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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. For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. 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. For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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The Formula

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He described his new business in the words of his last successful business, which exited in 2000. I have no idea what he’s done between 2000 and 2012 – he didn’t go into it, but he used his 1996 – 2000 experience to explain why his new business was going to be great. VCs use The Formula constantly.

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Investment vs. Speculation

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In the mid-1990s, when I had a bunch of money after the sale of my first company, I bought and sold some public company stocks. They happily traded equities for me, which mostly just cost me fees in the end, although I covered it all with a crazy transaction into a weird Exchange Fund that GS created in 2000. my investment.

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Investment vs. Speculation

Feld Thoughts

In the mid-1990s, when I had a bunch of money after the sale of my first company, I bought and sold some public company stocks. They happily traded equities for me, which mostly just cost me fees in the end, although I covered it all with a crazy transaction into a weird Exchange Fund that GS created in 2000. my investment.

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RIP Len Fassler

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It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. I remember clearly a phone call on 12/1/2000 where Len called me from NYC. Soon after, Len called me and asked if I’d be interested in selling Feld Technologies to Sage Alerting.

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Amazon’s Scorpion Problem

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AWS sales are off slightly. Second quarter net sales of AWS — or at least the category in which it is embedded– were off about 3 percent sequentially to $1.168 billion from $1.204 billion for the first quarter. “Could Amazon Web Services be feeling the heat from new public cloud competitors?

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