Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Founders, who are already under immense pressure from many directions, now have to contend with that dynamic for themselves in an uncertain business environment, connected only by video conferencing and email to their teams, investors, and customers. It should be no surprise that the mental health part of the crisis is real and accelerating.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2018

A week ago I read Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. Basically, I’ve turned down the input knobs on almost all real-time social media inputs to 0. I’ve been using Sanebox for two years to filter out all the noise from my email.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2018

It also generated a few public ones, including the link to the article What is the problem with social media? Jordan asserts that the problem with social media can be broken down into four foundation problems. And I doubt I would have found it scanning my social media feeds. by Jordan Greenhall which was extraordinary.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2013

All you have to do to be entered is email me the electronic receipt by 11:59pm EDT on Sunday night. If you play, make sure you also tweet out about the book, Facebook the purchase, or do whatever other social media thing lights your fire. If you need immediate gratification, the Kindle version of Startup Boards is already shipping.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2019

History is recorded and codified through the journalism, social media, and public policy, and tends to emphasize the voices of those already in the public eye. If you are interested in supporting this effort or getting involved in any way, drop me an email.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

I sent out a few emails to mentors of mine who had been VCs in the 1980s. Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.), While I don’t know Jerry very well, I like him and thought his post was extremely detailed and thoughtful.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2012

Unless I know something about #3 or are intrigued by the email, I almost never do anything with #3 (other than send a polite email reply that I’m not going to do anything because I don’t know the person.) Something a random person, usually an entrepreneur, who is well intentioned but unknown to me wants me to tweet.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2012

If you are an investor (angel or VC), send me an email and I’ll get you an invitation. Each company gets $20k in funding, mentorship from top entrepreneurs, investors and Microsoft executives, $60K in Azure credit, office space, training and support, and demo day to pitch to investors, media, and industry influentials.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2017

.” I know him from an angel investment in Dogster, a company he founded and ran from 2003 to 2011 when he sold it to SAY Media. I haven’t kept up with Ted other than a periodic email. Jeff Clavier introduced us, and I think it was the first investment Jeff and I did together.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 17, 2014

I know from conversations and our friend “social media” that many of you were impacted by Robin Williams’ recent suicide. If you are a CEO and this is something you are interested in participating in, send me an email and I’ll hook you up.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2016

” A bitter person could expand this to mean all of media. Instead of working on the final draft of the Second Edition of Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job (being published by Wiley in Q117) I’ve been surfing the web, looking at Twitter and Facebook, responding to email, and drinking apple cider.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

All you have to do to be entered is email me the electronic receipt by 11:59pm EDT on Sunday night. If you play, make sure you also Like the book (if you order on Amazon), tweet out or Facebook the purchase, or do whatever other social media thing lights your fire. I will announce the winners on Monday morning. Related articles.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 27, 2013

All you have to do to be entered is email me the electronic receipt by 11:59pm EDT on Saturday night (2/2/13). If you play, make sure you also Like the book (if you order on Amazon), tweet out or Facebook the purchase, or do whatever other social media thing lights your fire. I will announce the winners on Monday morning.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 2, 2017

I’ve tried to isolate “on my computer” from “checking email”, but even that constraint is awkward. But, there is a difference between “spending a bunch of time catching up on email” and “just checking/responding to the stuff that came in overnight or throughout the day.” before including something in the 2%.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 27, 2012

I got an email today from an exec at a company who I was with at a recent board meeting. Rather than trying to summarize it, I got permission to just reprint the email. I thought it was a powerful summary of part of our discussion, specifically around the sales pipeline for Q4 and overall sales execution. It follows.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 27, 2012

I’ve also observed many times (and experienced) the steep curve from obscurity to hero to goat to re-emergent hero that the media loves to play out over and over again. And my day is filled with random interactions – many of them interesting and stimulating – but plenty of them hostile, negative, and troll-like.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 26, 2017

I’ve been at home for a week and haven’t been doing much other than sleeping, reading, responding to email, eating mac and cheese, and sleeping some more. To do this, I withdrew on several dimensions, especially via social media and online channels, which diminished my experience, but allowed me time and space to think.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2010

Enjoy your five minute break from monitoring your social media and email to see if something important is going on. Sometimes Colbert is priceless. Well – most of the time. This one had Amy and I laughing hard today. Matt Galligan reminded me that this is oddly reminiscent of SocialThing’s TechStars Demo Day.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2011

I received at least one email a day last week pitching a politics oriented web startup. The emails start off something like this. The web and social media are critical tools for any candidate. Over $8 billion dollars will be spent on the upcoming 2012 election.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Reset Social Media : While I’ve always been a broadcaster on social media (primarily Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn), my consumption and engagement patterns ebb and flow. Email remains the best way to get me, although I will continue 1:1 interaction via whatever channels find their way to me (SMS, txt, FBM, LI, DM).

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2011

When I extend this to my overall information consumption pattern, I realize that a lot of signal is once again getting lost in the noise, especially around the RSS feeds that I try to read regularly versus the endless amount of web media that is now distributed by RSS.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Fred Wilson emailed me a link to Dennis Crowley’s post I’m running the NYC Marathon tomorrow! Fred knows my obsession with human instrumentation, marathons, and social media. And if you recognize Dennis’ name, that’s because he’s the founder / CEO of Foursquare. of the NYC Marathon via RunKeeper.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 29, 2015

After he posted it, he sent around the link to a few prominent people in the tech media. A few days later, I sent out a few emails asking folks I knew at these sites why they hadn’t written anything, since they so quickly write Company X raised Y from A, B, and C. Interestingly, the media wrote more this time.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

And phrases like “social media marketing&# and “marketing spend&# rarely surface in discussions, and when they do I vomit a little in my mouth. I hate traditional marketing and have always resisted it early in the life of a new company. Fred Wilson has a phenomenal blog post up this morning titled Marketing.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2010

I neglected however to mention their actual launch party, which is happening on April 7th from 7pm – 10pm at the MIT Media Lab. It looks like it should be a fun event – email Jen Novak if you want an invitation. Related posts: MIT Entrepreneurship Review.

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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? My friends at Orbotix are hiring. Following is the list of open positions.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2011

I’ve got 1400 followers already who presumably simply auto-discovered me via Google’s algorithms (they do have a great social graph already given all the Gmail emails and address books.). Recently I wrote a post titled Rethinking My Social Graph.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2015

I also write a lot of other stuff all day long (mostly emails) and the majority of my communication is written, which I prefer much more than verbal. No more social media of any sort. I’ve always enjoyed multiple forms of writing – micro (tweets), short (blog posts), medium (magazine articles), and long form (books).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2016

I’m in great emotional shape, as I meditated almost daily, spent lots of time with friends who came to visit, ignored almost everything going on in the world (although I got sucked into the election a few times), stayed completely off social media, and read a book a day. And – no email. No Twitter. No Facebook.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2013

I dug up a bunch of old pictures (hosted in our very large photo archive on Dropbox), crafted a WordPress blog, uploaded the photos in the media center on WordPress, and published the blog. I brought it up, admired my work, and send Amy an email with the link. ” I took a look.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2010

Vinnie gave me a copy of a book to give away to one of you, demonstrating his command of social media marketing. Leave your haiku in the comments (make sure you use a valid email address so I can email you if you win.) Show me what you’ve got.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 5, 2015

On a daily basis, I consume books, essays (posts on Medium, magazine articles), blogs, emails, Facebook posts, Tweetstorms, and Tweets. Sure, the book is competing with a lot of other media types, but reading (and writing) seems to persist quite successfully. Is the book really dead?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Send it to your friends via email and social media. The sad irony is that those promoting these measures have the time and organization to put towards pressing their backward and closed agenda while many who oppose it are busy helping keep Boulder prosperous by creating jobs and economic growth.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

” was the title of an email sent to me by Brad, after he had heard from one of his CEOs that Zayo is constructing fiber in Boulder. I sought to mimic his propensity to leverage social media. It’s great – and follows. Dan – we are lucky to have you – and Zayo – in Boulder. ”, he continued.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 16, 2018

The only inconvenience I’ve noticed so far are all the sites where I used Facebook as the sign-on authenticator (rather than setting up a separate email/password combo.) Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now tipped me over into thinking harder about this.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

So, it’s with much pride that I see her now doing her “art pick of the month&# where she’s selling one of her pieces for 30% off and promoting it through her email list. If you are an art lover and this piece appeals to you or you want to be added to Cecelia’s email list, send her an email.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I will not text, email or post anything that I would not be happy being on the front page of the NY Times tomorrow. If I am unsure whether something might be offensive or hurtful to someone else, I will NOT text, email, post or otherwise communicate it digitally. I will not be on social media of any kind.

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