Feld Thoughts

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. Amy likes to remind me that when I was an entrepreneur, I used to regularly give talks at MIT about entrepreneurship.

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

When I reflect on all of this, it seems painfully obvious to me (and maybe to you also) that the best way to popularize “data as a service&# is to start with an API (which creates the revenue model dynamic) and build a bunch of open source examples on top of it.

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We Will Never Need Another Financing

Feld Thoughts

There are also companies, like my first one (Feld Technologies) that bootstrapped and never raised any money. But I’m not talking about bootstrapped companies. Your revenue growth flattens out for a few quarters but you didn’t get ahead of the cost dynamic. Well – almost no money.

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