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Implementing Social Media’s Secret Weapon

Feld Thoughts

I completely agree that email is the key communications channel for social media and have written about this before in posts like 100% Click Through Rate , Email – The Original Social Graph and Email Is Still The Best Login. In Fred’s post, the comm channel is email. But email isn’t the only comm channel.

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I Don’t Hate Crypto

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Earlier last year, one of my partners told me that I’d developed a reputation with other VCs (presumably our partner funds ) that I hate crypto. I’m regularly cynical about things on our internal Slack channel and periodically post about big blowups, including in crypto.

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Geared Up for Another Intense Covid Week

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At Foundry Group, my partners and I spent most of our week focused inwardly on our portfolio, individual companies, supporting our partner funds, and providing as much content and connection as we could across all the companies in a rapidly changing environment. Our world is in a crisis unlike any I’ve experienced in my life.

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16-49-81

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When we were just four partners, our communication matrix was 16. We added three new partners and it became 49. It happens in real time, on multiple channels, between all of us. We have no intermediaries in our process – the seven partners are the ones interacting, with our GC and CFO now in the information flow.

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RIP Len Fassler

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It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. If you’ve ever worked with me in any deal capacity, I’m channeling Len. Soon after, Len called me and asked if I’d be interested in selling Feld Technologies to Sage Alerting.

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Sonos + Alexa Strategy

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Or maybe special access to curated channels. Or live music that is syndicated from a different partner. 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.

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Building An Autonomous and Virtual World: Softbank Teams With Mapbox

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I’ve posted about the massive founder crush my partners and I have on Eric Gundersen, the CEO of Mapbox. 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.