Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

” Jerry was Fred Wilson ‘s partner at Flatiron Partners. 2000 was the Peak of Inflated Expectations. 2002 was the Trough of Disillusionment. 1995 – 2000 was the climb up to the Peak. 2001 – 2002 was the collapse to the Trough. Ponder Gartner’s Hype Cycle for a moment.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Moreover, the American labor force gained over ten million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2011. Of course, much of the losses in wages and salaries were a result of the recession but the proprietor trend has steadily increased every year since 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see how big people like Match.com and eHarmony became on the trend of helping us find our dating partners and why this would be improved my mobile, social networks.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. FROM OUR PARTNERS. ); ); ); ADVERTISEMENT.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 8, 2016

Formed in 2000 October Kitchen in Connecticut’s Premier meal delivery service serving central Connecticut. She has owned and run 3 businesses of her own and in 2002 became a certified business coach with Action Coach, formerly ACTION INTERNATIONAL. Corporate Partners. LINKS: www.actioncoach.com/marciehanhart.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. 4) Are these investment partners for the long haul?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Um, he and his partner took Red Hat to an IPO early days, and Bob found himself with a lot of time and a lot of money, and a lot of people wanted to hear his story. So when Lulu started in 2002, so about 20 years ago, we just celebrated our 20th anniversary. Most of your listeners probably know what it is.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. What the big studies have shown. companies covering the period 1982–99, which included a recession during 1990–91.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. You knew it all along.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC. The US government, however, lost most of the $2 billion it put into SBIC firms.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2015

And how hard was it to explain it to your partners and your peers? The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend — now wife — Amy Batchelor. The last three months of 2001 were awful for me after an 18-month stretch from the peak of the Internet bubble — spring 2000 through Sept.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

The company announced that is just completed $13M in financing from existing investors SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures, and Trellis Partners. These are some things to think about when pricing products dynamically, but I’m sure Zilliant’s products are not just focused on realtime web. So why raise money?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. You knew it all along.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

million ad featured in the 2000 Superbowl. Part of the problem was that the company bought into its own hype, but the bigger sin was that Pets.com’s owners—Hummer Winblad Venture Partners—ignored the fundamentals. By 2002, New Coke was dead. The sock puppet’s most notable appearance was in an eyebrow-raising $1.2

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. The biggest value I can probably offer you is that I would talk about what youre working on. Jay Smooth. Kenyatta Cheese. Lynne Johnson. Matt Haughey. Maura Johnston. Natalie Podrazik.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. So if you are techie, find a founding partner that is a hustler. If you are hustler, find a superb techie as founding partner.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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