Feld Thoughts

MARCH 16, 2010

As you may have noticed, I’ve got a new blog design, as do my partners Jason Mendelson and Ryan McIntyre. Every year or so I get bored of my blog design and we go through a nice little upgrade. Our good friends at Slice of Lime do all the design work and Ross (our IT guy) wrangles everything. Web Design Mistakes.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Slice of Lime has done web strategy, design, and development work for many of the companies we’ve invested in over the years including BigDoor , BrightLeaf , and Orbotix (new site launching soon) as well as our own Foundry Group website. This year, Slice of Lime is celebrating 10 years of being in business.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 20, 2013

From an outsider’s perspective, it’s stunning how much damage one bad component on a PCB board can do to a company’s bottom line, or how different industrial design is from software design, or even how the brains of a software person and a hardware person collide in bizarre ways.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2013

R/GA creates advertising and marketing products based in technology and design and has earned countless accolades over the years, including Advertising Age’s “Digital A-List” and “Agencies of the Decade.” They are the force behind the opening title sequence for 1978?

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

In addition, core design decisions in the bitcoin spec make bitcoin a pretty terrible store of value and unit of account, which are two things we expect from a currency. The rate at which new bitcoins are mined is designed to decrease over time. The original bitcoin paper focuses heavily on this aspect of the system design.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 10, 2011

In conjunction with their financing, Avalon just rolled out a new website designed by Slice of Lime. We love their work (they designed our Foundry Group website ) and they’ve done other VC firms sites, including Bridgescale.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 18, 2019

If you have deep technical, designer, or application development skills and are interested in a civic tour of duty helping improve the software that Coloradian’s use to interact with our state government, go apply to help out.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Every time a marketing team works with a web design firm, there is the usual painful and broken handoff between the outside agency and the technical operations of the client which culminate on launch day. If you know anyone who designs or builds websites for a living they should know about it.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2017

” The design in how we find companies, perform diligence and make investments have unintentional side effects that cut many people out. I’ve been thinking about ways to design startup communities to be more inclusive.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2017

“All I’ve done is move arbitrary designations of wealth from one column to another, wasting my life chasing this unattainable hallucination of wealth. . “I’ve spent 25 years in this room yelling ‘Buy, buy! Sell, sell!’ ’ and for what?” ” longtime trader Michael Palermo said.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 9, 2013

Every startup is going to have a company culture, by design or by default, so you might as well design yours with values that attract and keep the best possible talent. Gnip assigned strategy, money, and resources to their recruiting efforts, and factored diversity into evaluations of cultural fit.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2013

JumpCloud is an agent-based SaaS tool designed for both cloud and physical Linux servers which provides full user management across all your users, all your servers, and all your clouds. Watch David Campbell, one of JumpCloud’s other co-founders, explain JumpCloud at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 13, 2017

It could have done a better job encouraging creative design of new buildings that better fit their surroundings. There is no question it has undergone a growth spurt since the last recession, in part based on pent-up demand from that slowdown.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

Designate one person in charge of managing the hackathon. And, rather than have it be an “engineering thing”, you can (and should) make it a full company thing. Here’s how: Pick a date during the quarter for the hackathon. Monday’s and Thursday’s are best.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2014

While design is still front and center for many developers and entrepreneurs, I’ve gotten tired of the overwhelming UIs, confusing UXs, and immense complexity under the hood. We tossed everything out and rebuilt everything – the infrastructure, the blog, and the design, from the ground up. Writing blog design feld'

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2020

New 3D designs for the crisis, ranging from conversion kits to face shields to masks to respirator parts, are appearing daily. I thought this was especially true in prototyping, experimentation, and emergency situations. Given the Covid-19 pandemic, my sense is that every hospital in the world should have multiple 3D printers.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 2, 2020

3 Free months of Simple Habit : Sign up to access meditations, sleep content, and movement exercises, designed to help you care for your mind — all free for 3 months. If you are a therapist and you are open to donating up to five hours of free therapy, please sign up on the Therapist Volunteer page.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 2, 2020

And 3D modeling and 3D design are becoming so standard that it won’t be long before the “3D” distinction fades away (just as we no longer have to say we work on computers with “color graphical user interfaces”).

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2019

Dream Tank is a summer program designed for kids and teens who want to launch and implement their ideas to address real-world challenges. Each program is designed for kids to choose a social or environmental issue they want to address. She started a movement where 1263 strikes happened in 107 countries last Friday, May 24.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The book is titled Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire and the Internet of Things. On Saturday, I read the final draft of a magnificent book by David Rose. I’ve known David for many years.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2014

While some of that came through, “The Company” (a thinly designed version of Microsoft) was too over the top ridiculous and many of the satirical moments fell flat for me. From the review it felt like a current day version of Microserfs: A Novel or JPod , two tech culture masterpieces by Douglas Coupland. It was ok, but not great.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2017

Not only can designers change the look and feel of the map, they can now access open APIs for searching local places like coffee shops and stores, elevation data and satellite imagery, and turn-by-turn directions to guide people through the game and the real world at the same time.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 5, 2019

Then, you get to designate a teacher – any teacher – who you’d like to give a third RVR to. As part of the Sphero RVR Kickstarter campaign, Amy and I have decided to give away up to 200 RVRs as part of a new tier called the 2 RVRs for you + 1 for a Teacher tier. If you buy this tier, you get two RVRs.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2021

Many of these rules are designed to protect “widows and orphans” but all they really do is make the rich richer and keep those without money out of the game. The financial system in the US, and in other developed countries, is a rigged system and has been for a very long time. Only big institutions can get into hot IPOs.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Focused on bringing together science, technology, medicine, spirituality, philosophy, and design to revolutionize how humanity experiences all forms of depression. Come join us for some of these, or any of the other hundreds of events at Denver Startup Week 2020. The post Denver Startup Week 2020 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 3, 2021

The last few days, we’ve talked about octopuses, the Nature Conservancy, a Zen garden we are designing, tents, the dog next door who barks hello to us, winter turning into spring, summer adventures, estate planning, friends who just had a great exit for their business, and knitting. That’s the four-minute part.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

Dot-to-Dot relies entirely on earned income and employs a unique cause-related marketing strategy designed to establish a successful position in the competitive children’s lit market. Kids from eight countries, including Cambodia, Eastern DR Congo, and Afghanistan, have participated in Dot-to-Dot projects.

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MARCH 18, 2013

Last October, when I put out a call for A Design HackStar for Startup Revolution I got about 50 responses. Cole is a 25 year old entrepreneur, designer, and developer who’s design services company, ijitsu Design , was recently acquired by TundraLogic, Inc. Around ten were great; one was awesome.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 18, 2019

Seth Levine wrote a five post series: Designing the Ideal Board Meeting. Designing the Ideal Board Meeting Before the Meeting Your Board Package The Board Meeting Board Conflict. Each post is worth reading from beginning to end carefully. Mark Suster: How to Be a Good Board Member. Fred Wilson: How To Be A Good Board Member.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2010

We built AgileZen because we felt like there were a lot of tools on the market that served large organizations, but many of them weren’t designed to support the needs of small teams and startups. And, if you are a software developer using Lean or Agile methodologies, take a look at Rally and AgileZen. Why did you start AgileZen ?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 24, 2018

It’s a technology at the Apple II stage, designed for the creators and hackers of the world — specifically 3D creators in this case. The Looking Glass is technically a lightfield and volumetric display hybrid, but that’s pretty nerdy-sounding. I like to just call it a holographic display.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2019

It’s a fabulous integration of story, illustration, and design on the web. David then funded a project for Eliot to turn it into an “internet public art project.” ” Eliot describes how they made True Blue. Independent of the beauty of the project, the story is a critically important one for today’s society.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Commenting on the partnership, Derek White, Barclays Chief Design Officer, said “We’ve identified technology as a key driver of innovation and it will be paramount to Barclays achieving our ambition of becoming the ‘Go-To’ bank. ” Applications are open now at [link] and will close March 21, 2014.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

The team at FC has structurally designed their firm around alignment to founders. In general, these investments were rarely competitive at the time of their first financing. Founder friendly” is an overused term, but there is a big difference between marketing this as a concept and living it every day.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2010

Initially I didn’t see myself as a good fit, but decided to help out in any way I could (process development, statistical analysis, survey design, business plan, etc…). About this time a friend and past co-worker approached me asking if I would be willing to work and eventually lead with him on a software development venture.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Havenly – Online interior design. We think everything listed below is awesome, so we’ve tried to keep the hyperbole out of the descriptions so you can quickly scan for anything you are interested in. Apparel, Lifestyle, and Sports. Betabrand – Business casual clothing. Inkbox – Temporary tattoos.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 31, 2012

Besides the television, the other interesting locus of new UI design at CES is the car dashboard. They’ve taken an open-hand/grab approach that’s broadly similar to Samsung’s, but with good use of the Z dimension in addition. The selection transitions, along with push, pull and inertial side-scroll, feel solid.

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