Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

In 2007, when we set out to raise our first Foundry Group fund, early stage tech VC was in the shitter. No one believed that you could make any money as an early stage VC and when we went out to raise our first fund, we heard over and over again that we were on a fools errand. But is wasn’t always this way.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

If we fund an early stage startup company today and it’s hugely successful, it’ll be coming into its own in 2025. Harmonix missed the cash gusher of the Internet bubble almost entirely while it pursued ideas that bombed miserably, one after another. Ponder that for a moment. I’ll be 60 in 2025.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

Bullpen is one of a growing number of early-stage funds - or, perhaps more accurately, "earlier-stage," since even his is no longer the first out of the gate. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities.

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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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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women. She is also an Angel Investor in early stage businesses. Agenda: 4-speaker panel on February 28th, 6:30-9pm. 6:30 Registration. 7:00 Panel discussion. 8:00 Panel Q&A. 8:30 Networking.

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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. Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us through the Yahoo! acquisition.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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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. AppFog creating "high-hurdle" experiments to surface authentic early adopters with real pain. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population. Today we’re online 3.1

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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. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Their late stage deals outside of the venture centers outperform by ~5% vs. those in the venture centers; early stage deals outperformed by ~4%. Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York. Create opportunities, instead of waiting for opportunities to appear.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 8, 2004

I have always been a big believer of the hosted software or ASP (application service provider) model since we made our first investment in LivePerson in January 1999. And back then, many large enterprise customers were not willing to have their data hosted with an early stage, private company. The world is changing.

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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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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. The whole risk capital industry aims towards what is known as ‘early stage investments,’ sprouting new companies.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. Never in the history of venture capital have early stage startups had access to so much capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market). I thought that, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

You may feel as I did in 1999 that the more smart people around the table the more intros you’ll have, the more sage advice you’ll receive and the more impressive you’ll seem to outsiders. I know that a lot of VCs had roadkill in the Internet Video 1.0 If you select a lead VC make sure they’re stage appropriate.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5% This makes little sense when you consider the differential risks of loss associated with those two very different stages of investments.

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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. Guidewire Group is a global market intelligence and advisory firm focused on technology entrepreneurship in early-stage companies and emerging technology markets. billion in 2010.

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