Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2016

. ++ 50 E-BOOKs of The Business Blockchain. ++ 50 E-BOOKs of Centerless. ++ 50 Print copies of Centerless. ++ Your Name in the Acknowledgements for BOTH books, and on the website. ++ Invitation to Slack private channel. ++ 45 mins Conference Call Discussion with your team to discuss your Blockchain strategy.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2023

I’m regularly cynical about things on our internal Slack channel and periodically post about big blowups, including in crypto. At the time, I deflected and said that I didn’t hate crypto; I just thought there was considerable Ponzi-like behavior in crypto. I realize that I’m conflating speculation vs. investment.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2020

I’ve been in the Slack channel from inception and it’s just amazing to see what they’ve done. They were started 26 days ago, have 2023 community volunteers, are working with 105 organizations, and have delivered 14,335 pieces of PPE as of this morning.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2020

Someone also set up a Slack channel for the course which I was active in and met a number of new friends. We’ve now had over 20,000 people take it. The last cycle was particularly fun as several of the AMAs I did had around 1,000 people on it. Registration is open now.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 4, 2023

Thankfully SiriusXM has Channel 34: Lithium. The article uses the Kmart / Bluelight.com / Spinway story to set up the conclusion. We were in the middle of it (Softbank Venture Capital/Mobius invested in Bluelight.com and Spinway.)

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 23, 2020

Finally, I’ve re-engaged on Twitter , Facebook , and Linkedin as communication channels. The organizations desperately need funding now so if you have resources, please contribute – any amount is appreciated. Our world is in a crisis unlike any I’ve experienced in my life.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Commodore 64 has an RF jack on the back that carries both image and sound, requiring something that can convert that signal to split audio and video channels. Here’s how you stream from a Commodore 64 to Zoom. A VCR is faster, easier, and more reliable than any other converter, but you can also use an RF modulator.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2021

We didn’t watch very much television in my house growing up – mostly PBS (Channel 13 in Dallas) and sports my dad liked to watch (mostly Dallas Cowboys football.) Today, one of the things we riffed on was our respective first political memories. Mine was Richard Nixon being impeached. I was seven years old.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 16, 2016

For at least three months, I joined a number of relevant channels for each organization and tried to participate. And, for a few of the CEOs, we used Slack as our primary DM channel. It’s a fascinating group of randomly connected people who ramped up a handful of channels over the weekend. Most were in one channel.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 14, 2016

I realized yesterday, as I was driving to Denver, that my comm channels shifted again after I returned from sabbatical in December. So – instead of an always or or interrupt channel, my email has turned into a more periodic (several times a day) comm channel. The largest change is that I’m batching my email.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 3, 2010

I’m channeling Sawyer’s points of view as a public service announcement since he’s uncomfortable being named publicly – these are his words, not mine. Today’s post is on the famed “Eastern District of Texas” (EDTX), one of the most popular places in the United States for patent litigation.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 8, 2018

It happens in real time, on multiple channels, between all of us. We describe our communication and decision-making process as continuous. We have very specific ways of reacting to new data which can flip quickly to a yes or no decision, rather than storing things up and making a collective decision at the end with summarized information.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 14, 2019

Privately, though, many of the men interviewed acknowledged they’re channeling Pence, saying how uneasy they are about being alone with female colleagues, particularly youthful or attractive ones, fearful of the rumor mill or of, as one put it, the potential liability.” But I apparently am wrong.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2015

I’ll be doing an AMA on Product Hunt’s new Book Channel on Friday 7/24 at 1130 AM PST. The post AMA on Product Hunt About Startup Communities appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Oh – and the best thing I got electronically for my birthday was from Andrei Soroker via a different channel – Kato. .” I didn’t love these characterizations, but this prompted me to write this post in an effort to understand it better.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

But I’ve worked very hard to cut all of the noise out of my email channel – I have no email subscriptions (thanks OtherInBox ), I get no spam (thanks Postini ), I run zero inbox (read and reply / archive immediately), and am very selective with the notifications I get via email (i.e.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2017

Or maybe special access to curated channels. Sonos doesn’t have to look very hard to figure out what to do since they – well – are central to music and have integrated many subscription services. Give me a free month of a service I haven’t yet activated. Or live music that is syndicated from a different partner.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

There are too many different channels to reach me and they aren’t effectively conditioned – I either have to open them up to everyone (e.g. I’m going to dig deeper into “cross channel” software that helps me deal with the flow of information. I may hack together a few things to help me manage it.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 11, 2017

What is the composition and health of your channel? You can shift to more specific questions around a category like sales such as: Are you making progress on lowering churn? Have you moved from monthly to annual deals? Are you trying to get three-year deals done?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2017

Extending the patent rights beyond the first sale would clog the channels of commerce, with little benefit from the extra control that the patentees retain,” Roberts wrote. While a little more subtle, it’s equally important since this was another classic move by a certain category of company to limit downstream competition.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Instead, channel your need to please to spending time with customers. And, if you are a CEO who is naturally a people pleaser and you are in this situation (happy employees, unhappy customers) you are likely destroying your business. You are not going to please all of your employees. That’s not your job as CEO.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

It’s called Cheezburger Sites and lets anyone create their own humor channel on the web. My friends at Cheezburger Networks have been rolling out what we have internally been calling Cheezburger 3.0. In my never ending effort to poke fun at myself – and other VCs – I’ve created a site called I Can Has A VC.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2014

It was for a video segment on a painting I had done that showed on Channel 13 (our public TV station.) I’ve tossed it up on SoundCloud for your listening pleasure. This recording was done by KERA, our Dallas-based public radio and TV station when I was four. My mom hasn’t been able to find the video so the audio will have to do.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The only other daily / continuous information I get is Techmeme River (which streams into a Slack channel) and Google Alerts on all the companies we are investors in. The Term Sheet (now by Erin Griffith). Data Sheet (by Adam Lashinsky). StrictlyVC.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 27, 2013

I’ve stayed in touch with Barnana guys as they have continued to grow into new channels and regions. They literally handed me a box of bananas, filled with these delicious organic banana snacks called Barnana. They have since vanished into my stomach. They are insanely good. More Barnanas for me.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 2, 2017

Since they were channeling these emotions, they realized this was a self-limiting perspective. At some point, the co-founders talked about their past. They had never actually met, and each realized that their emotions were a function of the hostile relationship between the CEOs. They became friends.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m going to experiment with some different channels this year. I’m putting up a lot more content on the Startup Revolution site and I’ll be adding at least one more channel in the next 30 days. If you’ve figured out a great way to be a multi-channel content publisher, I’m all ears.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2018

I’m off my phone, email, text, vox, and other digital channels. Long-time readers and friends will know that I generally take a digital sabbath for 24 hours starting Friday night and ending Saturday night (and often Sunday morning.) I read hard copy books or on my Kindle, but try to stay completely off the web.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

These are not C-students who think entrepreneurship is an easy way to stay “employed”; these are top students that just need a channel to start doing stuff. For those students looking to get involved in Boulder and in Denver, I always point them towards Startup Summer , a program out of Startup Colorado.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2011

” Specifically, Awe.sm’s goal is to become the key infrastructure provider powering quantitative performance marketing across the social sharing channel. We love things that wire the web together and believe Awe.sm is the company to do that for the construct of “sharing.”

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Sawyer has decided that he can’t write publicly about his thoughts and experiences so I’ve agreed to channel his experience into my own parallel universe. While East Marshall isn’t quite as nice as an invisible, mysterious island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it clearly has a number of similar characteristics.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 24, 2017

I’m not looking at news (I figure anything I really need to know will find its way to me) other than my continuous stream of tech news in my a Slack channel. I’m not looking at social media (although I am still broadcasting.) My Sunday New York times habit will be banished until after Labor Day.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In the years since, with massive customer launches like Snapchat and the Weather Channel, the horizontal scale of Mapbox’s platform is now much more obvious. There was no AR or autonomous back when he was in Afghanistan, but there was a need for location data and a better mapping platform.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Now, before you jump to “use a different channel than email”, recognize that I have also Slack, Kato, iMessage, Twitter, Facebook, Skype, and Google Hangouts open on my desktop with stuff hitting them all day long. Voxer lights up regularly on my iPhone, along with notifications from each of these apps.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 26, 2017

To do this, I withdrew on several dimensions, especially via social media and online channels, which diminished my experience, but allowed me time and space to think. I’ve continued to do what felt important and right to me while listening and learning. I worked hard to eliminate the noise and concentrate on the signal.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 27, 2016

If you are reading this on Medium and have seen other posts of mine in the past month, tell me if you think it’s been worth it for me to republish what is on Feld Thoughts to my Brad Feld channel on Medium. I’ve been using the Medium WordPress plugin to republish my posts automatically.

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