1993 Entrepreneur Internet 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 2, 2010
It’s the story of persistence in entrepreneurs. As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. I try not to go out to entrepreneur events in LA every night – I have work to get done and a family.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2014
Amy likes to remind me that when I was an entrepreneur, I used to regularly give talks at MIT about entrepreneurship. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. I’d say – very bluntly – “stay away from VCs.”
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Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
Len and his partner Jerry Poch bought my first company in 1993. The company was decimated by the collapse of the Internet bubble and ultimately went bankrupt. Each of these relationships are long term ones – Len and I since 1993 and Charlie and I since I was born in 1965. Following are two examples from my own life.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 1, 2014
Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” ” As a result, “More people can and will be entrepreneurs than ever before” because “a lot more people can raise $100,000 than raise $3,000,000.”
YoungUpstarts
MAY 7, 2012
Business ventures build on top of one another like Lego towers — they don’t spring Athena-like from the foreheads of entrepreneurs, no matter what some may claim. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept. Anyone with a strong idea, a lot of luck, and even more hard work can succeed in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.
Start Up Blog
JULY 7, 2014
It wasn’t so long ago that these statements were made about the internet as a commercial platform: It’s for nerds. There will never be any internet payments. No one will put their credit card on the internet. It’s an open-source kind of thing so there will be no Internet companies. It’s slow.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2010
Ive been helping create software and Internet companies for over 25 years, starting with my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1985 when I was in college. We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business.
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