Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

If you want to read more about our investment you can follow its launch today on ProductHunt , which has become my favorite place now to launch new applications and companies. The Draft team will answer questions there and so will Greg and I if you have anything for us. We believe there is a similar trend in Fantasy Sports.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

One Infosysian, as the company’s employees are called in India’s tech circles, however pointed us someplace beyond all these voices. The Infosysian had unknowingly, in the comment, revealed a subtle fact about India’s technology sector that is hurting it from the inside—there are too many managers managing things. Enter outsourcing.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

While most of us should expect to be kept busy at work, there’s a stark difference between busy and perpetually swamped. Additionally, workers often face harassment in response to taking medical leave, even when it’s covered under The 1993 Family Medical Leave Act. Unreasonably Massive Workloads.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

We were introduced in the spring of 1993 by Jim Galvin, CEO of Allcom, which had just been acquired by Len’s company Sage Alerting Systems. Jim introduced us, and that led to lunch near our office in downtown Boston. It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2020

We worked closely together for seven years before selling the company in 1993 to a public company called Sage Alerting Systems, which renamed itself Sage Technologies and then finally AmeriData Technologies. Two guys I didn’t know – Mark Dodson and Ramanujam Manikkalingam – grabbed me and said, “Come with us.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

John Jantsch: So full disclosure, you and I’ve worked together, our firms have actually worked together, so I do know a little more about your story than maybe some folks. But why don’t you start by kind of giving a little bit of background on you and your journey as an entrepreneur and maybe tell us a little about your work.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. If the car business is too removed from high tech as an example, how about the story of Overture. Fast Followers – a better idea. Golder and Gerard J.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. My grandmother was one of the first woman to earn a math degree from Columbia and never gave a damn about what women are “supposed to do.” 8% of VC partnerships, for example).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2018

You have to listen properly and only after getting to know about all aspects, should you make any viewpoint or comment about any situation. Use Various Tools to Enhance your Communication. As technology has advanced, we have access to a variety of tools that can help us communicate effectively. Well this is important.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. They all took a chance on us. I’m not talking about the short term opportunity to take advantage of market conditions. This recession lasted until 1994. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. You can’t be stopped.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2013

My wife Amy Batchelor and I wrote this one, with contributions from about 20 other entrepreneurial couples. We got married in 1993. Like my other books, there’s a lot of personal stuff in it – in this case, from both of us. Amy and I have been talking about writing this book since 2007. Related articles.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2017

We were talking about a few things around a negotiation, and he said something profound. I learned this value from Len Fassler and Jerry Poch in 1993 when they acquired my first company. My partner Dave and I were clueless about selling our company, so it would have been easy to take advantage of us.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on the show? Send us an email: Bcast@Bplans.com. The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. What about you? Now we’re talking about collateral in terms of assets that the business might own.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. And while they increasingly use technology as a platform and/or a way of reaching and managing customers, most are in non-tech businesses (construction, retail, health care, lodging, food services, etc.). A serendipitous answer came to us around noon.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 5, 2017

We spent an afternoon talking about the idea of an entrepreneurial university. Few of us anticipated the level of follow up from that discussion and the report that emerged set the stage for a lot of activity at CU Boulder over the ensuing decade. Phil called the meeting a Roundtable, even though the table was long and rectangular.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 2, 2012

It cost us $99 to do this – I remember using an organization called The Company Corporation - we called an 800 number, gave them some information, and the documents were automatically generated and filed. I lay out the terms, will negotiate a little, but am clear about what I want. It’s one page.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2014

As we grew, other people had different titles, but the two of us ran the business. I’ve been told that I was a good CEO, but after about ten people I didn’t like the role of CEO. But we stayed after it and built a successful company that was consistently profitable and acquired by a public company in 1993 for a few million dollars.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

My business name, while so obvious for a redhead, came to me in the middle of the night about six years ago. No matter what the specific tasks are, clients hire us to spread the word about them, and most of our customers want that done really quickly. We also discussed these ideas with family and clients close to us.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Buckle in – we are about to get the missing link to the Internet we were promised in the mid 1990’s. The functional use cases for NFT’s which will emerge and change everything. I’ve listed below some use cases which are quite mainstream – to stimulate the mind on where this can, and will go.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 18, 2012

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger” - Friedrich Nietzsche. And it’s unlikely that The Struggle will kill us. If we approach it the right way it will make us stronger. Here are a few examples from my first company, Feld Technologies (1987 – 1993). We were a $1.5m-ish

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Start Up Blog

JULY 7, 2014

It wasn’t so long ago that these statements were made about the internet as a commercial platform: It’s for nerds. “Fine, you nerds can do what you want but normal people are never going to use this thing.” The US top 10 public companies now have an accumulated value of $1.168 trillion dollars.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

But those were quaint ideas in the midst of an escalating cold war, for it was apparently different when the US was fighting the Soviet Union. Yes I was gifted with talents but so are EACH of us, including the millions, billions of others who were just unlucky to be born in different circumstances.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. By the end of 1994 I had a staff job, reporting to the co-chairmen of AmeriData where I travelled all over the US helping with acquisitions and generally causing trouble. At 29 years old I thought very hard about whether or not I was done.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2012

There’s no crazy party, no big events – just substance on our part and direct interactions with the investors supporting us. Our goal is simple – provide a clear update about what is going on in our funds, talk about what we are thinking about, and get direct feedback from our investors.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I just turned 51 years old, and these are the sorts of things one thinks about as every new decade emerges. In 1993 we co-founded our first startup, Pinpoint Technologies, alongside a third co-founder, Bob Durkin who focused on sales. In a startup, it’s easy to talk about everything and decide on things collaboratively.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. A truly stunning lack of innovation when you think about the underlying changes on the Internet. One day Mike heard about the Cutlass.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

One of my favorite movie lines, which I think about often, comes from the 1993 movie Rudy. In his pre-game inspirational talk in the film, Notre Dame football coach Dan Devine says, "No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around." We let competitors push us around. We let them steal our customers.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

6 common clichés about startups and entrepreneurship. If you want to open a high-end restaurant but you don’t have the right background or credibility to get outside investors, perhaps you’re going to need to be flexible about how you do it. Consider: in about 1993, Apple released the Apple Newton. The difference?

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

It 1993, I sold my first company, Feld Technologies, to a company called Sage Alerting Systems (which, after several name changes, became AmeriData Technologies.) Len asked me softball questions about myself, Feld Technologies, what we did, how we did it, how many people we had, and what our backgrounds were. I was nervous.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Web zealots have been espousing the end of Television since the first internet graphical user interface Mosiac started getting downloaded in 1993. Not because they are being forced upon us, but more because we expected them. We expect our lives, decisions and all information presented to us be augmented by screens.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The most inspiring and my favorite story is about Matt Maloney and Mike Evans as businessperson. As a businessperson, the most motivating and favourite story about Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs is the one about Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. It's not about the money; it's about the relationships you have around you.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 9, 2015

Google’s Ngram viewer (a tool that charts the usage of words in printed sources from 1800–2008) shows the precipitous rise of the words “content creation” around 1993-1994. Stories are what make us uniquely human and different from monkeys. So many marketing articles talk about having a content strategy. And Netscape launched.

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Up and Running

APRIL 23, 2013

Then, as we got more serious about it, we had to figure out if it was going to stay a hobby or if it was going to be a job. You’ve been releasing albums since 1993, working with artists from all spectrums of hip-hop. I understood that it’s not just about me. No because when we started doing music, it was just about rapping.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

About a minute later I did a double-take as it hit me what I had just read. (I’ll No one in the Army Signal Corps knew much about computers. (To It was priced at $22,000 – equivalent to about $140,000 in 2009 dollars. That’s a pretty long way from a company that admitted it knew nothing about computers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Many of us have the ability to change the trajectory of other people’s lives. I know his life touched many of us that worked with him – in ways he never knew. There is nothing more rewarding then getting the call a year later to say, “You made us think. Sometimes we don’t even realize it.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

In addition to my role as co-chairman of Interliant (Len was my co-chairman), I was also a partner at Mobius Venture Capital, sitting on over 25 boards, including five non-US companies. Since I’d first met Len in the spring of 1993, he was beloved by almost everyone around him. billion market cap) in the spring of 2000. But he did.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 20, 2004

Before that time, the standard rule of thumb was that it took about 5-6 years for a company to reach maturity, profitability, and potentially become an IPO candidate. using pre-bubble data and this is what we found. An interesting side note is that Veritas and Peoplesoft both went public in 1993 and were both acquired last week.

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