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

AUGUST 28, 2009

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. Reach out to the founders, not the staff.

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PR Software Review Ireland Germany 331

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. But I digress…).

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

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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Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. June 19th, 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2020

Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999. McGrath is the founder of the Kip McGrath Education Centres, a franchise business that offers the opportunity for teachers to own a tutoring centre. For the younger generation, the Norris Nuts are the new internet superstars.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

Our professors were literally rewriting the case studies in real time and my participation in the very first Internet Marketing class the GSB ever offered is a form of carbon dating that conclusively proves my old age. As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0 Absolutely!

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.) If you like to read IPO prospectuses, here’s the final S-1 filing after INIT went effective and started trading on July 8, 1999. A few days ago, Fred Wilson wrote a post titled Capitulation?

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Prospectus IPO Cofounder Internet 80

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. 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.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. https://stitchfix.com/gifts.

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eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

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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CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration.

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It is basically a return to the type of VC that was done 20 years ago long before the craziness of the Internet boom that skewed things so greatly. This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. I could obviously go on.

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Silicon Valley Deal Flow Angel Investor Cofounder 306

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We invested in the company in 1999 during the ascension of the Internet bubble. We loved the two founders, Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice, but knew very little about marketplace businesses or the home improvement category. We learned this dynamic in the early 2000’s with our investment in ServiceMagic.

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Seattle Metrics Cofounder Finance 149

Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

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.&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011.

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IPO Finance Valuation Naming 391

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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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle.

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San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize. Since its organization in 1999, SHARE has become the biggest microfinance institution in India, and its success has prompted other banks to begin their own microfinance programs.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. Mike Yavonditte, CEO, Hashable.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

This is dangerous, especially for founders. The last was dinner with Alex Rigopulos, the co-founder of Harmonix, which he co-founded with Eran Egozy in 1995, sold in 2007, bought back in 2010, and is still running today. In 1999, the year an online pet store fronted by a sock puppet raised $50 million, Harmonix was laying off staff.

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Boston Cofounder Early Stage Founder 70

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. Strategy and Planning. Human Resources (HR). Employee Benefits. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Advertising. TECHNOLOGY.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

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. But if you ask the company founder, Nick Swinmurn, it’s not shoes that he’s selling; rather, its customer service. Your growth is dependant upon you having a favorable reputation.

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Customer Reputation Sales Internet 97

Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The collapse of the Internet bubble was not kind to us and by 2005 it was clear that our second fund – raised in 1999 – was a disaster, and our third fund – raised in 2000 – was off to a very rocky start. In early 2006, my partners at Mobius and I decided not to raise another fund.

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LP Advisory Board Venture Capital Early Stage 155

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering. Balloch earned a BS degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She is also an Angel Investor in early stage businesses.

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Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2013

One of the thoughtful notes I got was from Scott Petry – one of my good friends and co-founder of Authentic8 (we are investors). While controversial in 1999, DNS redirect-based services have become accepted across all ports and protocols. If they’re not, the Internet community will do it for you.

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Oauth Security Cofounder API 151

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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Cofounder Finance Internet Founder 78

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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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. And this is one of the pillars we talk about internally, but also to our founders. Our advice to our founders is that they’re underpinned by a few pillars we discussed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Founding Akamai. Akamai found itself truly inside the tornado.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. My fiancé is one of the best ideation consultants in the world (the brain), he was a top rated mentor at Founder Institute and has built and sold numerous successful businesses. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999.

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