Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. The hardware trend showed that internet connection speeds were increasing, and by 2005, the speed of the connection would be sufficient that we could reasonably stream video in real time without resorting to heroic amounts of video compression or miracles in internet protocols.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" He was raised and educated in London.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

It occurred in a web design class I was taking and we were challenged to create a domain name followed by taking steps to create the site. 21- Communicate creativity. When I started Idea Grove in 2005, most PR firms had names like law firms – the name of the firm was the name of the owner or partners.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. How Google+ Is Changing the Web, Even Though No One Wants It To – [link].

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Google’s philosophy is that if it can help the open-source community, it will help the search giant in return. To qualify, you must request for, and complete, a free and open-source software coding project during the summer. The point is to keep geeks at the computer and stop them from venturing outside (I kid, I kid).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

We would leverage the voice of the customer, starting with customer reviews, all over the Web, starting with retailers. Believe it or not, there were only three retailers in 2005 that offered customer reviews, the most popular of them being Amazon. this was 2005. We became the world’s largest collaborative data community.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). How did the site come about?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Add to that being the owner of a well established business, as well as leading a massive online community we are growing and you’ve got a recipe for no free time. In our online community we are using breakthrough technology to start a revolution to change the face of the cleaning industry. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2019

Not only has this turned into actual paying clients, but it has increased my local influence and even lead to organic referrals simply by becoming better known in the community. I have also gained the confidence to create a ton of new web content and YouTube videos which have yielded a ton of leads from SEO. 40% Revenue Growth.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

She has been involved in the SEO community since 2006 and is widely known for her honest industry observations, her inability to not say exactly what she’s thinking, and her excessive on-the-clock twittering at @lisabarone. Get involved in Twitter chats, industry podcasts, and community events. Otherwise, yeah, nice Web site, dude.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

We’re highlighting key members of the community to find out. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. He then served as the Chairman and CEO of iMeet, a provider of web-conferencing services.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

As our digital agency focuses on search engine marketing the name fit perfectly in reference to the ‘web’, ‘spiders’ used to crawl web sites and the historic naming of an early search engine. I started my company in 2005 as a full-service marketing agency. Thanks to Mathew Porter, Kumo ! #2- 2- One Word.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Today one of our portfolio companies BigDoor announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OneTrueFan , a community and web check-in company. The former OneTrueFan team will be primarily focused on building and running a BigDoor branded rewards program that is targeted to long tail and medium size web publishers.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

At the launch of the company, the core email community (people with a lot of technical understanding) was our target audience. Donating a portion of all our profits to veteran and cancer research charities establishes our brand as a revolution in companies that give back to the community rather than leech off of their customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

He also offers a question-and-answer and learning community at ExploringSocialMedia.com. Social Media Explorer is also the name of Falls’s consulting company which focuses on strategic counsel for medium and large companies in the realm of social media marketing, digital marketing, online communications and public relations.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Today on WAAT we caught up with Damon Clinkscales, Web engineer at VitalSource building an e-textbook platform. Damon talks with us about founding Austin on Rails back in 2005. He also talks about the various tech communities in Austin and where you should get plugged in right away.

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Mucker Lab

JULY 23, 2013

The hard core collectibles enthusiasts (without beanie babies, there would not have been an eBay) still use eBay only because the lack of alternative, but the community that defined it in the past has evaporated. But that playbook can only take the company so far as it had begun to saturate its initial market back in 2005.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

The trend towards tiered levels of paid content will continue to escalate and the ability to foster community around your content will be the most important measure of value. Community buster Here’s the ironic thing: When people are invited into a community where everything is free, there’s actually less chance of building a strong community.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." " Web 1999/2000. It is no wonder why VCs are quite excited about next generation web companies. The post Web as platform appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

He also offers a question-and-answer and learning community at ExploringSocialMedia.com. Social Media Explorer is also the name of Falls’s consulting company which focuses on strategic counsel for medium and large companies in the realm of social media marketing, digital marketing, online communications and public relations.

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Mucker Lab

JULY 22, 2013

The hard core collectibles enthusiasts (without beanie babies, there would not have been an eBay) still use eBay only because the lack of alternative, but the community that defined it in the past has evaporated. But that playbook can only take the company so far as it had begun to saturate its initial market back in 2005.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users. So what would have happened had Sean met Joshua Schachter in 2005--would Josh have still sold out early to Yahoo! Say what you will about either company, they got up to huge userbases and had audaciously big aspirations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

A number of web based technologies such as Poll Everywhere have cropped up of late making it very affordable to poll audiences by having them use SMS and their own mobile device. For an event, this technology requires that there is a web connection available, but you can also use this in print or other environments to collect data.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. And that is precisely my thoughts for Seattle and what I plan to deliver on Thursday night: Which few key community leaders are going to step up and get those neurons properly firing and connected? My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2011

Scale the Wall Lots of companies out there want to provide apps for Facebook tabs and interactive welcome pages, but you must understand that the way people actually view your presence on Facebook is different than on, say, your Web site.

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Altgate

JANUARY 17, 2009

Elsewhere on the tour they have a bank of giant plasma screens showing web sessions with overlays of where people are looking. I was impressed that FCAT was not just looking into data visualization and manipulation, but also at social networking and communities. In another lab they had one of those 10 grand Microsoft Surface tables.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. But yeah, I think there's been a gap in having a community for second in commands. And then secondly was the text. I started to appear where we started to leverage or talk about technology and automations and optimization.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

As a result of all this Super Angel / Micro VC activity in the latter half of the decade, many larger, more prestigious Silicon Valley firms began losing some visibility and influence with the entrepreneur community, as that of First Round and Ron Conway and the PayPal Mafia and others similarly grew in influence. and no, we didn’t.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products. Today we’re online 3.1

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

Initially there was some skepticism about how effective cognitive training was, but nowadays, as more studies are published, it is gaining acceptance from the scientific community. While they may use mobile extensions, most second wave cognitive games are designed to be played on the web.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

But if you work in an environment where the person working next to you is a full-time Account Manager at an unrelated company, and a freelancer in the same workspace is working on their own web design projects, and you’re all working independently while sharing the same space… you are coworking! If you put up walls, there’s no point. “If

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Find out where your customers are on the web and be active in those communities. Your content isn’t good enough that the magic content fairies will find it and spread it around the internet. 8. Your Content Has No Chief Content Officer. Look at the great media brands like the Wall Street Journal. 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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