Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2020

I’ve been involved in gender inequity issues since I joined the National Center for Women & Information Technology board in 2005 shortly after it was formed. I told Shila that I’d do the AMA and underwrite all eight founders who were not in a position to make the investment. The hurt is everywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. But startups can shoot themselves in the foot when founders use consultants at the wrong time or in the wrong way.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It really is most likely, no matter the size of your company that you’ll end up with a hybrid solution, even if most of your technology is in the cloud or on premise. About the author: John Quinn is the principal and founder of Merrimac Solutions, which he started in 2005.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We asked 10 founders to share what they think the future of personalized shopping holds (ecommerce entrepreneurs, listen up!). As a bonus, this same technology will be a boost to the fitness industry as consumers can see their bodies change (for better or worse) from one fitting to the next. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Because there is often a lot at stake for a new company, its wise to ask where you will fit in among founders and first hires — and how you can make a direct impact on the companys success. What are your founders goals? If interviewing with a founder, Id ask what the founder hoped to gain from the venture.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Smaller equals faster in processor technology.). But manufacturing technology has proceeded to get smaller and smaller.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Facebook acquihired the Branch team on Monday there were some gasps because Branch founder/CEO Josh Miller had been outspoken re: Facebook’s challenges. Facebook’s Head of Product Chris Cox is, gasp, in his 30s and joined Facebook in 2005. Myopic groupthink kills more companies than constructive criticism ever will.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2015

Scott Schreiman is the founder and chief executive officer of Samepage , a division of Kerio Technologies, Inc. Scott joined Kerio in 2005 and has over 18 years of senior management experience in sales, business development, marketing, operations and finance.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We make a minority of our investments in new technology areas where deep technical innovation is occurring and where we believe there is will be a large future market opportunity. For these companies, we look for deep technology differentiation plus early market validation or clear opportunity for such.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy. Want to be a guest on the show?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. I farmed out work to Wharton undergrads that were in the Management of Technology program. Still in business today and run by my co-founder.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# some founders lose their life savings. But everything has intrinsic value.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. I started to appear where we started to leverage or talk about technology and automations and optimization. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. In 2005, SETI@home changed its software: instead of the old SETI@home Classic they started using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing , or BOINC for short — a software framework that enables volunteers to participate in projects other than SETI@home.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The best example I have of this is looking at what happened with YouTube; it came about at the right time, with the right team, and the right technology. Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005. The Right Technology. The Right Time.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

One of Asia’s biggest regional technology and startup blogs just got bigger – Tech in Asia ( Techinasia.com ) just announced its acquisition of fellow Singapore-based tech blog SGEntrepreneurs (SGE) for an undisclosed sum, entrenching itself as one of the leading English language blogs covering the technology scene in Asia.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Once again, as we find ourselves in the middle of a significant public market correction, especially around technology stocks, there’s an enormous amount of noise in the system, as there always is. I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005. I have two simple rules for founders in my head from this experience.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. Nothing can be more damaging than a misleading or careless CTO.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The co-founders that shook the world Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. How to find a co-founder. Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur at the moment, and resources such as WorkInStartups , Founder2Be and Enternships have sprung up to help people locate co-founders and create or work in startups. Guest post by Paul Higgins*.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. As we’ve evolved, we’ve focused on more on initiatives that leverage technology. How we embrace technology for good. 3 specific issues: 1.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In 2005, Jay Hallberg, founder, and chairman of Spiceworks met with three friends in Austin to create what has become Spiceworks. They wanted a place where IT professionals could connect and talk about technology. That free platform evolved into a sophisticated social network for IT professionals.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 8, 2017

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News Heather Hoover, executive vice president of operations at uShip, joined the company in 2005, a year after its founding. Nick Parker, chief technology officer at uShip, and the founders […].

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. It’s that simple.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Stephen Sheinbaum is the founder of Bizfi , the leading fintech company with a platform that combines aggregation, funding and a marketplace for small businesses, and has more than 25 years of financial technology experience building companies and launching products within organizations.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Meanwhile, Micro VC has focused on sweeping changes in technology and consumer internet adoption that have enabled dramatically reduced capital requirements for building new software companies, as well as accelerated access to customers via search, social, and mobile platforms. and no, we didn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion. 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. Reader beware.). Open Government. Android Backlash.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Stephanie is the founder of Grow Disrupt , a company that designs & produces educational, application-focused events that re-invigorate & inspire entrepreneurs. As the founder of On Line Support , Eric has a wealth of technology, service and business expertise garnered from more than 30 years in the technology/telecom industry.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. You’ve got to take steps to improve your operations and that begins with technology , like incorporating a cloud-based accounting system and social media management tools. Every entrepreneur starts out with dreams of success. Small Business administration on choosing a new location.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Dan is the Co-founder and president of Podcast Movement, the world’s largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. He's a co-founder and president of podcast movement, the world's largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. I actually started mine in, in 2005. This is John Jantsch.

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