Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2010

Not long after I posted about Dave Jilk’s experience with the Pogoplug , he started using the phrase “Pogoplug Simple&# to describe one of the goals of Standing Cloud. The Trial Edition makes it easy to test drive any of about thirty different open source applications on any of several cloud server providers.

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MARCH 6, 2023

My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. The first year that GlueCon occurred, it seemed like nearly every session began with someone defining “what cloud computing is.”

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Experiencing modern Office with SkyDrive: Cloud-first. SkyDrive For Android: Microsoft Gets A Hit In the Clouds. Somehow that doesn’t surprise me, but everything else about SkyDrive does. What a fun discovery. Related articles. No compromises. Let’s welcome SkyDrive to the party.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

She had some comments relevant to her business and offered to put together a Twitter word cloud print for @FoundryGroup. A few months ago Suzy Kendrick of CanvasPop reached out to me after I wrote a blog post titled What’s Your Product Cadence. It came out great and is now hanging in our office.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In additional TechStars Cloud launched today along with the first episode of TechStars on Bloomberg TV. But, through the magic of daily deals, there are 20 available for a 20% discount ($2,000). This is a one time offer from my friends at MakerBot so grab ‘em while they are available.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Standing Cloud , one of the Boulder-based companies we seed funded last year, is hiring a Java Developer. They are a provider of software and services that facilitate deployment and management of application software, using on-demand cloud servers from providers such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, and others.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Earlier today, Alan wrote an article on Standing Cloud titled Seeding the Cloud with Open Source, Standing Cloud Makes It Easy. Tags: Open Source gist network world pogoplug security shimel standing cloud zynga. Related posts: Open Source as a Dumping Group. The Re-Rise of Open Source. Open Source or Closed Source?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

“Duh, websites are developed, launched, and run in the cloud” will be common knowledge soon enough. With Multidev we set a bar for the software industry on what is possible when custom software is built, launched, and run in the cloud. The biggest ideas are usually the simple ones.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Today, there was a great review of the Pogoplug in Walt Mossberg’s column in the Wall Street Journal titled Get Your Storage Out of the Cloud. If you have an external hard drive or are considering cloud storage for any meaningful amount of data, you owe it to yourself to grab a Pogoplug. They are remarkable – they just work.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Today, there was a great review of the Pogoplug in Walt Mossberg’s column in the Wall Street Journal titled Get Your Storage Out of the Cloud. If you have an external hard drive or are considering cloud storage for any meaningful amount of data, you owe it to yourself to grab a Pogoplug. They are remarkable – they just work.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

I’ve been friends with and co-invested with Rich Levandov , one of Avalon’s partners, since the mid-1990′s, most recently in Standing Cloud , Zynga , and NewsGator. Congrats to my friends at Avalon Ventures on raising their new $200 million fund.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 14, 2011

You likely no longer sit around with a screwdriver setting up a server in a datacenter – instead you are using a cloud provider like Rackspace or Amazon. Don’t waste precious development time on all the activities around the app. Don’t spent your time coding up an email notification infrastructure – use SendGrid.

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MAY 5, 2021

I enabled iCloud to upload all the files to the cloud, and we spent a bunch of time discussing why that would probably take a few days over their slow internet connection, but then everything would be on her computer and in the cloud.

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JULY 29, 2014

.” Over the weekend, there was some commentary on AWS in fight of its life as customers like Dropbox ponder hybrid clouds and Google pricing. “Could Amazon Web Services be feeling the heat from new public cloud competitors? Computer Industry amazon aws cloud competition google microsoft partners'

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JULY 8, 2013

Entrepreneurship business Cloud Computing DevOps management Wall Street' And of course, you can always find the latest writings on DevOps at the IT Revolution blog , where you can get our free whitepaper “The Top 11 Things You Need To Know About DevOps.”. Long live DevOps!

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

My partner in my first company (Dave Jilk – now the CEO of Standing Cloud ) used to have an endearing way of dealing with this. The person responded with a five minute explanation with a lot of details, all factually correct and contextually relevant, but at the end still didn’t answer the question.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

In the past we’ve discovered new investments (such as Cloud Engines ) and seen lots of companies we are investors in make good progress (e.g. An early morning run, followed by eight hours of walking around playing with technology, followed by three hours hanging out with good friends and colleagues at a great Las Vegas restaurant.

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MARCH 8, 2011

Our friend the cloud is making this an even more dramatic separation as hardware resources become elastic, dynamic, and much easier for the software layer folks to deploy and use. The hardware is rapidly becoming an abstraction in a lot of cases. And, as a result, there’s a different type of activity on the software layer.

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JUNE 19, 2012

TechStars and Microsoft have been so pleased with the program that a second cycle of the Microsoft Accelerator in Seattle has been added focusing on cloud-based applications. If you are an entrepreneur working on something cloud computing related, especially in the Microsoft ecosystem, consider applying to the Microsoft Accelerator today.

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MARCH 15, 2015

Headquartered in San Francisco, AppDirect makes it easy for businesses to find, buy, manage, and monitor cloud services from a central location. They also give providers and developers an easy way to distribute, sell, and market cloud services. Well, not always, and the process of managing multiple cloud services can be a mess.

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APRIL 25, 2011

After all the obvious “oh my god, AWS is down&# articles followed by the “see – I told you the cloud wouldn’t work&# articles, some thoughtful analysis and suggestions have started to appear. Wrong lesson #1: The infrastructure cloud is either not ready for prime time, or never will be.

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MAY 12, 2020

For the past few years, the month of May has been more like Seattle weather than Colorado weather, so while spring is transitioning into summer, heavy clouds hang over us. It’s gloomy in Colorado today. I seem to have two types of days right now. Type 1 is what happens between Monday morning and Friday afternoon.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Raj and the team at JumpCloud had begun exploring the notion of a cloud-based directory, I was intrigued and remember the first conversation well. Turns out, it was more than just moving Active Directory to the cloud. Conceptually it was very interesting. So, the JumpCloud team went to work and started executing on that concept.

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JUNE 23, 2014

The IT sector is undergoing some interesting transformations as a result of the cloud, DevOps, and mobile. Computer Industry cloud IT jumpcloud survey' It’s only about five minutes long and they are sharing all of the raw data (anonymized, of course). The survey ends at the end of June. I’m interested to see what the data tells us.

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JUNE 2, 2011

I find it endlessly entertaining that people say things like “I don’t need to back up my data anymore because it’s in the cloud.&# These people have never experienced a cloud failure, accidentally deleted a specific contact record, or authenticated an app that messed up their account. And it will be painful.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2010

Last Thursday, my good friends at Standing Cloud (we are investors) got a nice (and their first) write up in TechCrunch titled Standing Cloud Gives You One-Click App Installs Across Multiple Hosting Providers. All I could think of was that the Standing Cloud font was better than the old Feld Technologies font, which was in Bauhaus.

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MAY 10, 2013

My metaphor for my depressive episodes has always been that “dark clouds build on the horizon” as depression approaches. I no longer am afraid of the dark clouds, nor do I go through crazy rituals like I did in my 20s to try to keep them away. After a month of this, it gets really tough.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

User-Generated Data, Social Networking, SoLoMo, and the Cloud. Like Cloud Computing, it’s something a marketing team could get 100% behind. Here are a few from the 1990s: Internet, World Wide Web, Browser, Ecommerce (with both a capital E and a little e). Or, some from the 2000s: Web Services, SOAs, Web 2.0,

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It’s a cloud-enabled service (not cloud-based) that allows you to organize in your own space, sync across devices, and only store in their cloud if you want to. There are numerous backup options that preserve the directory structure and do NOT force me to use the cloud. Check out www.Mylio.com.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 31, 2012

. “Smart” means some combination of apps, content purchases, video streaming, video conferencing, web browsing, new remote controls, control from phones and tablets, moving content around between devices, screen sharing between devices, home “cloud”, face recognition, voice control, and gestural input.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 24, 2012

Gluecon is a phenomenal gathering of developers working in the big data, mobile, and cloud computing arenas (where the topic of the API comes up continually). Gluecon is now slightly less than a month away, and if you’re not going, you should.

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MARCH 13, 2019

The clouds are dark and heavy to the east, low and snowy to the west, and light to the south. I’ve lived here since 1995 and the amount of fear, anxiety, discussion, preparation, and public commentary is higher than I can ever recall (and yes – I’m now contributing to it.).

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2014

The IT sector is undergoing some interesting transformations as a result of the cloud, DevOps, and mobile. Computer Industry cloud IT jumpcloud survey' It’s only about five minutes long and they are sharing all of the raw data (anonymized, of course). The survey ends at the end of June. I’m interested to see what the data tells us.

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JUNE 4, 2019

There are no clouds on the horizon. But it was a rough period for a number of years, in which VC and PE swapped places for a while (VC became trendy), but are both now synchronized again in being extremely successful asset classes, while everything seems great and there are no clouds on the horizon.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

It’s fascinating to me that even in this “all cloud, all the time” era, Apple still is struggling with the dichotomy between a “computer-centric” view of the world and a “user-centric” view of the world. In contrast, following are the two Chrome ribbons on my two machines.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This year’s Defrag is covering everything from drones to robots to the cloud to APIs to big data. Security in the Cloud for the API Economy (Andy Thurai). We limit Defrag to 325 people (25 press/analysts; 300 attendees) on purpose, as the primary goal of the Defrag conversation is intimacy.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

billion and became the core of the current Salesforce Marketing Cloud. If you don’t know Scott, he was the co-founder and CEO of ExactTarget (2000) – one of the original SaaS companies. ExactTarget went public in 2012 and was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2013 for $2.5

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