Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2015

“We will never need another financing.” ” “This financing will get us to cash flow breakeven.” ” “This is our last financing before we become profitable.” And need money to fund their operations. Ask one of your friends who was a CEO of an Internet company in 2001.).

Finance 70

Finance Bootstrapping Acquisition Revenue 70

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . The order of operations may surprise you. As practitioners of high finance,” writes Ron Chernow in The House of Morgan, the Morgans: cultivate a discreet style. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.”

Customer 108

Customer Differentiation West Virginia Campaign 108

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . The order of operations may surprise you. As practitioners of high finance,” writes Ron Chernow in The House of Morgan, the Morgans: cultivate a discreet style. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.”

Customer 101

Customer Differentiation West Virginia Campaign 101

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

Without mass adoption of document management technology across compliance-centric industries such as finance, accounting, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare, and human resources (industries vital to the lifeblood of the economy) digital data breaches and the un-secureness of paper-dependent processes will persist.

Management 100

Management Technical Review Albuquerque Security 100

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. VC’s fund their salaries and operations through management fees, which typically equal 2% per year. But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary.

Burn Rate 263

Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. They are operators, through and through.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I look for firms in which some of the partners (my partner) have operational experience and know what it’s like to wake up every day and be an entrepreneur. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. Amazon trades better than both with a price of 24 times last year’s cashflow. Secondly, developers are more productive.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Venture Financings we Discussed. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS). Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. I’ve already started the business modeling.

San Francisco 230

San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

In 2001, I moved from Citibank to become the CMO of Morgan Stanley’s brokerage business, where I was tasked with modernizing and reviving the brokerage business there. Can you talk about how you went from finance marketing to the kinds of innovation projects GE started taking on eventually, which was when we first got acquainted?

Southern California 123

Southern California North America Finance Lean 123

BeyondVC

AUGUST 9, 2006

The best plan in my mind is to make sure that any company we invest in has a tremendous market opportunity with a real business model and high operating margins that can eventually generate real cash flow. Sure I have a plan when I invest, but it is impossible to predict the future. The accounting method we are required to use.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review IPO SEC Stock 60

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I began my career at McKinsey and when the Internet bubble burst in 2001, I made a shift towards online software (ASP at the time). They also need VCs capable of financing their entire life cycle — on average, SaaS startups raise between $80 and $100 million before an IPO.

API 48

API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Joe Zhu is a quick study with a natural desire to offer assistance anytime, anywhere startups face marketing, operational, and financing challenges. For SmartHealth, it is in the midst of raising its first investment fund as well as setting up its international operations. We wish him all the best and continued success.”

Illinois 77

Illinois Chicago Entrepreneur Cofounder 77

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. The mantra was as follows: “no one is coming to save us, we are going to make it on our own&#. Warning sign? At best. ~

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. Many “me, too&# companies will perish.

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. The question is why? Everything's better with the lean model.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

By 2001, he was invested in the stock market and witnessed a unique situation where the stock market was in a tumble and, simultaneously, real estate was going up. Investment advisors will ask you all about your finances, so be sure to also ask them about their own finances. Early Career in Real Estate .

New York City 106

New York City Marketing Technical Review New York 106

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

However, Cadre is awfully vague for a startup in the finance / commerce space. According to a study from the Nielsen Norman Group , this is how homepages looked then vs. now… To summarize the data, today… We have less operating system and browser overhead. Is having a short homepage ok? Of course it is.

Conversion 48

Conversion Search Design Vertical 48

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

This doesn’t concern any specific industry, but that kind of behavioral finance. We do that primarily through leading financings. On Deciens’ Lean Operation. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. That scares me. The lack of rigor and the lack of specificity concerns me. On Balancing Optimism and Improbability.

Silicon Valley 88

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I was working on putting together dinners with potential female operators who were interested in becoming venture capitalists. That meant that if the change was starting on the founders side, then there had to be a change on the financing side.

Founder 68

Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Finance Jobs |. Personal Finance. » More. » More.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

No company survives solely based on its marketing, its technology, its operations, or any other factor. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. The company functions as a whole. In order to be successful, C-suite leaders cannot get bogged down in their own department’s issues.

Algorithm 165

Algorithm Analytics Social Media Metrics 165

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo. In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Even though they started with $250,00 they used what is called “negative cash converting cycle financing.” Photo by earthlightbooks.

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78