Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 7, 2023
It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Fail fast and pivot.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 2, 2015
In 1999 things were moving so theoretically quickly that everything was a total blur. Instead, as time passed, my approach to communicating with people changed, although lots of humans in my world still want to get together face to face or fly to meet me for 30 minutes when a video conference would be perfectly adequate.
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YoungUpstarts
JUNE 12, 2019
He stayed up late into the evening hours swigging bourbon, practicing his moves, and watching YouTube videos. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. In his mind, Mikey worked hard Monday through Friday sharpening his craft.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 12, 2020
It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Fail fast and pivot.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 22, 2010
Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. NOTE: In the video I talked about how VC’s and entrepreneurs decide the total number of shares at the first major funding round and why it’s often a high number.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
Predicting Streaming Video and the Birth of the Spreadsheet. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. Streaming video had finally made it.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2010
It was Steve Blank – creator of the “customer development” process, founder of E.piphany (a high profile CRM company in the late 90’s that IPO’d in 1999), instructor at both Stanford and Berkeley and author of a well read blog. But there was one that stood out above the rest as the one that “brought the house down.” I felt the same way.
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