Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I ran six marathons , including four in eight weeks, and the last one of the year was the fastest since 2003 in 4:28:46. You can see my month in Tuscany in August and month in Paris in July, two weeks of vacation plus a little in Tucson (I guess I like Tucson), 16 nights in New York, 10 nights in San Francisco, and 10 nights in Seattle.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

By way of context: It took me 28 years (from summer fo 1975 til December of 2003) and at least four close encounters to see what seems to me so obvious after the fact. Expo San Francisco 2010 ) and a whole lot of them are very well positioned. If your ideas are any good, youll have to ram them down peoples throats."

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NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. Its executives sit in San Francisco, its CTO is based in the Dominican Republic, and its development team is in Belgrade.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

The new hot spots are San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, the east bay, etc. San Francisco - San Francisco has actually successfully co-opted the Silicon Valley magic and even surpassed it in some ways (Twitter, Salesforce.com); it’s again a very hot place to be right now and this will continue.

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California Southern California San Francisco Silicon Valley 20

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

For even more Lean Startup learning, register for The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 – 11 in San Francisco.'

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Lean Startup Software Engineering Agile 167

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). Urbanization of Startups.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco. It’s much more common for a startup in Austin or San Antonio to have investors in Dallas or Houston than it was just a few years ago. It’s much less common that startups feel like they have to move to San Francisco.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This is a representation of 2003 – 2013. It is said that in San Francisco, failure is worn more like a badge of honor. Taking the safe career option, the regular job, the job that pays the bills, is admirable. But it stifles those with the potential to be great entrepreneurs. It scares them to try. We need to make failure OK.

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Europe South Korea San Francisco Portugal 163

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

So last year Eileen Lee, did this amazing study where she dug into data going back to 2003. The nine teams we have people in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin and Atlanta. You will never be able to pay back your funds if you do not have one of these 6 companies a year. Four companies a year matter.

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Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. Matt Watson: Yeah, we worked with a firm that was out in San Francisco that represented us, and so they ran a big process for us when we were trying to raise capital, to do that round. They were very much a luxury item.

Kansas City 40

Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Developers 40

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I dont think sharding came from the MMO world, we were using the term at Google before MMOs started becoming popular. Eric, I stop by regularly!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. In the summer of this year, I moved to San Francisco and founded a new startup that makes music related games and hardware controllers that connect to the iPhone.

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Continuous Deployment Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Francisco 164

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. As an example, we estimate that ride-sharing revenues in San Francisco are well north of 10X what taxis and black cars were providing prior to the launch of ride-sharing.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

So I decided to run the London Marathon in April 2003, just 3 weeks before my son was born. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born. Except that after the acquisition Salesforce.com required that I commute more than an hour each way from Palo Alto to San Francisco. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 31, 2014

Q: Philz started in 2003 with a single shop in the Mission District. Parking in San Francisco. CEO Jacob Jaber has made sure the personal touch is maintained through fast growth – 14 current locations – caffeinating artists, designers, engineers and everyday people. It’s about personalization. localbiz'

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San Francisco Social Media SMS Community 123

Hunter Walker

JULY 24, 2018

Caveats: this was 2001-2003 for me so some memories might be hazy or inaccurate, and although I’m writing this post, I’m not taking “credit” for the underlying work done. It was so much fun reminiscing about what we observed that I wanted to document some stuff here. But how to convey privacy to new users?

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Design San Francisco Audio Community 62

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

This was my first real running injury since I started running marathons in 2003. Amy and I flew from New York to San Diego and I took a second one. On Friday I flew to San Francisco for the day and took a third one. I had my first pain free run in five months. And I’m very happy right now.

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San Diego San Francisco Alaska New York 103

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. Inside Twitter’s New San Francisco Headquarters [PICS]. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. What questions do you have for Lawee?

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

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Equity San Francisco Technical Review Angel Investor 87

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital San Francisco New Zealand 69