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Book: In the Beginning…Was the Command Line

Feld Thoughts

I’ve read all of his books, some of them multiple times. Stephenson wrote it in 1999. The post Book: In the Beginning…Was the Command Line appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Well, except the Baroque Cycle trilogy, which I’m saving for a special period of time to get lost in them, and from everything.

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Book: The Startup Playbook

Feld Thoughts

If you are working on your first startup, this is the book for you. Hopefully, the Foreword I wrote reflects my belief in the quality and importance of this book. Over 13,000 people bought the book, it’s a 4.8-star star review book on Amazon (with 100 reviews), and it sold out.

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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the highlights of my time at Intuit was being part of a skunkworks team in 1999 that developed Intuit’s first payment service, the QuickBooks Merchant Account Service. Jeff and I have shared all of these lessons in our new book The Intrapreneur’s Journey.

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Book Short: New Advice from an Old Friend

OnlyOnce

That’s why I was excited to read my friend Matt Spielman’s new book, Inflection Points: How to Work and Live with Purpose. When I first met Matt and he joined me and Jack to launch Return Path in 1999, he was fresh out of business school and focused on sales and marketing from his prior career in investment banking.

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The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or …

Feld Thoughts

In 1999 we filed an S-1 to take Sage Networks public. I spent three weeks on a road show with our president and CFO building the book. Two days before we were supposed to price, the book was 10x oversubscribed and our $9 – $11 price looked like it could move up meaningfully. I was a co-founder and co-chairman.

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Market Like Its 1999 In 2015 – 9 Marketing Strategies That Worked Back Then & Still Work Now

YoungUpstarts

When it came to ROI in 1999, the bigger, brighter, and more noticeable your yellow pages’ ad was, the better. Yes, we know there was email marketing in 1999, but it was in its infancy. Print catalogs worked in 1999, and they still work today. In 1999, business buyers had stacks of corporate brochures and folders on hand.

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6 Mistakes Often Made By Entrepreneurs Due To Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

As I was contemplating a classic book “ Dead Companies Walking ,” by Scott Fearon, who runs a hedge fund that profits from businesses headed toward bankruptcy, I realized that his insights on the common ways that mature companies often doom themselves apply equally well to startups. But I’m not convinced that it’s as simple as that.