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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

I was one of the most prolific Internet angel investors in Boston at this point (1994 – 1995) so our paths crossed periodically. Charley proposed being a “SOFTBANK Affiliate” which had a small monthly retainer, a deal fee for anything I brought in, and a carry on the performance of any investments I sourced.

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How Does A Small Company Make A Big Company Successful?

Feld Thoughts

When I started investing in 1994, I was involved with a few large companies. During the same time, I started working as an affiliate to Softbank which was a large Japanese company acquiring minority and majority interests in lots of US companies.

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Project: The Story of Jeff Bezos' $250,000 Investment into Google in 1998

Growthink Blog

Remember this was 1998 not 1994. or its affiliates. Invest in People. At the time of Bezo’s investment, there were a large number of very well-funded and far more successful search engines already on the market. Alta Vista. Webcrawler. Inktomi and GoTo to name just a few.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Highly regarded private SBIC, **Sutter Hill Affiliate, Norwegian Shipping Family, +B of A’s SBIC. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” S & S. $ 225,000. Mayfield III. $ 500,000. BJ Cassin. $ 75,000. 1,250,000. Total. This isn’t correct either. A good example is Symantec.

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How and When to Use Sex to Sell More

ConversionXL

Seven units were sold every second in its 1994 heyday – 1.6m For Affiliate Marketing traffic, landing page C resulted in a 39% increase in sign ups over landing page A and a 30% increase in sign ups over landing page B. The Wonderbra ‘Hello Boys’ campaign is a great example. in that year alone. Results: Version C kicked butt!