Feld Thoughts

MARCH 27, 2018

The first accelerator, YC, was founded in 2005. The second, Techstars, was founded in 2006. Wikipedia has a good summary of the history of accelerators. Now that we are 13 years into the accelerator journey, an accelerator is a well-established construct that is part of the global startup ecosystem.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

Amazon raised the stakes back in 2005 when they offered two-day free shipping on eligible purchases. It’s digital transformation that helps you make sure that your prices, stock levels, product descriptions, special offers, and more are consistent across every channel. Instant gratification is a given.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2020

surging by 173 percent since 2005 before the pandemic struck. Major employers , including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Amazon, all revealed that they would be embracing a work-from-home structure for those employees who are able to complete their jobs remotely. Benefits of the remote trend. Remote work is nothing new.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

With this in mind, we started Intuit’s Unstructured Time program in 2005, where employees could spend 10% working on their own projects. What if the company was supportive of skunkworks projects, ensuring that small passionate teams of employees didn’t have to expend so much energy fighting against organizational pushback?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

” – Marc Andreessen In the book “ Super Founders “, author Ali Tamaseb, studied 200 Unicorns, aka startups valued at over $1 billion, started between 2005 to 2018.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 16, 2021

When Jason and I wrote the first edition Venture Deals in 2011, we built off a series of 30+ blog posts we wrote in 2005 about Term Sheets. While the web is a much noisier place in 2021 than it was in 2005, the opacity and information asymmetry around SPACs are remarkably similar to what existed 16 years ago around venture deals.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

Since 2005, Google has led a wonderful open source program called Summer of Code. Google has run this program every year since 2005, and the results are stunning. The goal of that program is to promote open source software development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has nearly 3 billion users worldwide.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. Thanks to Jen Wan, Soteri Skin ! #5- Photo Credit: Raven Cobb.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Chris DiBona, the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google, was recently interviewed by Slashdot. He had a few interesting things to say about his job and his tasks at the search giant, but we found his comments about Google Summer of Code (GSoC) to be particularly noteworthy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation way back in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” He has said many times that if your vision for your company is to grow it just to flip it to a large company or to take it public and cash out, "you're doomed.” Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The nonprofit consists of a network of charter schools the senior advisor founded in 2005. A former senior advisor to a former United States president allegedly embezzled over $200,000 from a charter school network. The man is being charged with wire fraud, money laundering, and making a false statement to a bank.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2011

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JUNE 14, 2011

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JUNE 16, 2011

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. I wish this article was out when I wrote that letter to Bootstrap Austin in 2005 as it kind of frames the tradeoff perfectly.

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JUNE 21, 2011

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JUNE 16, 2011

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MAY 10, 2011

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Generation X (Generation Me) – 64.9 First, a quick summary of the major U.S. demographic generations out there today, ranked from large to small: Generation Y (Millennials) – 82.9 million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Baby Boomers (no other name) – 70.7

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 14, 2014

Facebook’s Head of Product Chris Cox is, gasp, in his 30s and joined Facebook in 2005. We should all try to approach every day as if we were a new employee , but that’s hard through long successful tenures. Even Zuck turns 30 this year and grew up with a different set of assumptions around connectivity and technology.

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MAY 4, 2011

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JUNE 7, 2011

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The Theory of Kirzner (1973-2005) about entrepreneurship explains how the improvement of economic health affects individuals in the first world. Entrepreneurship is the primary factor in the growth of economies. Each new business launched has an impact on an economy and affect people around it.

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2014 Mashable, Inc. is the largest independent online news site dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved.

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deal architect

APRIL 18, 2013

In 2005, Gartner defined it as "the growing practice of introducing new technologies into consumer markets prior to industrial markets". Consumerization is not a new concept. Unfortunately, in the years since, the definition has gotten narrower - to where many. Industry Commentary'

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JUNE 9, 2011

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Top Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Search Chat Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr Last.fm

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc. is the largest independent online news site dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved. startupcto'

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Obviously over the years since this was a tool that was acquired by Google in 2005 already, the use case kind of evolved because people come to your website not only via your browser but maybe also via mobile devices and maybe have different experiences than what a website actually meant in 2005.

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JUNE 10, 2011

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MAY 16, 2011

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2021

I’ve been blogging regularly since 2005 (typical 15 – 20 posts a month.) This blog has decided to take a summer vacation. I’m going to take a break for a while. Now that The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors is out, I’ve started working on my next book.

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MAY 18, 2011

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deal architect

OCTOBER 17, 2012

available since 2005 is. Reading Dennis Howlett’s update on HANA, you get the sense it is the first time SAP has had rollout issues I can point to several more lethargic product rollouts in the last few years ECC 6.0

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deal architect

JUNE 2, 2016

The first post on that blog was on March 7, 2005. I just checked the New Florence index and we are at 4,960 posts. We should cross 5,000 by middle of July at the current pace. Back then, I was.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Today HuffPo is one of the most well-read and well respected online media outlets but when she started it in 2005 she had lots critics who dismissed her unpaid bloggers and editorial content. Everyone always talks about Steve Jobs and Apple but my vote goes to Arianna Huffington at The Huffington Post.

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