Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Bobby Schnabel has returned to CU Boulder as the College of Engineering and Applied Science faculty director for entrepreneurial leadership , external chair of computer science, and campus thought-leader on computing. While you may not know Bobby, this is a huge add for CU Boulder and the Boulder Startup Community.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Palo Alto Software’s founder, Tim Berry, discusses these clichés in his latest video on Vimeo: Startups and Entrepreneurship: Beyond the Clichés. 6 common clichés about startups and entrepreneurship. All of this changed in about 1997 when U.S. Startups and Entrepreneurship: Beyond the Clichés from Tim Berry on Vimeo.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more. This was pre Internet.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2011

John Bradberry, the author of “ 6 Secrets to Startup Success “, spent over twenty years as a business advisor and strategist, and has improved the performance of more than a thousand leaders and hundreds of teams. One of the underrated pillars of startup success is the concept of “founder readiness.&#

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

It makes sense that such intense competitive pressure drives startup founders to pitch their company to prospective hires in ever more grandiose terms, exaggerate how well their company is “crushing it,” and make their culture sound like the happiest place on earth. Amazon became known as a company whose engineers were intense and elite.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. The evidence: (i) Startups are responsible for virtually all the new jobs created in the United States since 1977 (Source: Kauffman Foundation). GDP growth, the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. And Zignal Labs. Jim co-taught classes with me at U.C.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. The launch, by the way, was a failure.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Our growth engine has run out of a key fuel– basic research.” Now, the mistake: “Venture capitalists are sitting on plenty of cash and are good at bringing startups to the market. The quarter, which saw double digit declines in every major industry sector, marks the lowest venture investment level since 1997.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Since the recession, and at least partially sparked by it, I’m seeing a real resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Kalghatgi is a recovering engineer with several years of experience in front-end design and development focused on mobile and web UX before completing his MBA at Harvard Business School. Michael Yavonditte is CEO of Hashable, a New York startup backed by ff Venture Capital and a number of other leading VCs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Javier : … the entrepreneurial engine of the United States is bar none the most efficient wealth creation and job creation tool that has ever existed. … .

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. To start with, the chance of failure is high—as it is for any startup.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

You might have heard of prominent unicorn companies, the billion-dollar ventures that are always trending and making a huge impact in the world of startups. The founder Robert Hull advice startup founders not to pay close attention to the rejections but focus on their business. Today, Hotmail would have been a unicorn company.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. Startups formed to serve them need to wait until they come online so that the customer acquisition can be faster.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. Startups formed to serve them need to wait until they come online so that the customer acquisition can be faster.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The rapacious credit derivative and mortgage market financial engineers should have succeeded in proving the dangers of ‘one-size-fits-all’ thinking– to the world’s great detriment. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997. And then there are those who look at the broken U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

Legendary tech entrepreneurs, startup celebrities, and even the creators of Twitter itself are on the service. brrhodes : IceRocket search engine founder and CEO Blake Rhodes tweets about his insights into social media and the online world. brevsin : CEO of CampusLive.com Boris Revsin discusses the startup life and his love for Boston.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

John Meriwether from Liar’s Poker fame assembled a stellar group from Wall Street and academia including Myron Scholes (one of the creators of the Black-Scholes option pricing model) and Robert Merton who together shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997. I guess that is what happens when you get your ass whooped by a newcomer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. ” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” goes into a startup. What is the True Sentiment of VCs?

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Software development wasn’t giving me the satisfaction I craved from working, and I had recently been part of a startup that was now a smoking crater after the Dot Com crash. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. Their smart engineering team hunted for C++ products to build and market.

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Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

When I first got there in 1997, I was taken aback by what I perceived as a display of wealth on campus. Because I recently had a “startup exit” a fellow alumnus asked me to join him in a slightly larger donation. Going to CMU for my Masters in Software Engineering was one of the single best decisions I’ve ever made.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

What’s the number one city for startups in the United States? Is it Silicon Valley, home to accelerators Y Combinator and 500 Startups and to tech giants Google and Facebook? As of now, the City of Austin’s startup density is greater than that of the Silicon Valley!

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. I own Elite Editing, a full-service editorial firm that offers outsourced solutions to businesses of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 50s. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. Tell Your Business Story! Accepting submissions.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine. The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. The dearth of trained computer science and engineering is crippling the growth of many Innovation Economy companies.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Heres what they had to say about developers doing double duty as designers, trends theyd like to see disappear, and how aesthetics can help a startup sink or swim. Is a web apps look and feel critical to its overall success or failure? "As As a designer, Id love to say its the most important element," said Benedetto. That shouldnt happen.

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