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It’s An Agile World

Feld Thoughts

” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. The backend infrastructure that handles all the Internet connectivity and services for a world-wide distributed technology that was built by a team of 150 engineers overseas. operates at seven 9s reliability.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. Arin Fishkin did all the original graphic design. It just took another 1st place at CES.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” When I was was in college, I found some books written on the future social impact of the Internet on the World. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. I’ve been here before.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. I first blogged about this in 2004—14 years ago!— Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. (This post is running concurrently on the Return Path blog.). online experience.

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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. I first blogged about this in 2004—14 years ago!— Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. (This post is running concurrently on the Return Path blog.). online experience.