffic is usually a sign of customer traction. Since 1999, its Partners have made over 160 investments in over 55 companies.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Typically this includes the mortgage, property taxes, and management costs (if the investor decides to hire a property management company). Thanks to the internet, we have access to dozens of passive income ideas. The internet makes information so easily accessible, we can learn anything we want now. billion dollars.

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