Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

As the 50+ employees of Techstars stood on the stage at the end, I got chills. Brown was one of the four co-founders of Techstars (with Cohen, me, and Jared Polis). A little over a year ago, he joined Techstars full time as one of the three managing partners – the other two being David Cohen and Mark Solon.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering. Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot ( ff VC and angel-backed startup with 2.5m

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

Today is a special day in my entrepreneurial journey and in the life of the company that I started back in 1999 (last century!), I’m not sure how many Internet companies started in 1999 are still private, backed and led by the same team the whole time, and generally in the same business they started in. Press release is here.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

Today is a special day in my entrepreneurial journey and in the life of the company that I started back in 1999 (last century!), I’m not sure how many Internet companies started in 1999 are still private, backed and led by the same team the whole time, and generally in the same business they started in. Press release is here.

Syndicate 48

Syndicate Syndication Affiliate Cofounder 48

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions. Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

From Microsoft she went on to Netscape, where she was responsible for marketing of the Netscape Browser, and then LoudCloud, and now I’m happy to say she’s been my partner at SVPG for over a decade, and she also teaches marketing at UC Berkeley. The title is not important; the work they do is. The combination is amazing.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

My partner Ross Kimbarovsky and I wanted to help people from around the world access creative talent and help creative from around the world find new talent. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I re-ignited Anvil as consultancy, but I wasn’t quite ready to hire employees yet.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. The best way to “go local in each new global region” is to partner with an expert, better known as a “market native.”

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Global United States Intellectual Property Malaysia 60

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

The founder of Joyo.com (which eventually became Amazon China ), now CEO of China e-commerce site DHGate , says she’s flooded with correspondence from people telling her how her business helped them break barriers and realize their dreams. You can quit a job if you change your mind or feel dissatisfied as an employee. Diane Wang.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. True story.) Burger?

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Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. And increasingly they might not buy their laptops, because their employees will just bring their own devices.

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