Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 26, 2016

As I was rolling this around in my early morning brain, the thought occurred to me that if you are a CEO and a people pleaser, you should spend more time with your customers. There are a plenty of CEOs who spend a lot of time with customers, but I’ve never met a CEO who spent too much time with her customers.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Following is his advice to early stage entrepreneurs for creating structure in their company. So, I’ll explain my reasoning through the story of ASC, a fictitious company that has a combination of characteristics I’ve seen across a number of early stage companies. Soundbites from potential customers are encouraging.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2019

Amos decided to write Sell More Faster because he realized building early-stage sales organizations had become intuitive to him based on a simple but effective process he created back at Business.com called W3. This process stood for WHO is your customer, WHAT are they buying, and WHY do they buy it.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Feeling overwhelmed, Dick emailed his friend Josh, the CEO of an early-stage startup in Boulder, to see how they figured out all of this stuff. While John was trying to be helpful, his advice missed the mark because he didn’t have a lot of experience at the early stages.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2012

As part of the conference, Eric provides 15 early-stage startups with FREE exhibit space. This is the awesome conference that Eric Norlin puts on around our Glue theme. 500+ people obsessed about mobile app development, cloud computing, and big data are going to be there this year. Did I say FREE?

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2018

And before I knew it, we were leading a second investment round to help the team deliver to tens of thousands of customers. As with many early stage hardware companies, Glowforge faced their fair share of setbacks during beta and pre-production, but the team’s obsession with delivering the product they promised has paid off.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 12, 2011

For an early stage company that is deep in iterating on product features with its customers, this is a huge advantage. While Google has been building this all very quietly, I’m extremely impressed with what they’ve done.

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