Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
Convertible debt financings have become an increasingly attractive approach for seed rounds because it delays the valuation discussion, costs less from a legal standpoint, and is an easier financial instrument to “keep raising more small amounts of money” on. They close on the $750k, hire a buddy or two, buy some Macs, and get to work.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2014
In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. I could spend that time on Facebook, but at the cost of not writing. Maybe you just want to kick butt in your day job.
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Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 31, 2012
Year-over-year progress in resolution, frame rate, dynamic range and cost continues unabated. And, of course, I should say that Oblong is hiring. We’re helping to invent that future and we’re always looking for hackers, program managers, and experienced engineering leads. I want a replicator !
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 16, 2019
The budgets also have huge variability after financings, when suddenly the budget gets recast given the new money in the bank, or the constraints against hiring are removed and costs increase suddenly, even if this is only to “catch up” with the budget that was underhired to. Or, the opposite. Most are not.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 21, 2010
When I talked to a headhunter recently, in the midst of the worst market for legal jobs ever, she told me that the one employer who was always hiring people with experience in patents was IV. So, anecdotally, they hire a lot of lawyers. How many great companies have been sunk by the costs of patent litigation?
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
Use the root cause analysis to lower your costs and increase your revenue so that you beat your plan. Or in 2015 you had raised a bunch of money, hired a lot of people, and assumed it was all going to just work out according to the spreadsheet model you used to build headcount and revenue expectations based on the headcount. .”
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