Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. It’s a wonderfully compelling idea, but it’s a little like video streaming in 1994: the hardware simply isn’t there yet. It’s proven accurate on many occasions. And it’s the same technique that I’ve used, as a writer, to create realistic technothrillers set in the near future.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Andrew Chen said CTRs have fallen from a high of 78 percent in 1994 (via HotWire) to.05 Since this change in the OpenGraph, both products have seen their traffic decline. Paid advertising channels follow the same pattern. 05 percent CTR on Facebook in 2011.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 6, 2019

A number of lawsuits followed, like in 1994 when a Texas man was awarded $15 million as compensation for accidentally shooting himself in the foot when using this rifle on a hunting trip. Their Model 700 and Model 710 rifles were recalled because of a faulty firing control system.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

When I first started investing as an angel investor in 1994, I was focused on a very simple set of criteria. He looked at me and gave me that “yeah – we should do this” look. And that was it. As an investor for the past 20 years, I’ve had this happen many times. First, did I care about / have affinity for the product?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

I was one of the most prolific Internet angel investors in Boston at this point (1994 – 1995) so our paths crossed periodically. .” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax. Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

24: The Unaired 1994 – [link]. Extraordinary story of undiscovered, self-taught 20th century photography master Vivian Maier – [link]. Incredible Video of Flash Flood Washing Away Cars In Queensland – [link]. Phenomenal. Snowboarding Alaska’s backcountry from 7.7 thousand feet – [link].

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) People told me it was impossible to have our product launch featured on one of the top tech blogs without spending $3,000 on some fancy PR agency. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding. Any investor who knew anything about books, didn’t invest.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael Parekh , a Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and Founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the ’90s. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

QR Code technology was first developed in 1994 by a Japanese company called Denso Wave. Their other uses include: Direct links for downloading apps from the Apple App or Google Play stores. Authenticating accounts over the internet and verifying login information. Sending and receiving payment details.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

Dell – the American multinational computer technology firm had broken the barrier of a million-dollar online sales back in 1994. This transition from the traditional business model to a complete online sales became a popular revenue trend during this time.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

After I sold my company and started investing in companies in 1994, Charlie and I talked regularly about the Internet, which was just emerging as something that large companies should pay attention to. Charlie started his own company, The Feld Group, in 1992 , when my company (Feld Technologies) was five years old.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 19, 2010

He said that it would cost about $300 to fix it, but that the dishwasher was installed in 1994 (16 year ago; well before we bought the house) and that it was probably a better bet to just buy a new one. Step 3: The repair guy came, gave us a bill for $95.07 for showing up and diagnosing the problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

1994 – present. Despite the difficulties in gathering it, angel return data has gradually accumulated over time and the verdict is in: we’ve looked at a dozen different studies of angel returns , and they show returns ranging from 18% to 54%. . Average Angel Returns Over Time. Time Period. Total Investments. Exited Investments. 2009-10.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. Over two decades have passed since he made that statement, but the Internet has helped change the banking landscape remarkably.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 24, 2015

They met and married in China in 1994. They met and married in China in 1994. The company exists to delight both children and the adults who love them by transforming everyday, functional kids’ accessories into objects that excite their imaginations and enrich their lives at play. In essence, Kidorable is a love story.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

Department of the Treasury oversees the CDFI program, which was established in 1994 to make capital accessible to struggling communities. Often when a bank says no to a small business, a community lender will find a way to say yes, because their focus is on the community, not on a return on investment to shareholders.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I know that any time ads are mentioned it makes the blood boil on any self respecting technologist the same way it did when HotWire ran their first ad in 1994 and the way it made Google’s blood boil when Overture launched the sponsored search category.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet. Nike was born when Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman recognized the hidden potential of a waffle iron to improve soles for running shoes. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” Exabyte, one of Colorado’s hottest deals, was formed in 1985; Connor Peripherals (fastest growing company in the history of technology manufacturing, four years to $1 billion in revenue) raised its first round in 1987. “By This isn’t correct either.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. People point to Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic browser as the point at which everything changed, but that’s not what actually happened. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2017

One of the reasons I started investing in the blockchain space 4 years ago was the rush I got learning about the tech at my first bitcoin conference – akin to the chills I got when I first logged into the Internet in 1994, when I was deeply passionate about more equal access to education.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Millennials are those born between 1980 and 1994. Also, Gen X is populated by lots of mid-life families. To reach this generation, try beefing up your marketing strategy with family nights and value menus. Millennials. This generation is much more technology-focused than previous ones, so increase your online presence.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

Will is finishing up his 31st angel investment (we’ve done a bunch together – including my very first one – NetGenesis in 1994) and he walks through what he’s learned from 16 years of angel investing. For context, I’ve made over 75 direct angel investments primarily in two time periods – 1994-1996 and 2006-2007.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 2, 2024

When Lori Hawkins joined the Austin American Statesman in 1994 to cover technology, the city looked vastly different from what it does today. Dell was just ten years old at the time. It was the dawn of the information age, an economy built on computers, software, and the commercial Internet. For the next three decades, […]

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts. The only way the chip vendor could fix the problem was to physically revise the chip and put out a new version.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

He graduated from the University of Utah with Honors in 1994 with a BA in Accounting and earned his MACC from Southern Utah University in 1995. William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. He is a licensed CPA in the State of Utah.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In 1994 it formed the Joint Commission International (JCI), which works with medical tourism businesses and healthcare organizations in over 100 countries today. Joint Commission International. The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (ICAHO) is the United States’ most well-known healthcare accreditation organization.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). Of course, upcoming IPOs like Snapchat will bring some added excitement to the industry. We also believe that we’ll get more clarity on what the next platform will be.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Back in 1994, very few people would have predicted that the largest bookseller in the world would be a software company. As a result of smart phones replacing feature phones, the internet will double in size over the next five years. Software is eating the world.

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