Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

In 2003 I seriously thought about quitting Mobius Venture Capital. My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. The depressive episode only lasted three months, but the s**t show continued through 2002 as most VCs and Internet companies suffered a massive collapse. Here’s an example.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

While I am extremely proud of that team’s accomplishments (the parent company recombined Nordstrom.com in 2002 and the direct division now has revenue of over $1.25B and is the fastest growing unit inside of Nordstrom ), I built a healthy respect for the complexities and difficulties of managing women’s fashion inventory.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment."

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. 9:30 – 11:30).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Venture Capital Matters. The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011).

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. This year, the panel included Steve Jurveston from DFJ, Vinod Khosla from Khosla Ventures, Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital, Roger McNamee from Elevation Partners and Joe Schoendorf from Accel.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

I’ve been through the “what’s next” discussion with Amy several times, including in 2004 when I doubled down on Mobius Venture Capital (instead of packing it up and calling it quits), in 2006 when we decided to start Techstars and Foundry Group, and again in 2013 after spending six months being extremely depressed.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

I eventually co-founded SoftBank Technology Partners (which became Mobius Venture Capital) and SoftBank (the corporation) became a 50% LP in Flatiron with Chase. The tension of the Internet bubble bursting hadn’t started yet, but I was already exhausted and negotiating basically all the time with everyone about everything.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 internet. (6). Venture Capital. (3). How the use of internet is transform. Explore Venture Capital. Cracking The Code. for Lawson?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere. Neuroscience Solutions Corporation (founded in 2002 and rebranded to BrainHQ ), Lumosity (founded in 2005) and Fitbrains (2007, now a Rosetta Stone company) are the most well known examples of second wave cognitive gaming.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. The first generation of internet entrepreneurs did well, but they were “single country winners” – they were always “the French or German e-commerce company”, for example.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

From DeSantis : Investments in education-technology companies nationwide tripled in the last decade, shooting up to $429-million in 2011 from $146-million in 2002, according to the Na­tional Venture Capital Association.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day. If your desire was to make yourself look like an ignorant internet troll … I believe you have succeeded.

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