Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 13, 2015

As I sit here watching Amy play tennis with her coach Mason (I hurt my shoulder serving so I’m taking a few days off), I’m reflecting on my first week back on the grid after a five week sabbatical. A few things come to mind. 1. Amy’s tennis game has improved dramatically over the past six weeks. She’s always had nice strokes, but she definitely has been playing beginner tennis.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Weekend Favs December Thirteen written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2015

I don't know a single venture capital investor who doesn't get a firehose of e-mail. You have money, they have ideas, so BAM, e-mails. It's just the nature of the job. You could try and hide your e-mail, make people jump through hoops to get it, but at some point, everyone's got it again. Even if not, by making it difficult to contact you, except through trusted introductions, you're implicitly saying "I think my next best deal is going to come from in my circle, as opposed to from outside of it

Deal Flow 101

Deal Flow Venture Capital Angel Investor Limited Partner 101

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2015

By Christophe Bertrand, Vice President, Product Marketing for Arcserve. Every organization, large or small, is vulnerable when it comes to data loss and disaster, and threats come in many forms: weather, power outages, computer viruses, data corruption, disk drive faults, and everyone’s favorite – human error. IT life is full of small disasters! Downtime after a data loss or disaster event can be kryptonite to business continuity, so it’s critical for companies to restore full operations and rec

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Most entrepreneurs are so convinced that they are the disruptive element, they fail to anticipate that unknown facts or events can and will occur to disrupt their own well-laid plans. While it’s true that there is no way of know specifically what might happen, you need to anticipate the worst, and actually build a Plan B. People who haven’t thought about a Plan B often don’t survive the shock.

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