Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. manageability, scalability, reliability, security, and so forth). That moment is now.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

by Larry English, author of “ Office Optional: How to Build a Connected Culture with Virtual Teams “ When COVID-19 began, work-from-home seemed like a blessed stopgap — a way out of working in potentially health- and life-compromising environments, and a way to (partially) manage kids who had nowhere to go during the day.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. Were in a new wave of platform evolution.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Some might say this is because I am a college-aged millennial whose social skills have been stunted by technology, but I think it has more to do with the ease, convenience and immediacy the internet provides. One of the greatest industry challenges is educating the public about the security behind digital technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

It will be great to catch up with Idea Management System vendors like CogniStreamer , and innovation service firms like Ideas To Go and Maddock Douglas. “The contents are inspiring” – senior research manager, major food manufacturer using IdeaKeg since 2011. They’re always doing something new.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. And Jonathan has done artist management agency WISEgroup. In the U.K.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Initially you will likely be working out of our co-working space on West 36th St., Although we are open to various configurations of 2-5 people, we envision a team built around: a CEO, reporting directly to the Board; a Product Manager to harden the vision; and an Engineer to make the magic.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The Power of the Individual: This was the year that the individual, amplified by technology platforms, became empowered to rise against oppressions both large and small.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. These funds use a combination of cold-calling, travel, firm networks, paid expert networks, and technology to identify investment opportunities outside of their neighborhood.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. So how early should the founders pack their bags and ship out to the U.S.? Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. Marc and I discussed this often.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. Welcome, Logout. My Journal.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. As a Jew who grew up in Germany and moved to Israel in 1999, I find this stoic philosophy Israelis display as one of the country’s key elements of success. Photo Credit: AFP.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. 12 – It was Just Time. I was mostly just doing.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Managing Creativity. Science and Technology Technology. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Personal Finance.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I once mentioned this idea to a fellow SoCal VC when I told him I wanted a CIC in LA and he said, “Co-location is dead. Uh, I guess he won’t be co-sponsoring a technology lab in LA with me then? And you can tell that the founders have thought greatly about creating the right kind of space for startup companies.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

It’s written by David Brown and is the origin story of David Brown and David Cohen’s first company Pinpoint Technologies. Brown was one of the four co-founders of Techstars (with Cohen, me, and Jared Polis). Brown runs the organization day to day and Solon manages all the fund and capital formation activity.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Managers can defy old mind-sets and creatively search for superior solutions. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances. Why brand matters more than ever.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group. Susan Balloch, Managing Director of Golden Seeds. Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women. Click here to make a reservation.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. At that point I was a few years into my career and working as a project manager at Apple.

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Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. I have been in and around technology for over ten years. And this is one of the pillars we talk about internally, but also to our founders.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

I started out my career at the management consulting firm McKinsey which was a truly wonderful learning ground. We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). My co-founders and I started eVestment for two primary reasons. work everyday.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Except they won’t be called Product Managers. Some have made the model work.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

I managed to find a job at the Miami International Airport loading racehorses onto cargo planes. Eighteen months after arriving in Thailand, I was managing a group of 15 electronics technicians. For a guy who loved technology, I was certainly in the right place. I had no idea what would be at the end of the highway.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 3 – I was Fired Twice.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I'm sorry that I missed yesterday's Glamour Magazine panel on women in tech --if nothing else because it featured two of my favorite women in technology, Hilary Mason and Kara Swisher. Kara helped foster my interest in the business of technology. I followed her writing and bought her AOL book back in 1999.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Venture Capital Valuation 112

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

Nick DeSantis of the Chronicle of Higher Education writes about the incredible surge in investing in education technology start-ups. I was at the University of Chicago when a bunch distinguished professors created UNext.com during the late 1990s — BIG BUST just like the startup I joined in 1999).

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Indiana Cofounder Chicago Venture Capital 54

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I’ve been founding and helping run technology companies since 1999. The CEO of a startup must, must, must be the product manager. Use a bug tracking system and religiously manage development action items from it. . Co-locate as best possible but be willing to travel to remote offices to make multiple offices work.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry. 

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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