Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 24, 2012

The computer virus hacked together by a teenager had become fully sentient, completely distributed, had formed tribes that now had trading patterns, a society, and a will to live. By this point I figured out where things were going to go over the next 100 pages, although I had no idea how it was going to end.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 22, 2011

I got an email from an exec (and friend) at a major software company who is rolling out their product on the iPad which should dramatically improve the iPad’s ability to interact with legacy enterprise systems. completely new software OS stack and UI than “Windows&# ) if they want to get in the game.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2015

To date, Boulder-based startups such as Rally Software, Gnip, Revolv, Mocavo, DocPopcorn, Techstars, and Filtrbox have joined Foundry Group in distributing more than $3.5 million to Colorado community nonprofits at the point of exit — when companies are either acquired or go public.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

I love software wrapped in plastic. The remaining traps to avoid are in the fields of logistics, distribution, financing and fundraising, among others. Following is a guest post from Cyril about the program along with a link to their Demo Day event in San Francisco on June 18th.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Let’s get anyone doing robotics related stuff together and create some entrepreneurial critical mass around this, just like we have for the software / Internet community.” All three companies actively develop hardware and software that make the integration of ever more complex mechatronic products possible in garages.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

.&# I’ve invested in several companies that seem to fit within this categorization, including SimpleGeo , Gnip , and BigDoor , but we don’t really think about them as “data as a service&# companies (SimpleGeo and Gnip are in our Glue theme; BigDoor is in our Distribution theme).

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2018

At first, I was obsessed with distributed 3D printing. They are WiFi connected (just like today’s laser printer), have contemporary software, are integrated with everything 3D software related, and work extremely well. His 2012 book Makers: The New Industrial Revolution helped me understand this better. On the desktop.

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