Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2014

Two big proposals from Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick today. He’s also proposing an incredibly clever and innovative approach to immigration reform applicable only to Massachusetts. The Massachusetts non-competition situation has always been stupid. First, he’s proposing to ban non-competition agreements.

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JUNE 13, 2017

SVB had previously supported the Global EIR program in Boston with the University of Massachusetts, so I was delighted when they jumped on the opportunity to join a fundraising match with me across the entire country. In 2009, I was inspired when two of the ten Techstars Boulder companies that year had international founders.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

I am not talking about wooing potential partners at fancy lunches, or drinks with clients after work, or even the whiteboard sessions that can fill our days. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 requires all states to set up health insurance exchanges by January of 2014.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2010

My frat at MIT has spawned numerous startups that I’ve written about in the past, including my post on 351 Massachusetts Avenue (home of the first office for my first company – Feld Technologies).

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APRIL 22, 2010

In the post I described the entrepreneurship education event I helped put on with Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners – then at Sequoia Capital) and Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures). Alex Moore is am working on Baydin with a partner from Dartmouth, making email clients smarter and more useful. Not surprisingly, it blew my mind!

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2015

That night I met Dave Jilk, my first business partner and one of my best friends. I never knew what it was going to be, so I was always very excited when the blue Petcom check showed up at 351 Massachusetts Avenue in my mail cubby. My dad, a doctor, was a small partner in a bunch of real estate partnerships. via chartsbin.com.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

” That was the question one of my students asked me three years ago when I quietly told him my plan to start a design museum in Boston with my friend and business partner, Derek Cascio. Derek and I co-founded Design Museum Boston in 2009 to educate the public about the role of design in our lives. Remember 2008/2009?

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