Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

I originally invested in Harmonix as an angel investor in 1995. And, in case you missed it, Spark Capital joined us an investor last week with a few other long time friends in a $15 million round. It’s rise was well chronicled in this awesome Inc. Magazine long form story titled Just Play.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 22, 2015

To give you some background, I moved to Santa Fe, NM from the East Coast in 1995 to start a company with my older brother. This has allowed me to spend time in Boulder with some exciting startups and some interesting and successful business leaders.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2012

Since I moved to Boulder in 1995, I’ve watched and participated in the evolution of an amazing startup community which I believe currently has the highest entrepreneurial density in the United States.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2020

In 1995, at the dawn of the age of the commercial Internet, this involved landlines, answering machines, pagers, and fax machines. My investments have always been geographically distributed across the US and I spent the majority of my time between Monday and Friday on the road.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

As a relative youngster (I’ve only been here since 1995) it was especially humbling to be asked to part of the “ Boulder Conversations with Extraordinary People” Speaker Series. It’s always an honor to be asked to participate in something to do with the history of the town one lives in.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995. We moved to Boulder in November 1995 and never looked back – it’s been amazing. Nope – Amy and I aren’t moving to Homer. While we have a home in Homer, where we will be for the next three weeks, we still call Boulder, Colorado our home.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

I’ve only lived in a few other places – Blytheville, Arkansas from 1965 – 1966, Boston in 1967 and again from 1983 – 1995, and Boulder since 1995. I grew up in Dallas – I lived there from 1968 to 1983 when I moved to Boston to go to college. So Dallas looms large over my own personal development.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

The last was dinner with Alex Rigopulos, the co-founder of Harmonix, which he co-founded with Eran Egozy in 1995, sold in 2007, bought back in 2010, and is still running today. ” The years 1995 through 2005, shown almost entirely in red ink, were “The Part Before That. I’ll be 60 in 2025.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2018

Dave Jilk turned me on to it when I was a freshman (he was a senior) and from 1983 to 1995 I read almost every issue cover to cover. Up to this point, the phrase “consumer protection” hasn’t really been in my head around ICOs, but it is today. When I was in college and my early 20s, I read Forbes Magazine religiously.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 3, 2010

The prior art was extremely thin, only went back to 1995, and didn’t mention that entire computer languages have been created around the list as a core data structure. After giggling at the absurdity of the idea, I went and at a patent dated 4/11/06 that appears to be for the doubly-linked list.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2012

A little known fact about us is that he was the only person I knew in Boulder when Amy and I moved here in 1995 (he moved to the east coast within the next year.) If you want a sample, download a free chapter (GE’s key decision) and read Verne’s six page Introduction. . I’ve known Verne since 1990.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

I’ve known Scott since shortly after I moved to Boulder in 1995. The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. He was an early employee at Email Publishing (which became MessageMedia), my very first Boulder-based angel investment.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2014

It’s also not the Boulder of 1995. But ultimately this isn’t really about economics. Or innovation. Or ethnicity. It’s about change. And evolution. The Boulder of 2015 is not the Boulder of 1970. It’s the Boulder of 2015. And we need to keep being inclusive and working together to keep it great, and make it better.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 21, 2014

We moved from Boston to Boulder in 1995 and never looked back. We’ve had our ups and downs, including nearly getting divorced (which I recount at the beginning of our book Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur (I know you see what I did there, Brad-the-book-salesman.)

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

I still remember meeting her for the first time around 1995 and thinking how dynamite she was. Joanne is awesome – if you don’t read her blog, you should start right now, especially if you are interested in NY entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurs, food, and the thoughts of an amazing woman.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

1995 – 2000 was the climb up to the Peak. In addition to looking forward to the future, Steve uses his lessons from the past to explore how things play out. It spans the time frame from 1985 – 2015 which you can just lay down on the Gartner Hype Cycle. 1985 – 1994 was the initial entrepreneurial Grind.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I’ve known and worked with Andy since 1995 (I was on the board of his first company – Abuzz – which was acquired in 1999 by the New York Times) and am awed by the amazing things he’s doing in Seattle these days, including Founder’s Co-op , RevenueLoan , and of course TechStars Seattle.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

This was 1995 and the path from there has been powerful and dramatic. .” But at almost 30, I just didn’t feel done, and in many ways I felt that I was just at the beginning of a new journey (which turned out to be true.)

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 8, 2010

I remember trying CU-SeeMe in 1995 to try to deal with (unsuccessfully) my east coast / west coast travel. The theme for this month is videoconferencing. This is one of those technologies that has been a “it will happen next year&# thing for a long time (15 years)? Until recently, it didn’t feel like it was quite there.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2011

Sure – it’s had it’s ups and downs, but when I lived here from 1983 to 1995 the entrepreneurial vector was awesome. .&# While I think the bay area is a special place, anyone that knows me knows that I strongly believe there are several great entrepreneurial communities throughout the US and the potential for many more.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2015

In 1995 I made a seed investment in a tiny company called Harmonix founded by two guys, Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. After one meeting with them I knew I wanted to be part of their journey and made one of my early $25,000 angel investments. The journey they went on as founders and a company was amazing.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2014

When Amy and I moved to Boulder in 1995, one of the fun quiet things I didn’t share was how cool it was to be living in Mork’s home town. He started acting (well – maybe he was always acting) and went on to make two of my favorite movies of all times – Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 21, 2014

We moved from Boston to Boulder in 1995 and never looked back. We’ve had our ups and downs, including nearly getting divorced (which I recount at the beginning of our book Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur (I know you see what I did there, Brad-the-book-salesman.)

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2010

When I moved here in 1995 I didn’t expect to engage in much business as I was spending most of my time in Boston, NY, and San Francisco. A bunch of folks from all over Boulder are working on the Boulder Fiber project to help us become one of the cities for the Google Fiber for Communities project. Boulder is a perfect city for this.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2015

This book was written in 1995 and published by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association so the updated subtitle should be “A One Hundred Year Renaissance – 20 Years Later.” So this weekend was about startup communities with a bonus book on the startup visa tossed in for good measure.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

I met Jerry in 1995. I was going to try to create some kind of complicated matching donation scheme since I hadn’t made a gift to Naropa yet this year but I decided to just gift them $10,000 (which I just did now through the website) so I encourage you to support at any level if you want to participate in my not-so-complicated match.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Several of the stops were regularly hang outs of mine between 1983 and 1995 most notably #10 (Miracle of Science) and #11 (Toscanini’s) but also including #5 (MIT Media Lab), #6 (Muddy Charles Pub), #7 (MIT Lobby 7), and #8 (Central Square and the Necco Factory – back when they made Necco wafers.).

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2011

When I graduated from MIT Sloan with an SM (they didn’t have MBA’s back in 1988) I was already following three of these – I hadn’t focused on where I wanted to live until 1995 when Amy and I moved to Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2018

One of my first investments, when I moved to Boulder in 1995, was in a company called Email Publishing, which was the very first email service provider. One of our themes is Protocol. We’ve been investing in companies built around technology protocols since 1994. SMTP has been very good to me.

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