Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I also plan to price it low so it has the potential for broad distribution. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). We Need To Be Like Silicon Valley. Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! Boulder As A Laboratory.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. An important message from The Journal.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Brentwood Associates [Silicon Valley] –> Founded in the early 70s and focused primarily on VC, Brentwood had big wins in both IT like Wellfleet Communications (big chunk of what eventually became Nortel) and WebTV (part of Microsoft) and healthcare (various businesses that make up a big chunk of what is now Medtronic and Baxter).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. It was the central node of the consumer Internet industry. Yes, I passed up all that. And I regret it to this day.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. The web browsers are as immature as the Internet browsers were in the late 90’s. These phones were so over hyped.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Jonathan: Silicon Valley (HBO). Our last sign, sign number 12 is when your time distribution is uneven. It’s free for up to your first 2000 subscribers. Jonathan: Well, most recently they are coming up to the end of their second season, but Silicon Valley is a pretty hilarious show. Jonathan: Cool.

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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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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company). The way I do it.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

For example, a couple of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley created a company to develop an iPhone social-media app. By the year 2000, the global market for personal computers exceeded 140 million units a year. First via the phone and later via the Internet. ” YouTube owns “Internet videos.”

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. How did you first get into tech and come to Silicon valley?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. My name is John Bates.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets. Today it’s the Internet that’s going to put the studios out of business. No one was ever going to buy music again.

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