Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I still remember the first time I met Len, sitting in a restaurant in downtown Boston, wondering to myself “who is this guy and what does he want?” Charlie started his own company, The Feld Group, in 1992 , when my company (Feld Technologies) was five years old.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe. But when I read thoughtful pieces on the future of technology I start to imagine where our lives will be in 10 years. Seemed such a fantasy back in 1992.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 28, 2012

This program started out as Birthing of Giants 20 years ago and had a profound impact on me when I was 25 years old and running Feld Technologies. It also resulted in me getting involved in Young Entrepreneurs Organization , starting the Boston and Colorado chapters, and serving on the YEO board for several years.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 6, 2011

Looking back 19 years ago (1992), I realize that I had my first cell phone, dial up access to bulletin boards, a love affair with email, and was doing consulting for AT&T on Apple’s first mobile computing device, the Newton. My sons seem to think magnetic technology is the state of the art. For context, my sons are 8 and 11.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

In Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, and other innovation centers across the country, entrepreneurs and their backers (who are not limited to venture capitalists) are all keenly aware that Washington’s addiction to enacting hasty, one-size-fits–all financial regulation will continue to have far-reaching unintended negative consequences for the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. I liked meeting people, hearing the company plans, learning about their technology, figuring out if it was for real—all that was fun. I had had a love affair with computers since I was 18 and a freshman physics major. Find Your Obession.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 18, 2012

I recalled a conversation I’d had with my father many years ago regarding Tommy Heinsohn , the Boston Celtics basketball coach at the time. In technology companies, when the employees disappear, the spiral begins: the company declines in value, the best employees leave, the company declines in value, the best employees leave.

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