Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Gnip provides access to over 100 other social media feeds but has spent a lot of time in the past six months optimizing and tuning their system for Twitter-related data. If you haven't look at Gnip recently or didn't know they exist, sign up for a free trial and take their social media API for a spin for 72 hours.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

One of them, Oblong , as been working on spacial computing since John Underkoffler’s early research in the 1990′s at the MIT Media Lab. The demo is iconic and amazing, but it takes too long and is too abstract for their corporate customers buying Oblong’s Mezzanine product.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess’ publisher B. It’s an artifact of the publishing business that existed before “earned media” – blog posts, reviews, etc. American humorist Gelett Burgess’s short 1906 book Are You a Bromide?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2011

Gnip is currently delivering over a half billion social activities per day to almost all the top social media monitoring firms. On Monday, the company announced a much anticipated product improvement that allows existing customers to open multiple connections to Premium Twitter Feeds on their Gnip data collectors.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

However, it’s driven by an obsessive focus on the customer and the product, rather than a “marketing budget&# or “marketing initiative.&# And phrases like “social media marketing&# and “marketing spend&# rarely surface in discussions, and when they do I vomit a little in my mouth.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The media is aggressively negative presumably in the quest for getting readership. They focus relentlessly on their products, their customers, and their people. Whenever we are in the upswing of an entrepreneurial cycle, like we are right now, I start seeing all kinds of weird stuff appear. Entitlement behavior runs rampant.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Toss in a bunch of networking, lots of stimulating discussion, and breakouts that cover everything from APIs to shifting to the Cloud to Social Media Analytics to the Social Customer and it’s shaping up to be dynamite. And that’s just some of the keynotes.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2010

Triggit is one of a group of recently emerging companies called demand side platforms (DSP ) that provide technology to advertisers enabling them to buy display media across millions of websites.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Of course you did – it’s all the mainstream media could seem to write about last week after the now infamous twitter tweet about it. But the public data is still out there for everyone – especially your competitors and customers to see. Did you know Twitter is going public? Twitter (@twitter) September 12, 2013.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

While plenty of tech bloggers were tossing around the word “bubble&# , I also noticed it among the mainstream media. Instead, spend your energy creating amazing products, thrilling your customers, building an awesome organization, and living your life. Always remember that one day you too will be dead.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

And the PTO, headed now by the pro-patent former head of IP at IBM, David Kappos, will continue to treat patentees like “customers” and pump economy-destroying patents out as it if were the Fed printing money. Courts may or may not understand the negatives of the patent system, but they’re the last place we should look for positive change.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It’s almost entirely tech related, as I stay away from mainstream media during the week (e.g. Let’s start with Tim Cook’s remarkable Message to Our Customers around the San Bernardino case and the need for encryption. However, they all shared one thing in common – the message and thoughts were clear.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

I sought to mimic his propensity to leverage social media. Our biggest customers are the wireless carriers and big content/Internet companies. It took me several more years to understand Brad, and during this time I developed a deep appreciation of his passion for entrepreneurism. “How can Brad help?”, ”, I pondered.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2011

In particular, some media and naysayers are emphasizing the wrong lessons to be learned from this incident. That doesn’t affect the quality of their cloud product directly, but given that they have lured customers with the claim that they do use it, this does impact our trust in relation to their marketing integrity.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Here’s why: Except for early adopters of technology and diehard environmental customers, most people aren’t buying a fuel type, they’re buying transportation. The Nissan Leaf battery pack alone costs about $18,000 (though government incentives bring down the overall vehicle cost to the customer).

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2012

And, if you look at some of the successful companies we have had from our previous investing at Mobius Venture Capital, you’d see market leaders like Postini, Return Path, FeedBurner, Rally, Stratify, NewsGator, and Sling Media. Change the customer, change a product focus, change the distribution channel, or change the partner dynamic.

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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?

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