Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2015

This plunge in productivity has critical impacts on a business’s efficiency and revenues. What’s more, even when employees are at work, data automation software frees up employees’ time to provide enhanced, customer focus and increase revenues. Here are three tips to keep your business at top performance despite summer setbacks: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2015

As the end of the fiscal year approaches, it is critical for businesses to determine what initiatives where successful, as well as what were financial weights in order to create strategic operational goals that will result in increased revenues and reduced costs in the next year. Here are five things to look at: 1. Review What Worked.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

With the end of the 2015 fiscal year nearing, businesses may be reviewing their consolidated revenues and thinking of ways they can increase their profit margin as they enter the new fiscal year or second-half of the calendar year. A large portion of a company’s revenues can be wasted on unneeded expenses.

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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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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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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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities. 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.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Second, and full disclosure, I’ve invested in a few of these funds ; and third my teaching partner Ann Miura-Ko is a partner in one of these funds. One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. But in reality they only became mainstream ~5-7 years ago.

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. I hit over six figures in my first year in business – and the company revenue has increased annually ever since. Thanks to Nancy D. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC !

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

because you found more gold, or reached a revenue target. 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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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

That cap will now specifically apply to a broader group of small companies: those with annual gross revenues of $1 billion or less (adjusted for inflation), within a five-year interval from the sale of its first security. Over 85% of CEOs said that going public was not as attractive of an option as it was in 1995.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. economy and for maintaining competitiveness, 86% of CEOs surveyed said that going public was a less attractive option for businesses today than in 1995.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. Think Bigger.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

That being said, let’s focus on the numbers that really matter, revenue and profits. Google still did deliver $372mm in earnings on $1.92b of revenue up from $204mm in earnings the year before. " Well, we did that starting in 1995 when Netscape went public and are doing it again today.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

That being said, let’s focus on the numbers that really matter, revenue and profits. Google still did deliver $372mm in earnings on $1.92b of revenue up from $204mm in earnings the year before. " Well, we did that starting in 1995 when Netscape went public and are doing it again today.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 1, 2016

Mr. Coyle has also cut management costs and increased revenues, resulting in a substantial improvement in the financial position of the Chamber. In 1995, Mr. Coyle was tapped by Governor Whitman to manage the day-to-day operations of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. Corporate Partners.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. This destroyed AOLs original platform, as it could no longer share variable usage revenues with its content partners. The revenue stream for these guys ended. All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997.

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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.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. The second is a lack of operational scalability.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0 Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 25, 2015

RIM went from less than $5 million in revenue in FY1995 (February 1995) to $20 billion in FY2011, then back down to $3.3 It needs a business partner! A partner is not an adversary. Every meeting, every negotiation, especially, with strategic partners (telecom network providers like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc.)

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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. Sometimes buyers are able secure continued tax revenue, applied either as a property millage or sales tax. Capital Solutions.

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