Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

They were bashing each other over the head in a non-existent market as the Internet bubble began collapsing. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. I’ve worked with Matt for over 20 years and have experienced many ups and downs.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. Today, as CTO and co-founder of Artillery, I’m split between infinite freedom and infinite responsibility.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Every day, Monetate ( www.monetate.com ) helps major online retailers like QVC, Casual Male, and Urban Outfitters, to make the most of their online marketing dollars. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

Grow Your Business By Growing Your People written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Whitney Johnson. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Whitney Johnson. More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network. Disrupt Yourself Podcast.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

How To Create A Culture Of Learning And Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Whitney Johnson. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Whitney Johnson. Take The Marketing Assessment. So you're putting together that portfolio. Like this show?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. If you can just be friendly enough and get your users to party with you, the rest is really easy.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. First check to seed?—?congrats Rebel exit to Salesforce.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Online Resources and Newsletters: Bostinno : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Active angels invest in a diversified portfolio of 10 or more companies, usually spreading their investments over a few years. In the end, such a portfolio might yield the angel investor a total return on investment of 25% per year or more. A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2010

A couple of months ago, we created the Key Hire Wire e-mail newsletter, which highlighted the best opportunities in our portfolio. They're going through their personal networks and around the typical hiring channels—especially since environment and people matter so much when you join a company. That's the way a lot of this stuff goes.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. The Data Warehouse market is typically estimated at $30 B in annual revenue and the big data components, where the largest need for performance gains resides, is growing at double digit rates. By now, a few trends are emerging.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Mass TLC Unconference : Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Online Resources and Newsletters: Bostinno : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Mass High Tech.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

People waiting to be someone else’s technical co-founders don’t exist, and they’re certainly not on “founder dating” sites or hanging out at networking events. They tend to have a multitude of side projects, Github portfolios and hacking workshops on the go at once. Print Save to Instapaper. Editors Pick.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

The overwhelming favorites to dominate the race to become the Information Super Highway were competing proprietary technologies from industry powerhouses such as Oracle and Microsoft, which captured the imagination of the business press. The implications of the propriety vision were not good. 56% of users are age 24 and under, 80% under 35.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

CEOs, by contrast, recognize that markets, circumstances and luck factor into the equation in a big way. When you start a company, the decision about which market to pursue comes early and lasts a very long time. If you start out building automobiles, you won’t likely pivot over to become an online advertising network.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills. However, valuing the intangibles of time saving, expertise, network, etc.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

The first time I heard the term Red Shift was from my portfolio company, Greenplum. Greenplum has used red shift to characterize the nature of the existing database market where exponential data growth driven by network computing and internet applications have outstripped the capacity of existing mainstream vendors.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Smedley was doing everything he could to discourage folks entering the market.”. “The correlation is as follows: It wasn’t a horrible business, they made bank, and it wasn’t near technically impossible. In fact, it was only getting /a lot/ easier and lest costly.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. Many good freelancers are very busy right now and can be found through networking with friends or linked in. And probably youre no marketing expert and salesman, either.

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