Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2018

“We cannot afford the advertising business model. I think my favorite, only because it’s so provocative, is the one with Roger McNamee titled ‘You Have a Persuasion Engine Unlike Any Created in History’. I loved this quote by Tristin Harris in the New York Magazine article The Internet Apologizes ….

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital. Also in the 80’s, the megafunds were created (at the time defined as $100 million plus); the LBO sector outperformed venture through financial engineering; asset gatherers, such as Blackstone, were created.

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