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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
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.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2015
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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Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 23, 2014
” With Mattermark , I remember the moment clearly – I was at The Kitchen in Boulder with the founders (Danielle Morrill, Kevin Morrill, and Andy Sparks) and my partner Seth. Last, did I want to be a long term partner with the entrepreneurs? This kicked me in the ass very, very hard between 2001 and 2004.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
“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.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. So at GRP Partners we’re very active now. I believe that. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs.
Austin Startup
APRIL 27, 2019
It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. We pivoted to sell to traditional retailers, which had only begun to sell online, after letting go of 2/3rds of our people, many who I considered close friends. And in the mid-1980s, that guardian angel was Aldus PageMaker.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 28, 2014
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.” it made the difference between not being able to do it, not having the money.”
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