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Avalon Ventures Raises A New $200 Million Fund And Gets A New Website

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In conjunction with their financing, Avalon just rolled out a new website designed by Slice of Lime. Slice of Lime is a Boulder-based firm that we work closely with that was founded around 2000 by Kevin Menzie and Jeff Rodanski and then joined by my brother Daniel Feld a few years ago.

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How To Predict The Future

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The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. I chose to use computers I owned that were designed for compactness for their time. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Streaming video had finally made it. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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Back From Sabattical

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Since 2000, Amy and I have been taking a week of the grid every quarter. We watched 24 Second Edition (also known as Designated Survivor.) Amy and I just got back from a month off the grid in Aspen. If you are an Atlas Shrugged fan, think of it like the annual trip to Galt’s Gulch. No conference calls. No Google Hangouts.

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Monthly Dinner With My Brother

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Last night I had dinner with my brother Daniel, one of the partners at Slice of Lime , a Boulder-based web design and development firm. In 2000, Charlie and I became business partners when Mobius Venture Capital invested in The Feld Group and I joined the board.

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The REPL For Hardware

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You start with a 3D image, which you can either design, get from the web, or get from Thingiverse or Pinshape , Formlabs and Glowforge printers then provide the REPL – it reads the 3D code, evaluates it, and prints it. By the end of 2000, they had shipped 50 million of them. Let’s go back to REPL. On your desktop.

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The Future of Transportation

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I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. The barrier to flying cars is not in the design or building of a viable airframe. There’s always been a sweet spot in my heart for flying cars.