Feld Thoughts

MARCH 28, 2020

There is a new, private-sector volunteer organization (and a non-profit) called Citizen Software Engineers (CSE) run by Tim Miller (you may know Tim as the Rally Software CEO from near inception through their acquisition by CA) that is part of my Innovation Response Team.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2011

My friend Krista Marks (now at Disney – which acquired her first company – Kerpoof ) sent me a copy of the graduation speech she gave at the University of South Carolina College of Engineering and Computing on May 8th. In 1989, I graduated with degree in Electrical Engineering from the USC. Enjoy and be inspired!

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. When you ponder Techstars acquisition of UP Global, especially if you think about how horizontal scaling and geography intersect, you get a glimpse of another layer of functionality that we just added to the horizontal scaling model.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Engineering growth rate – Unless you are making an acquisition and running it separately or sub-dividing engineering in some novel way, you should strive not to more than double a monolithic engineering organization in a 12-month period. Communicate the budgets to the team.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

This blog, your site, and how search engines like Google and Bing rank you and your relevance were all dependent upon links. The technology LinkSmart’s founder Pete Sheinbaum and his team have assembled is analogous to many of the solutions we’ve seen and invested in for search engine optimization (SEO) such as SEOMoz.

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