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.) I’m participating in a reunion in October in Boston – I’m very much looking forward to it. I’ve known Verne since 1990.

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Boston Colorado Advertising Revenue 130

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Scott Kirsner had a fun article in Boston.com today titled The Red Line Tour of Innovation in Boston. One fall, after Feld Technologies had moved to Boston, we hired a recent graduate from Brown named Jonathan Lutes. Tags: Entrepreneurship adp boston cambridge. While interviewing him I asked what he had done over the summer.

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Massachusetts Boston Startup Cloud 118

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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Alaska Boston Entrepreneur Startup 104

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. My first IPO wasn’t until 1995—the VC business takes patience. So I started Foundation Capital in 1995. I had had a love affair with computers since I was 18 and a freshman physics major. Find Your Obession. That might be neat.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). TechStars Impact on Boston. 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). Led By Entrepreneurs.

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Community Silicon Valley Incubator Colorado 142

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

So we packed up, moved from Boston to Boulder, and decided to build a life in Colorado, while I continued to invest. This was 1995 and the path from there has been powerful and dramatic.

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Alaska Widget Colorado Angel Investor 166

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.)

Alaska 70

Alaska Boston Entrepreneur Startup 70

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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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The ’90s saw broader adoption by the middle class but even in 1995 only 28% of US households had a computer (US Census / Pegasus Research). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. In the ’80s a home computer was the preserve of wealthy and upper middle class families. Author howerl.

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 133

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

For instance, my IP address would show that I’m from a high-tech company in Boston, so they could offer me relevant case studies from other respected high-tech firms in Boston. Like any new(ish) UX theory, personalization has its limitations, its threats and its drawbacks.

Web 48

Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

In 1995, he co-founded the digital services firm, Razorfish and grew it from a two-man startup to more than $250 million and 2,200 employees. We were creative designers and front-end developers in a highly creative environment, and we merged with a Boston-based back-end technology company who was working in Fortran, and old school. (In

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur IPO 120

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

I started working in 1995 at the age of 15 in the mailroom at Waterhouse Securities (which became TD Waterhouse) at 100 Wall Street. At 30, I had built one of the best professional networks in New York City--a market that was on the verge of passing Boston as the second largest startup ecosystem in the country.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

My first time jumping into the start-up world was as a freshly minted Harvard MBA in 1995. Below is a sample chart that I put together answering the question for someone interested in either e-commerce, mobile or SaaS companies in SF/SV, NYC or Boston.

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Boston B2C Salary Cofounder 52

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It really started in Boston. Santiago used to be a designer at IDEO and was nervous about a big meeting he had in Boston. We’re a young community with high hopes. We are fed by teenage angst to understand the role of tech and non-tech in our world. I sent a good luck card to his hotel before his presentation.

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Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Mokady believes that partnering with a Boston-based VC would have helped CyberArk address its talent problems more effectively because the VC would have vouched for the company. From 1995–2010, the Israeli startup ecosystem was not focused on creating big companies. Those that have are gold.

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Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  It is scary to reflect on how few of the 7,000 professionals active in the industry today were general partners before Netscape’s IPO in 1995. (3) 4)      Boston. 4)      Boston. 3)      Life sciences.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

If you were funded by VCs in Silicon Valley, Boston, or Bombay, it still paid to have your CEO and sales team have eyes and ears in NYC for two main reasons. It used to be that anyone in the entrepreneurial world had to be keenly cognizant of what was going on in New York City. First, that's where the customers were.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

But there was one guy who was working on virology named Ray Dolan who had just come back to the NIH, from his fellowship in Boston and was heading up a virology lab. After finishing three years at the NIH, I went to Boston and worked at the Masters General Hospital as a fellow. Not enough people with disease in Boston to study.

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