Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I’ve only worked in what could be considered a “big” company for 18 months (1993 – 1995) and that was the company (AmeriData) that bought my first company (Feld Technologies). My partner Dave and I took the number, made a list of all employees, and figured out how much we were going to give each of them.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In addition, although executives in the business make the decisions, it is the employees — the underdogs — who are out on the frontline, selling, interacting with customers, and creating the products that keep the business functioning. How did they interact with customers? What did they need to be more effective? What Do You Stop Doing?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

Data is moved, updated, or maintained by repetitive processes that are done manually, squandering time and employee-resources. Anything that a human performs with a mouse and a keyboard can be automated by Foxtrot, the “digital employee,” freeing up employees’ time to perform other business-related tasks.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. For example, Twelve has partnered with Daimler and can recreate ingredients needed to make car parts. Starbucks puts its employees first in a number of ways. Their 401k matching program is extremely significant for employees.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In addition, today’s advancements in technology have disrupted the workforce, transforming the nature of work, and has afforded businesses the ability to become more productive as they restructure their workflow and employee workload. Gain more from your employees. Invest in disruptive technologies.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2021

So much so, that the internet is already filled with articles such as “ 5 money lessons millennials can learn from Gen Z ”, explaining how those who were born after 1995 are improving the ways in which they make a profit. Gen Zers also tend to focus on the impact of their investments and seek for socially responsible investing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The company now has more than 160,000 employees and revenues of $44 billion. As an entrepreneur, she grew EBay from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue, before moving on to HP. He built an overnight competitor to the U.S. Postal Service.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Holy sh*t!!!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2013

The company now has more than 200,000 employees and revenues of $21 billion. As an entrepreneur, she grew EBay from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue, before moving on to HP. He built an overnight competitor to the U.S. Postal Service.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The company now has more than 160,000 employees and revenues of $44 billion. As an entrepreneur, she grew EBay from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue, before moving on to HP. He built an overnight competitor to the U.S. Postal Service.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The company, Danatec, sold paper-based course materials for corporate trainers to use in safety training of employees. Your business success is influenced by many different types of people: prospects, customers, employees, funders, suppliers, distributors and even the public at large. Growth also strains employees physically.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Holy sh*t!!!

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. Second, the Board can usually avoid a public vote or referendum by leasing to a new partner, something politicians fear. Later stage Private Equity buyers rely more on existing hospital management and employees than in other industries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. It's the only always-equal partnership, and the only way you can have an always-equal partnership, where new people join as equal partners, is for the older partners to get out of the way when they're not as productive. Employees are not entrepreneurs.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. According to Modi Rosen, general partner of Magma Ventures, “The challenge of scaling is primarily in hiring for the sales and marketing front. Think Bigger. This takeaway surprised us.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

"We are encouraging all of our companies to put in place a dual-class share structure if and when they go public, said Marc Andreessen, a general partner at the firm, which has taken stakes in 156 tech enterprises over the past three years. billion in an effort to meet new deficit targets agreed with euro-zone partners. POST A JOB.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Arbor brewing company was set up in the summer of 1995 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by the husband-wife duo of Matt and Rene Greff. But our partner, Gaurav was from U of M (University of Michigan) and had spent a lot of time at the Brewpub. Once you have your own business, it is not possible to work as an employee with someone else.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2016

More human employees will be required to not only configure and manage the automation technologies, create and develop new products and services, but also to perform front-facing, customer service roles. Prior to founding EnableSoft in 1995, Richard was a partner and served as Senior Vice President of FiTech PLUSmark, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2018

Richard Lipman has been a member of L’Ordre des psychologues du Québec since 1995. His diverse clientele includes adults and older adolescents; he also has partnered with the Employee Assistance Programs of several national organizations. “It He also is a member of L’Association des psychologues du Québec.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

I wrote it in 1978 but didn’t self-publish until 1995. Whenever I drift into that sort of criticism, I’m reminded of how many incredible young people are serving in our armed forces or holding down the home fort while their partners are away. The business end of promoting my work leaves me absolutely cold.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2017

Mother-Friendly employers proactively support employees who choose to breastfeed their infants by providing time, space, and other supports to maintain breastfeeding after returning to work. Austin-based SpareFoot has joined more than 2,600 worksites across Texas by becoming an official Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

My partners at Greylock and I have invested in a number of young founding CEOs who match this pattern and are doing a fantastic job leading their companies through hypergrowth, such as Brian Chesky of AirBnB and Drew Houston of Dropbox. James Slavet, a partner at Greylock, introduced me to Jeff Weiner. What am I world-class at?

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 13, 2011

One of my portfolio company CEOs, Will Tumulty of Ready Financial , is a former Navy SEAL (1990-1995). Brendan went on to HBS and McKinsey after the SEALs and then started his own hedge fund with a partner, so he had an interesting, multi-faceted perspective. The discussion was wide-ranging and entertaining.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 3, 2019

That’s all good and well, but Tuesday morning, I was also a new employee walking into his office on the first day of a new job. The last time I’d done that was when I started at MovieFone in 1995 (the first day of starting one’s own company doesn’t count!).

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Cracking the Code

MAY 29, 2019

At VivaTech last week, we got an insight into the first-hand experience of John Chambers who was CEO and Chairman of Cisco from 1995-2017, and who now invests in early-stage tech start-ups around the world, with a particular focus on mentoring emerging leaders. But it needs to be super tight to be effective. Tech talent is always on the move.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. And it may work.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

About 5 years ago, my business partner and I were debating on whether to spend $2,250 for a branded domain from an online domain brokerage and had fallen in love with a techy name for our marketing firm. I purchased my first home back in 1995 and it was obvious that most on our street were also first-time buyers.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Dictionary.com defines coworking as “ an arrangement by which freelancers or employees working for various companies share an office or other workspace. “ When you rent an office in a coworking space, you have access to a built-in community of contacts that can become your future friends, clients, and referral partners.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

5- Reflecting on our services, personable nature of employees and some humor. I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. Several years ago, my partner and I were busting our tails for 18 hours a day, but we weren’t really running our home services business. So ultimately, it was a bad name. 11- Quite simple.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more In the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, no companies deploy applications on premise, every employee has a mobile device and all deploy modern social software. Final thought.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. The system worked in predictable and profitable ways.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. When I met my co-founder and partner, we inspired each other to take a chance and start our own business. Thanks to Nancy D.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more In the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, no companies deploy applications on premise, every employee has a mobile device and all deploy modern social software. Final thought.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

Catan, published in 1995, became an international hit, and popularized the German game genre throughout the world, including in America. Entrepreneurship isn’t a solo endeavor; you’re “trading” with investors, with customers, with employees, with suppliers, and with partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2020

In 1995 Yellowstone National Park was in distress. Our businesses too have a balance, an ecosystem, made up of many components; customers, partners, suppliers, communities, team members, investors, and owners. The root issue is hard to pin down, but the symptoms abound. The rivers and foliage were dying.

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