Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 15, 2012

We had a similar conversation when Startup America Partnership was formed in 2011. I’m glad that “Startup” is making its way into the style guides of the old media world. Today I noticed a post from Andrew Hyde titled Washington Post Style Guide Now Includes “Startup” as A Word.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 18, 2016

Or at least on the blogs and in the mainstream media. And I know it’s hard, because it’s the distraction that creeps into every conversation. It’s kind of amazing to me how two shitty weeks in the public markets can impact how every one thinks and talks about things. Concentrate on things that matter.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 27, 2012

I’ve also observed many times (and experienced) the steep curve from obscurity to hero to goat to re-emergent hero that the media loves to play out over and over again. And my day is filled with random interactions – many of them interesting and stimulating – but plenty of them hostile, negative, and troll-like.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 16, 2017

I met Dave a few times in the last 1990s when he was running LAUNCH Media (we were investors via SOFTBANK) but didn’t stay in touch after Yahoo! While these conversations are hard, I learn a little with each one. acquired LAUNCH. However, many of my Bay Area friends were close to Dave and viewed him reverently.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

This is a bidirectional experiment for us – we are helping Sympoz launch their new set of programs for startups and entrepreneurs while continuing to experiment with new forms of media around education on a topic we know well. My class, How To Light a Spark & Set Your Startup on Fire , is FREE for a limited time.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2017

One of these activities is a social media campaign to publicly recognize a number of individuals who their campus has identified as a #DepressionHero. After the dinner, Dave and I had a brief conversation where he told me more about his involvement in the UCLA Grand Challenge on Depression.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The media is aggressively negative presumably in the quest for getting readership. Money becomes a central topic of many conversations. Whenever we are in the upswing of an entrepreneurial cycle, like we are right now, I start seeing all kinds of weird stuff appear. Random people, who get notoriety for themselves, blow up.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

If a media company wants all of their largest brands to provide ebooks, each brand can build its own community and stay connected around ebooks. If an e-retailer wants to sell ebooks alongside any of their products on their own site, they can now do so with Bookshout.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 8, 2014

Addressing the actions of the NSA that should cause outrage, or at least a deep, thoughtful conversation about what the appropriate boundaries for government surveillance in the United States.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

If a media company wants all of their largest brands to provide ebooks, each brand can build its own community and stay connected around ebooks. If an e-retailer wants to sell ebooks alongside any of their products on their own site, they can now do so with Bookshout.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2011

I’ve had a number of interesting conversions about the intersection of the virtual and the physical world since I wrote the post Did Someone Ruin Foursquare For Me Yesterday? Toss in Quora, Stack Exchange, Disqus, and a few other high signal services into the mix and my approach has broken down.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2016

You can also follow updates from @whitehouse on Twitter, as well as the NCWIT social media channels. NCWIT will partner with Intel to host a convening on Native American students’ and tribes’ access to technology careers, and will host with Google a conversation on the image of African-American girls in technology.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2016

Subsequently, Amy and I went on a binge the past few days of other media around this, including the movie Too Big To Fail (which is really about what happened in the fall of 2008) and Inside Job (which covers a broader time range, but focused on 2005 – 2008). The climax happens in 2008 and the denouement continues on until 2011.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

I subsequently had a short conversation in the evening where someone asked me about what I thought the mean was across our investments on a particular metric; I responded that the mean was meaningless – we should be using the median (which I then gave the person asking the question.).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I will never involve myself in conversations that are hurtful to others. I will not be on social media of any kind. When talking face to face with another person I will not be on my phone. I will not use this technology to lie, fool, or deceive another human being.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

Somehow – perhaps because of the pernicious influence of large media companies on the government’s activities – rights to your digital data are taking a backseat to any and all attempts to enforce the copyright laws. Can you afford to be without your CRM or ERP system for weeks? This would have to be tested in advance.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2011

While reading the book, you feel like you are a having a long conversation with Gary, which of course, you sort of are. Books like The Thank You Economy are easy to read – they are full of great examples knitted together with Gary’s thoughts and ideas, written in a very accessible way. Gary – congrats on crushing it again.

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