Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

.” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. And it’s been very interesting since that point back in 1996.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

investigates how technology will better the current procedure for medical payments in the coming years. . The coronavirus pandemic opened a new door and provided a fresh perspective on technology necessities. So how will such technology enhance the healthcare payment system? Healthcare and the Digital Age. HITRUST and Banking .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). We also run annual CEO summits and topical discussions groups in marketing, technology, recruiting and the like. Let’s start with the fund. This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

This generation is much more technology-focused than previous ones, so increase your online presence. The most recently named generation, Gen Z, are those born from 1996 to 2015. Also, if you thought that technology was important for millennials, wait until you engage with Generation Z. Millennials.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs. Baby Boomers are joining the fun in record numbers. percent to 23.4 percent last year.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2012

ISWec 2012 2012 was created in recognition of the lack of strategic platforms for buyers and sellers to network in the region, as well as to allow local technologies in Malaysia to have an avenue to showcase their products. Solutions are increasingly gaining in complexity with the rapid changes in technology.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2018

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has taken measures to increase adoption of EHR (Electronic Health Records) and eliminate the use of paper records. The adoption rates of EHR are soaring, 87% of office-based physicians have adopted this technology already. The blue button is one of such assets.

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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.) But 21st century companies face compressed technology cycles, which create the need for continuous innovation over a longer period of time. Who leads that process best?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Brad on blogging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981). But even the older Boomers have learned to use technology and social media as the source of expectations from your business, more so than your own traditional marketing. Use new technology to personalize and expedite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. The number of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business has grown from 14 percent in 1996 to over 30 percent last year. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs. million businesses in 2014. Baby Boomers are joining the fun in record numbers.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Smaller equals faster in processor technology.). But manufacturing technology has proceeded to get smaller and smaller. Limits are overcome, worked around, or solved by switching technology.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2011

During the Forum, Cloud Computing was highlighted as the number one technology priority for companies in 2012. Yi Ning Lim is a marketing specialist at GMO GlobalSign , one of the first Certification Authorities, providing Digital Certificate and credentialing services since 1996. The Sleeping Dragon Awakes in China.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

For nonprofits, technology offers many avenues for storytelling, which effectively further nonprofit missions. Technology enables interconnectivity that allows ratings agencies and apps to draw data from multiple sources, consolidate it, and condense it before presenting it to stakeholders. That’s right!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the recent years, with numerous companies providing the technology to enable organizations to access applications over a network to remote computing sites. Mobile cloud technologies help to enable more sophisticated mobile apps, offering them to a broader spectrum of mobile subscribers.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? We think the most important principle is that the CTO is the go-to point for all technology in the business.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2023

Fast forward just a few years to 1996. But that was back to 1996. Technology advances cannot be stopped. In this case, the competition was not from a company but from a new technology. Bell was lucky, but the pace of technology was so much slower then. Market research matters?

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I’ve been interested in private company data since I started Feld Technologies in 1987. Howard Diamond, a close friend and entrepreneur I’ve worked with since 1996 (now the CEO of MobileDay ), regularly criticized me as been too trusting, too willing to see the good in people, and too patient with people.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

Here’s why but it’s really boring: The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act called for the creation of an automated system to record arrivals and departures of non-U.S. Two years ago, airports in the United States started piloting face recognition technology at departure gates as part of the Exit Visa program.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. and Half.com.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

From 1996 to 2000 Don learned the art of Penetration Testing while consulting for both Ernst & Young and Deloitte and later took a position with one of the first Managed Security Services Providers, Counterpane Internet Security. Don is helping evolve research operations and research technology in line with the growth of Malware.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Bluehost has been a pioneer in the world of hosting since its establishment in 1996. Being one of the earliest web hosting service providers , it has amassed a vast amount of experience and knowledge to emerge as a leading brand for WordPress hosting.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2012

I have no idea what he’s done between 2000 and 2012 – he didn’t go into it, but he used his 1996 – 2000 experience to explain why his new business was going to be great. Big companies love The Formula. They keep doing the same things over and over again until they don’t work anymore.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Even after the team introduced Mosaic, the world’s first browser, almost nobody thought the Internet would be significant beyond the scientific community­—least of all the most important technology industry leaders who were busy building proprietary alternatives. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

But as LA as a tech community grew massively the percentage of our LA deals went from 15% to 50% from 1996 to 2010 and it has remained solid since then.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

Len and I co-founded Interliant (originally Sage Networks) with Steve Maggs and Rajat Bhargava in 1996. His last company – the one he built with Jerry Poch that had acquired my first company – was bought in 1996 by GE Capital for $500 million. billion market cap) in the spring of 2000.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 12, 2021

I had launched my first business, a VAR, in 1996. We did basically the same thing MSPs do today, just with the technology of time. was hot and Token Ring was taking its final gasp as a new “cutting edge technology” called Ethernet took root. Netware 3.12 The demand for networks was exploding. Opportunity abound. I get the gag.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

13:28] Technology is really running our lives now, how do you sort of insert play into that conversation? [15:59] That wasn't my intention in 1996. So there's positives and negatives to sort of the technology I think. 15:59] Give us some examples of how you’ve incorporated play in platforms like Meetings or Teams. [18:39]

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders in over 35 countries. They share stories with world-class marketers who use technology to generate growth and achieve business and career success. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Tom Stanfill.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2019

While many people erroneously think that millennial entrepreneurs mean any young person, millennials are those born between 1981 and 1996. Millennials grew up in a world of technology, so they have a very different approach to entrepreneurship than those that came before them. Millennials Have Technology in Their Veins.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

Fast forward just a few years to 1996. Back to 1996. In this case, the competition was not from a company but a new technology. Bell was lucky, but the pace of technology was so much slower then. Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Feld Technologies worked with Allcom whenever we needed a network installed for a client. Soon after, Len called me and asked if I’d be interested in selling Feld Technologies to Sage Alerting. From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered. And I will miss him every day.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2016

According to a 1996 HBR article , interactive marketing included “the ability to address an individual and the ability to gather and remember the response of that individual.”. There’s an amazing quote from that HBR article I cited earlier , and this comes way back from 1996: Frederick E. Marketers do that with all kinds of tactics.

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