Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our As a VC, I do not differentiate between a seed investment and any other investment that I make.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So back in 1996 I wanted to start my own business and I asked my mom, “Hey, what businesses could I do from home?” That’s what differentiates us from just advertising. How did you kind of get to this place where you are the president of the company and doing other entrepreneurial things? What do you think?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. There a strategic differentiator is the ability to find VC followers. You can’t mistake that for being the one who wins the poker tournament or even comes home with more money than you brought to the game. In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

In the 20 th century, the best companies IPO’d in 6-8 years from startup (and in the Dot-Com bubble of 1996-1999 that could be as short as 2-3 years.) While unique technology or market insight is one component of a successful startup everyone agrees that attracting and retaining A+ talent differentiates the winners from the losers.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Step 3: Brand and differentiate yourself. However, we have been able to differentiate [ourselves] and also excel by making enterprise software fun and enjoyable.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2018

When starting Career Central in 1996, my team & I identified three qualities that we wanted our employees to possess: tirelessness, selflessness, and fearlessness. Talent is today’s great differentiator. A far more important hiring criterion is what I call “DNA.”. We ensured that every single hire shared this hardwiring.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 12, 2021

I had launched my first business, a VAR, in 1996. Don’t be the leader, be the differentiator. I felt invisible. Back then the popular three letter acronym for a managed service provider, was Value Added Reseller. We did basically the same thing MSPs do today, just with the technology of time. Netware 3.12

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 28, 2012

When I started my first company in 1996, it was still very much a guys only world. These have all become competitive differentiators for me. Business Tips For Women Business Leaders. The business environment has changed dramatically over the last 15 years. But the pendulum is shifting and I don’t see any signs of it stopping.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Whilst technically there are some interesting differentiators between Django and Rails, there are only a few key differences worth considering. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. web applications. Django is much newer and has a more immature codebase. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

For example, in 1996 a relatively large supermarket chain “Dominick’s Finer Foods” discovered through experimentation that framing discounts in a bundle (“2 for $1”) instead of as single unit discounts (“1 for 50 cents”) significantly increased the number of units purchased.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

It was clear as day, even back then, that in our ever-faster, post-Twitter world, the only way to differentiate ourselves would be to focus on our core strengths — analysis and context, but with blog sensibilities. Met you in 1996 Mr Malik and always knew that you were going to make it and make it big one day. They may [.].

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2016

This study analyzed user reactions to 78 watch websites and 81 car websites, and it looked purely at design elements as differentiators. In 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. Things like: Mean RGB (Red, Green, Blue). Mean HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness). Number of colors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

For those too young to remember perhaps the best known of this era came in 1996 and was known as Dancing Baby , a strange, animated gif of — you guessed it. Back then there were “email forwards.” Jonah was working on his masters thesis and he asked Nike to produce a customized shoe with the word “Sweatshop” on it.

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