Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The company is looking to build its core development team here in Boulder. If you are a great mobile developer (iOS or Android) and want to help start and build a great company, email me and I will connect you to the team.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Finance – Chief Financial Officer – Jack Sinclair People – Chief People Officer – Cathy Hawley Marketing – Chief Marketing Officer – Nick Badgett and Holly Ennerking Sales – Chief Revenue Officer – Anita Absey Business Development – Chief Business Development Officer – Ken Takahashi Customers (..)

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2010

If you are a senior Java developer anywhere in the US and are interested in moving to Boulder, I’d like to hear from you. There was a nice article in Bloomberg Businessweek last week about Why Boulder Is America’s Best Town for Startups.

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APRIL 24, 2014

NCWIT ayah bdeir coding girls littlebits software development space' AppInventor. The New Boston. The post Resources for Girls Learning to Code appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Over the years, I’ve come to believe with moral certainty that everyone needs DevOps now, especially software startups where the successful execution of Development and IT Operations preordain success or failure. Enter the Developers. In that moment, I saw the light. manageability, scalability, reliability, security, and so forth).

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 27, 2013

Join the Application Developers Alliance at a Boulder Developer Patent Summit August 28 at 6 PM at FUSE Coworking. Conferences application developers alliance Boulder events patent trolls Patents' DATE: August 28th | FREE | 6pm. LOCATION: The Riverside (FUSE Coworking) | 1724 Broadway | Boulder, CO 80302. Register today !

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

They, and others, continue to aggressively search for great software developers to join their team – when I look at the Foundry Group Jobs page I see well over 100 open positions for developers across our portfolio and I know this list undercounts since not all of the companies we are investors in are listed there.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2019

The multitude of holographic apps being created by developers around the world, like holographic CT scan viewers and interactive software robots and volumetric video players for the Looking Glass, haven’t really been deployable outside of a highly technical crowd that already owns powerful computers.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Standing Cloud , one of the Boulder-based companies we seed funded last year, is hiring a Java Developer. They are a provider of software and services that facilitate deployment and management of application software, using on-demand cloud servers from providers such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, and others.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. Dave had been spending most of his time managing the part-time developers, who were primarily working on future products, instead of billing hours to clients.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2016

To address this, Heather Terenzio, founder and CEO of Boulder’s Techtonic Group, developed Techtonic Academy , an innovative solution in the form of Colorado’s first federally recognized by the Department of Labor technology apprenticeship. After about six months, graduating apprentices are qualified junior developers, ready to work.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 19, 2014

Professional website developers need much more than that — they have to collaborate in teams, work with version control, deploy changes, and as the company grows scale their site and make sure it is running fast 24×7 — aka website DevOps. All of their technology is now available to WordPress developers.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. What do you think?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 14, 2011

They directly address the problem Fred describes which every software developer knows is a pain in the ass, uninteresting, hard to do well, but needs to be done right. My message to all web developers – if you are serious about what you are doing, focus on your app.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. I developed a simple mantra: “The only person I have to cheat is myself.” The Only Person I Have to Cheat is Myself.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2023

My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. GlueCon will occur for the thirteenth time, on May 24th-25th, in Broomfield, Colorado. You can view the full agenda here.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 7, 2011

Martin Fowler, a software developer, had a well thought out article titled SoftwarePatent. If the current administration wants to improve job creation, change patent law and watch jobs among small technology companies develop instantly.&#. The word “patent&# shows up in 20 of the Techmeme River articles from the last week.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

One of them used to be a lead developer at [insert hot consumer tech company here]. Early customer development talks are going great which keeps the team really excited. At month six, one of the early hires leaves, a developer who turns out wasn’t a good fit. Three months in, the burn is now at $70k/month.

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MAY 24, 2021

Six months ago I wrote When The Big Companies Show Up about Sony releasing their first holographic display and what I thought about that development, given my role as an investor via Foundry and board member in the 40-person purveyor of fine holographic interfaces in Brooklyn called Looking Glass.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

From March to May 2012, the companies will co-locate in space provided by Microsoft in Seattle where they will be provisioned Xbox development kits, Kinect hardware, the Kinect for Windows SDK and space for testing and developing Kinect based applications. Eric Norlin, Organizer, Blur, Defrag, and Glue conferences.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Finance – Chief Financial Officer – Jack Sinclair People – Chief People Officer – Cathy Hawley Marketing – Chief Marketing Officer – Nick Badgett and Holly Ennerking Sales – Chief Revenue Officer – Anita Absey Business Development – Chief Business Development Officer – Ken Takahashi Customers (..)

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2012

But they don’t teach you software development, which is much more useful, and a lot more fun. Part of the problem is the word “science” – they teach computer science theory, how to program in Java, math, logical, and a bunch of other things. When I compare it to French 3, I wanted to learn conversation French.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 13, 2014

FG Press fg press jane miller professional development sleep your way to the top' I’ll let you know as soon as Sleep Your Way To The Top hits the virtual book shelves or pre-order your copy here: [link]. The post Launch Party for Sleep Your Way To The Top And Other Myths About Business Success appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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MARCH 27, 2018

The Impact of Intensive Learning from Others on New Venture Development , Hallen, Bingham, and Cohen, 7/16. Startup Accelerators and Ecosystems: Complements or Substitutes? Fehder, 9/15. Do Accelerators Accelerate? If So, How? How Do Accelerators Impact the Performance of High-Technology Ventures? , Who Needs Contracts?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 11, 2021

Seth and Elizabeth have spent the past year talking to entrepreneurs all over the United States as they’ve developed their thesis around The New Builders. The Covid crisis has accelerated the growth and development of many high-tech companies, including the largest companies that were recently young, entrepreneurial businesses.

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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. The post Engage in the New Colorado Digital Service appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 20, 2013

Along with the rest of the tech ecosystem, I’m starting to see more and more entrepreneurs with a piece of hardware in their development plan. Ben and his team have designed, developed, manufactured, and financed a long list of successful products and they’ve built Bolt around best-practices for these kinds of companies.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Today they are launching Pantheon for Agencies , which enables professional web designers and developers to standardize all DevOps for all of their clients and nail every launch every time. every web design, development, and digital marketing company on the planet.)

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 24, 2016

It was about a set of Indian software developers in the US on H1-B visas. It’s easy to view all of this abstractly, rather than think about how it impacts individual people. Two weeks ago I watched a movie by Rishi Bhilawadikar titled For Here or To Go?

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Since SayAhh is in the pre-launch development stage, the company doesn’t have any revenue yet. A company at this stage could also face product development costs from consultants if they decided to outsource product development.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2017

The movie is about a set of Indian software developers in the US on H1-B visas. A little over a year ago I wrote a post about a documentary Amy and I were helping fund called For Here or To Go. The main character wanted to start a company, or join a startup, but couldn’t make either happen in the context of the current H1-B visa constraints.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Part of that vision became the agile software development products that Rally makes. He had a huge vision that started to be turned into practice when Tim Miller joined him as CEO about a year after he started the company. But Ryan’s vision was always bigger than that.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

.” While the specific claims may not be obvious to the patent troll, especially those who are lawyers who own patents they’ve picked up from other people (bankrupt companies, individuals who applied for and got a patent, patent factories), they are often extremely obvious to any software developer.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2010

It explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy. In additional “c’mon guys, software patents are invalid” news, there’s a great short movie that was supported by the Free Software Foundation called Patent Absurdity.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

Increase the Research and Development Tax Credit – and Make It Permanent. “There’s Too Much Uncertainty – and It’s Washington’s Fault. Gradually But Significantly Reduce the Federal Budget Deficit and National Debt. Enact Comprehensive Competitiveness-Enhancing Tax Reform. Negotiate a U.S.-China

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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. Some release weekly, or even daily.

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