Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2013

We’ve especially been interested in companies that make software developers and DevOps lives better. 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.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

I’ve become a big advocate of true Agile development (partly because of my experience with Rally Software – the leader in Agile software development environments) and – more recently – the notion of trying to get to continuous deployment which has been popularized by Eric Ries. Designate one person in charge of managing the hackathon.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

People who develop broad skills also tend to develop a good mental model of how different layers of a system behave. The folks from the management consulting firm did all the design and analysis; we wrote the code to work with the massive databases that supported this.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

Their suggestion was to write a series of posts that follows the development of an imaginary startup as the company navigates various events, focusing on how each event will impact not only the P&L, but also the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement.

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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 3, 2010

And, if you are a software developer using Lean or Agile methodologies, take a look at Rally and AgileZen. 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. Why did you start AgileZen ?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2017

This morning’s launch of Maps for Unity brings the full stack of location tools to the world’s most popular game development platform and shows that location and maps are the new building blocks for AR and VR games. Bringing location and maps to game developers is a big deal. We think the maps look amazing and are insanely fast.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2010

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. 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…).

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2021

The financial system in the US, and in other developed countries, is a rigged system and has been for a very long time. 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. Only big institutions can get into hot IPOs.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 2, 2018

The company is making progress at a relentless pace and have been shipping a small number of Misty I’s to very early developers in controlled environments. We are doing a crowdfunding campaign because we are concentrating on launching a journey with a community of software developers, makers, and robot dreamers.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2019

Now, match that with an epic adventure of creating future realities, throw in rockstar mentors, entrepreneurship skills training, tech, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and you have Dream Tank. Each program is designed for kids to choose a social or environmental issue they want to address.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

The team at FC has structurally designed their firm around alignment to founders. Their second fund is tracking ahead of the first at the same point in development. In general, these investments were rarely competitive at the time of their first financing. Needless to say, we had many reasons to hope to be part of their third fund.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2014

Yet despite Google’s technology proof point, and the development work now being done by many vehicle manufacturers, most people still imagine self-driving vehicles to be a long way off. The barrier to flying cars is not in the design or building of a viable airframe. Dude, Where’s my Flying Car?

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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 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

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The event fostered confidence that buoyed the team through enough contest wins to develop a prototype. The founders loved where they lived and put together a support team of shoe experts and designers in Boston, France, and Portugal. When you think of Alaska, you probably do not think of it as a popular location for producing shoes.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2011

If you fit the description, like playing with robots, want free beer all day, and live in Boulder, email them a note with a resume. - Game Designer : Are you passionate about gaming and have a deep understanding of game design and game mechanics?

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 11, 2012

We’re a 11+ year old business that specializes in creating marketing websites and user interface design for web apps and mobile apps. Run meetings and present / defend your strategy and design work. Create high-end design work suitable for both marketing websites as well as web and mobile applications.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 9, 2014

They are hunting for a new amazing UI/UX developer. But – to show how much they want someone, they’ve designed an incredibly hideous new look for their site. One of the super crazy fun companies we are investors in is Betabrand. At this point, half of my new wardrobe comes from them.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2012

500+ people obsessed about mobile app development, cloud computing, and big data are going to be there this year. If you are an early-sage startup (pre-funding or seed funding) in mobile app development, cloud computing or big data, this is a great way to get some face time with us. Did I say FREE?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s still necessary to imagine the future development (although the trends can help inspire ideas). At my panel on the future of artificial intelligence at SXSW, one of my co-panelists objected to the notion that exponential growth in computer power was, by itself, all that was necessary to develop human level intelligence in computers.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 26, 2010

The other difficult person to find is a UX design guru. Now, there are a number of strong web design and development firms in Boulder, such as our friends at Slice of Lime , and we use them regularly throughout our portfolio. They are also plenty of strong UI developers. If you are this person, email me right now.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2020

Automattic (WordPress) is my favorite, as it’s been organized that way by design from inception. I continue to strongly believe that place matters for the development of sustainable startup communities. Zapier is another one that has gotten a lot of press lately around its distributed workforce approach.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Looking Glass , a Brooklyn-based company we recently led the Series A investment in, just released HoloPlayer One, the world’s first interactive lightfield development kit. This is a new interface that lets groups of people see and interact with floating 3D scenes without VR or AR headgear.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 16, 2014

87,000 developers. 39,000 designers. It’s 28 slides and when I looked at it early today it blew my mind. Here are a few key metrics: 310,000 alumni and volunteers. 4,500 mentors. 132,000 businesses. 501 cities. 126 countries. Go look at the UP Global 2013 Impact Report.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 7, 2014

Giving this community, these students, and these resources a space to live is the next step to developing more viable startups at CU. This free, all day event is designed to lower the barriers of creating a strong entrepreneurial community at the university. Here are the details of the space.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 25, 2015

This is exacerbated by design constraints developed for the city in the 1960s and 1970s. ” This project resulted in us bringing Becky Boone , last year’s fellow with the City of Denver, to Boulder to spend seven months working with the city. Today, Boulder has a population of about 100,000 and about 100,000 jobs.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

It gets to the heart of how startup communities are developed and I’d love to have you join me at it. Startup Phenomenon is designed to bring attention to these communities, from small towns to large cities, as we explore how this startup phenomenon works. in terms of tech-startup density.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 13, 2010

The tech community helped the non-profits on tech issues ranging from web design to social media help, database support to graphic design, and everything in-between. They follow and include several that Amy and I support philanthropically: Colorado Nonprofit Development Center presented by Kamela Maktabi.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 1, 2012

The Design of Business - Roger Martin: Ugh. Given the subtitle (“Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage”) I was hoping for something amazing and magical about design and how important it is in the context of creating great companies. Ok – whatever.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Specifically, their developers got the attention of All for Good , a Silicon Valley-based project that managed to make data-sharing agreements with all the major volunteer data providers in the US – not an easy feat. Of note to developers, v2.0

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2011

I have helped develop a highly effective treatment for cancer – designing custom electronics for true 3D radiotherapy. I have helped further our understanding of the physical universe by developing state of art data acquisition systems for high-energy physics experiments. years by The Walt Disney Company. Follow your heart.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Let’s consider how Steve Wozniak developed the Apple computer, which revolutionized the computer industry from a garage. The bay area was indeed the place to be at the time with the Homebrew Computer Club and marketing genius Steve Jobs who convinced Wozniak to sell his design, laying the foundation for Apple. Why is this important?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 17, 2015

He then launched into a custom map design tool which Foursquare had just used to switch out Google Maps. ” Even better, Eric and team had been at it for several years bootstrapping development and had just decided to raise their first outside capital. He started with an algorithm that made clouds go away. So we invested.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 15, 2019

In 2018, New Story partnered with ICON and developed the first 3D printer of homes designed to serve the families who need shelter most. This is a breakthrough technology that will cut costs, increase speed, and improve home design quality.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. They’ve released the Polymaps source code on GitHub so any developer can quickly see how the API is used, play around with real production code, and modify the base examples for their own use. Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ?

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