Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 4, 2011

Several years ago, my partners and I started going to CES together. 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. Jason and Ryan had being going for a while. Ok – that’s a good day.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 31, 2012

My partners and I spend time at CES each year along with a bunch of the founders from different companies we’ve invested in due to our human computer interaction theme. Others say that science fact is the science fiction of the past.

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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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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

Blackstone’s partners, though, had decidedly mixed feelings about the bonanza. There are no clouds on the horizon. It was indeed private equity’s moment. That year private equity firms initiated one of every five mergers globally and even more, 29 percent, in the United States. They began to worry that the market was overheating.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2012

500+ people obsessed about mobile app development, cloud computing, and big data are going to be there this year. I’ll be there both days as will be my partners at Foundry Group. The Glue Conference is happening again this year on May 23rd and May 24th in Boulder, CO. Did I say FREE? Did I say the demo pods were free?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 20, 2012

We (my partners and I at Foundry Group and David Cohen at TechStars) are helping them get enough initial sponsors to bring on a full time writer in the Boulder / Denver area. The sign up for the Bring Xconomy to Boulder/Denver page has all the details.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2014

My partner Ryan McIntyre says that any company doing business on the web should be practicing some form of DevOps. One of the biggest trends in tech today is DevOps, which is closely tied into Agile, Cloud, PaaS, and SDN.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Responsibilities include the following: Oversee SaaS SMB lead generation and marketing programs for backup, cloud sync, collaboration and large file transfer products. Memeo’s suite of software products and cloud-based services helps users to “Simplify Your Digital Life.&# Create a lead nurturing and lead scoring strategy.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Alcatel-Lucent signed on to be the Community Underwriter and Partner Sponsor of Gluecon 2011. That connective tissue can be called a lot of things: service oriented architecture, web services, APIs, cloud computing, etc. His goal is simple: make Glue the gathering place for developers in the API/Cloud space.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Recently my partners and I spent some time discussing three of our recent investments – Spanning , Yesware , and Attachments – which are each applications built on top of Google Apps. Spanning is all about cloud backup. Their mindshare for cloud based business apps far outpaces Microsoft.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And our vertical and powered by programs – Cloud (in San Antonio with Rackspace), Microsoft Accelerator (in Seattle with Microsoft) and Nike Accelerator (in Portland with Nike) were also started from scratch.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2011

My first business partner, Dave Jilk (now the Standing Cloud founder / CEO), gave it to me as a birthday gift last week. I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull for the first time in 1975 when I was about 10 years old. I’ve read it several times over the last 35 years, but probably hadn’t read it in over a decade.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2012

But as I sit here, I’m surrounded by a lot of grey, and it’s not just the clouds outside that are the remnants of the storm. I’ve reached out to most of my friends in New York to check in on them. They are all doing fine even though a few were hit hard and are now effectively homeless as lower Manhattan gets cleaned up.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2010

We went on to fund Cloud Engines (the company that makes the Pogoplug) which just closed a new $15 million financing that includes Softbank and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners. Oh – and they have had a totally kick ass year.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 2, 2014

Since then, Gluecon has transformed into a conference of what I assert is the deepest technical content available around the topics of cloud computing, mobile, big data, APIs and DevOps. One of the things I love best about my Foundry Group partners is that they each have strong opinions.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2015

Shortly after that conversation (either the same day or the following day) my partners at Foundry Group (Seth, Jason, and Ryan) all committed to invest in the fund. We were starting to experiment with corporate partners through programs like Techstars Cloud, which we did with Rackspace. Mark asked me if we could go for a walk.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 17, 2015

My partners and I have a massive founder crush on Eric Gundersen, the CEO of Mapbox. My partner Ryan McIntyre was introduced to Eric by another CEO we’ve backed, Zack Rosen of Pantheon. He started with an algorithm that made clouds go away. Let’s start with the simple stuff. By this point my jaw was on the floor.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2020

One of the best was from Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin of SK Ventures (one of our Partner Fund investments ). More things will go in the cloud; more things will be virtualized; more things will happen at the edge; more buying, selling, and entertaining will happen online: and so on. First published May 15, 2020.). Greetings-.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2014

We were investors in Postini and my partner Ryan sat on the board. The awesomeness of Postini was that it was the first cloud-based email anti-spam solution. It transformed my life – with one minor change of an MX record some time in 2002 all the spam in my inbox disappeared. Or even my server.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As did my first business partner Dave Jilk, who is now CEO of Standing Cloud. But Feld Technologies wasn’t the first company I started at 351 Massachusetts Avenue – that honor went to Martingale Software and my partners Dave Jilk, Sameer Gandhi, Andy Mina, and Jeff Pierick.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

But before Foundry Group, my partners and I were involved in many seed investments, both at Mobius Venture Capital. I have three partners and all of us are involved in all of our investments. Before I start talking about good and bad VC seed strategies, I thought I’d explain mine. Million Round From Google Ventures.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2011

My Foundry Group partners and I have been coming to CES together for the past few years. We’ve discovered new investments at CES (such as Cloud Engines – for the long version of the discovery process check out my dad’s post on it titled I Love My Popoplug!!

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Standing Cloud , which makes it easy to deploy and run apps in the cloud, recently closed a $ 3m financing led by Rich Levandov at Avalon Ventures. Rich has spend a lot of time in the clouds lately, including his investment in Cloudkick which was acquired yesterday by Rackspace.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

My partner Ryan and his wife Katherine joined me for dinner Saturday night (Katherine ran the marathon also) and we had a nice Italian dinner at a local place called Giorgio on Pine. Cool but not cold, almost no wind, and a light cloud cover so it was light but not sunny. Nonetheless I just felt flat and listless.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

My partner Dave Jilk, also a full-stack programmer (and a much better one than me), helped immensely as he completely grokked relational database theory. Over the course of a few days, we managed to cut the run time down to under ten minutes.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

This is a draft post by Dave Jilk, a long time friend, business partner, and CEO of Standing Cloud. If the cloud provider has a problem, Standing Cloud has your backups and can re-deploy the application in another location. While the words are his, I agree 100% with everything he is saying here.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 17, 2010

of Cloud Solutions, Cisco. The Apache Cloud Stack (Hadoop, HBase, Zookeeper, etc). The Apache Cloud Stack (Hadoop, HBase, Zookeeper, etc). App PaaS vs. Enhanced Cloud System Infrastructure. I’ll be there for the whole shebang, along with my partners at Foundry Group. Chris Hoff, Dir. Ryan Sarver, Dir.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 4, 2010

For each company we invest in, we try to have a board meeting with all four Foundry Group partners attending at least once a year. Tags: My Investments cloud pogoplug printing. Um – yeah – that’s obvious – especially for someone who doesn’t know what an IP address is. The thing is magic.

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