Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The name kind of says it all. In 1999 things were moving so theoretically quickly that everything was a total blur. The post Are Things Moving Faster Than In 1999? After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. Agree or disagree?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I started my business when my first book (on telecommuting) was published in 1999 (in the dark ages of virtual work!). Photo Credit: Debra A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.” Before that, Baughman was with Marvell and Intel, joining the latter after nine years at Dialogic Corporation, which was acquired by Intel in mid 1999. Naval Nuclear Power Program.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2018

In 1999, search results were fairly objective. So will pages published on a domain name the user visits frequently. The point is to spend your advertising dollars reaching people in your community. Keyword ranking has lost its meaning; it’s time to walk away. What does it mean to “rank” for a particular keyword?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

There’s a famous scene in the cult-classic 1999 movie “ Office Space “ where the main character, Peter, is confronted by his boss, Bill. Where possible, be specific with names. As the name suggests, the personas should feel personal. Give each a name and a stock photo. Make them part of your team.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Only one of which, was on the list in 1999 – that being Microsoft. The digital era has provided inordinate consumer value through data mobility, entertainment on demand, social connection, digital connectivity, smart devices and ecommerce to name a few. But, they have become an invasive species. The list is very long indeed.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 2- A name to push back against antiquated industry practices. 3- Used my name as part of it. Thanks to Nicole T. Photo Credit: Tony Palazzo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We learned this weekend that it was named after his East Hampton home. It was Steve Blank – creator of the “customer development” process, founder of E.piphany (a high profile CRM company in the late 90’s that IPO’d in 1999), instructor at both Stanford and Berkeley and author of a well read blog.

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Austin Startup

MAY 23, 2019

When I came to Austin in 1999, ATI was one of the only organizations supporting entrepreneurs in Texas. It meant a lot to me that Laura Kilcrease was there in person to present the award which is named after her as the founding Executive Director of ATI. she’s always lifting others up and tonight was no exception.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. It’s strange to me to think that customers with years of experience would ever listen to twenty-something smarties from great MBA’s who have never worked in your industry before – but that’s a different story. Numbers are important.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). No matter the name?—?the We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Back in 1999, Amazon patented a feature and changed their own process and on-line commerce forever: One-click purchasing, versus re-entering name, address, and credit card information for every transaction. Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%). Mutual Funds.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”. Steve ]” I launched my first business in 1999, it was a web-based business and the tools available at that time cost us a few hundred thousand dollars just to get started.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. When you order an Amazon Kindle it comes pre-configured with your user name already configured into the device so that you can click a single button and buy shit. There are 20x more consumers online. And buy people are doing en masse.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. I told them that True Ventures had stuck to their brand name and submitted a totally clean term sheet. It was accept the terms or go into bankruptcy so we took the money. No gotchas.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

I’ll get your name included in a contest to give away an IdeaKeg Single. ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping. To enter, please meet Gregg Fraley at FEI 2013 or email your name, role, company name, email address and work telephone to ignite@kilnco.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). We were all at each other’s weddings, brit milah / baby namings and unfortunately a funeral. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. We were family.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

MONOCLE MAGAZINE NAMES HAIFA INVESTMENT HOTSPOT. GE, which entered the water industry in 1999 and is involved in a wide variety of water technologies, in the last five years doubled its investment in water technology related R&D to reach $1.5 From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3

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Pascal's View

JULY 1, 2014

Can you name five benign dictators who have ruled successfully for any meaningful period of time (non-fiction)? Can you name five successful, long serving CEO’s (excluding Warren Buffett ) whose governance histories are free of the “high-beta” associated with outliers such as Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs ? It’s not easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! .&# It is the new calling card. It is slowly becoming Florida Condos.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): If you can remember a good Italian name like Carmine Gallo.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

It’s overpriced, unreliable — you can lose your coverage if you’re sick and unable to work — and limits you to a certain group of medical providers and facilities, just to name a few. suppliers of personalized employee health benefits, Extend Health (1999) and Zane Benefits (2006). Rick Lindquist is president of Zane Benefits, Inc.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. In its decade-long trek to making Wi-Fi ® a household name, the Wi-Fi Alliance has certified more than 9,000 products for Wi-Fi usage and cross-brand interoperability.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. He has extensive experience working in Kenya’s tech industry, having founded Wananchi Online in 1999.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I saw it myself in 1999-2002 when it was hard to charge for my product because all of my competitors raised large rounds of capital and were giving away their products free fueled by large VC rounds. .&# That’s what many VCs are hearing in 2010. We also took one of our large portfolio companies, Ulta, public.

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Twitter provides publishers with several key advantages over RSS, namely the ability to control brand and force traffic back to their monetized site. A month before Steve published his post I wrote a post that remains one of the most popular pieces I have written to date.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. Was this a function of “too much money chasing too few deals” as many pundits claimed?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Subject line like it’s 1999! Everyone loves the sound of their own name. You know, using someone’s name in an automated email just couldn’t possibly have any positive effect. You know, using someone’s name in an automated email just couldn’t possibly have any positive effect. NO, really!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

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