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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

20012007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. The story starts in 2007 with the founding of EFCO , which Ryan and I spearheaded and had a huge punch line in 2013 when Rally Made a Gift of $1.3

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What Just Happened

Feld Thoughts

2001 was a dreadful year for me. 2004 was the beginning of what I now refer to as “the grind,” which ended for me around 2007. I was wrong, and then 9/11 happened, and then Enron and Worldcom happened, and business kept getting worse. 2002 sucked, but it wasn’t as dreadful. But it still sucked. 2003 was hard.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” Hyundai’s Assurance program, which debuted during the 2007–08 financial crisis, is a great example.

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. The world had just gone into crisis and I was in a period of reflection reminiscent of September 2001. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

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