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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

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I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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

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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. In conjunction with their financing, Avalon just rolled out a new website designed by Slice of Lime.

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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

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In 2000, I invested via Mobius Venture Capital in The Feld Group and joined the board. Sure – we have conflict, disagreements, and disappointments, but they have been profound in shaping my development as a business person and a human. This took our relationship to a new level. I treasure every moment I have with each of them.

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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. It’s still necessary to imagine the future development (although the trends can help inspire ideas). Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Streaming video had finally made it. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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Participate in the Context.IO App Challenge

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is a product of Return Path , where I’ve been on the board since 2000. It’s an API that developers can use to build applications that integrate their users’ email data (contacts, files, messages, threads, receipts, and rule-based notifications). Implementation of Idea: Was the idea well executed by the developer? Context.IO

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BigDoor Acquires OneTrueFan

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Recently the market demand has been outpacing their ability to keep up, so they turned to OneTrueFan as a means of accelerating their product development and overall growth. When there is a great fit, I love seeing our portfolio companies make acquisitions. Todd and Eric have been friends of mine for a long time.