Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

ASC starts building product, but as they get into the thick of it, the team realizes executing on their vision is going to be extremely hard. Heads down on product, they say. Eventually early product demos start happening but they’re rough and the product looks very alpha. Seven months in, there is a beta product.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We love products like the Pogoplug and the Slingbox “software that ships with a little plastic box that does magic stuff” that, in Pogoplug’s case, provides you access to any of your external hard drives from anywhere in the world on any device. Tags: My Investments cloud engines pogoplug.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

And, rather than have it be an “engineering thing”, you can (and should) make it a full company thing. The goal is not to include everything from the hackathon in future releases; rather it’s to stimulate a bunch of ideas, generate some prototypes, end up with some useful code, but get everyone in the company thinking about all the products.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We love products like the Pogoplug and the Slingbox “software that ships with a little plastic box that does magic stuff” that, in Pogoplug’s case, provides you access to any of your external hard drives from anywhere in the world on any device. Tags: My Investments cloud engines pogoplug.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

For our portfolio companies, this requires diverting senior DevOps engineers to ensure things go right, which of course comes at the expense of delivering and operating their product and even then there are no guarantees. So many things have to go right for your launch to be flawless: server configuration, load testing, and deployment.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

high deploy rates), while simultaneously increasing the reliability, stability, resilience of the production environment. And that means increasingly fragile infrastructure in production. Furthermore, use the same build mechanism to build the Production, Test and Dev environments at the same time. puppet, chef, etc.)Furthermore,

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I think I’ll avoid all the “ are super angels colluding “, “ no they aren’t “, “ go fuck yourself and stop talking horseshit “, and “ guys, quit being narcissistic and do something productive &# blog chatter today and focus on something that came up yesterday.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 31, 2012

But the PalmPilot was a hugely successful and category changing product.). And Ford, Kia, Cadillac, Mercedes and Audi all have really nice products and prototypes and employ passionate HMI people. There’s no such thing anymore as “professional” equipment in music production, photography or film.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Brad and Jason are now in their tenth year of teaching the VC course, which attracts a cross-campus mix of JD, MBA, and engineering graduate students. Silicon Flatirons continues to support a range of entrepreneurship activity.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital. Most losses happen when you combine Market and Product risk – take one, not both, and take it with a proven entrepreneur. Taking all five at once is crazy. The fatal flaw of the 80’s was fear”. Some worked; some did not.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 13, 2017

.” While this can apply to any size company, it’s particularly relevant to a company that is in the market with its first product, or a company that is now scaling rapidly with a set of products. The three machines are: (1) the Product machine, (2) the Customer machine, and (3) the Company machine.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Two of the technology world’s biggest names have now added the Structure Sensor to their roster of award-winning new technology products for 2013 and 2014. Every year, Popular Science chooses 100 products they consider to be the “Best of What’s New.” Check out Popular Science’s “Best Of What’s New” for 2013 here.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

The National Day of Civic Hacking is the first of a yearly event created by the White House to gather Citizen Engineers and have them use newly accessible government data to improve their communities and our entire society. On Saturday, NREL engineers will join the local civic hackers too.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2011

Many K-12 teachers who want to introduce their students (girls and boys) to computing and engineering use LEGO products like Mindstorms and Technics and LEGO energetically markets their products for this purpose. Your products are a great avenue for educating our young people, but your Minifigures are stuck in the past.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2012

After months or years of iterating and pivoting, they finally have the right product for the right market at the right price. years of product development and varying business approaches, Gnip found their magic moment about a year and half ago. Also in February, Gnip released the first ever commercial Twitter historical product.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2011

He reached out in response to a post I had written ( What’s Your Product Cadence ). Fracture’s goal is to inspire a renaissance in photo products and printing, replacing cheap frames and overpriced services with a practical alternative that helps you tell your life’s story visually.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Last week our portfolio company, JumpCloud - who is deep in the DevOps market with their automated cloud server management product – hosted the first annual DevOps conference here in Boulder. It was a huge success – we had over 200 people show up and engage in a full day of deep discussions on DevOps.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2015

twice recently, including when I was on a panel at Stanford School of Engineering on Entrepreneurship from Diverse Perspective. all anyone talks about is raising money” This is a nice link back to Greg’s post, where he quotes Jim Barksdale, the CEO of Netscape (Greg was the first product manager at Netscape.).

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2013

Ideas_Matter: The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. He explains this clearly in the rest of the post using the construct of the Idea Maze which is explained in the Coursera Startup Engineering course which I’ve been taking.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 20, 2012

Nick is currently running a company called MoveableCode and has a great Kickstarter campaign going for his latest product Incantor (Magic Made Real). Triv was an engineer at a company I worked for when I first came to the US as a product manager. Go check out the campaign and support him if you are interested.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 23, 2013

He was genetically undeniably the product of his parents. If you want to hear an amazing story of perseverance, love long distance running stories, are fascinated with ultramarathons, wonder what Twitter engineers do in their spare time, or just want to revel in a great story, go read Sam Ritchie’s Leadville 100 post right now.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2011

In an article I wrote recently for Reuters titled Note to entrepreneurs: Your idea is not special I made the point that “the products and their subsequent companies became great because of execution.&#. Not the first search engine. “Google? Not the first social network. Not the first deal site. Not the first music site.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2012

Send them examples for them to tweet, including a link to your product, site, or whatever you are promoting.” There must have been a social media online course somewhere that told people “email all people you know with big twitter followings and ask them to tweet something out for you. ” Ok – that’s cool.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2015

In one day on-site I was a part of his exec kick-off meeting, attended a company product strategy meeting, and interviewed two executives, two engineers, and individuals from their sales and marketing team. ” Jud invited me to attend his management meetings and let me interview anyone on his entire team at will.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2011

That doesn’t affect the quality of their cloud product directly, but given that they have lured customers with the claim that they do use it, this does impact our trust in relation to their marketing integrity. Some data centers are run better than others, but they all have outages.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2013

During my senior year, I took “Startup Essentials for Software Engineering” (taught by Zach Nies of Rally Software) and I can confidently say it was the best class I ever took at CU. It’s a great way to get your product or brand in front of lots of early-stage entrepreneurs and great mentors from Boulder. for more questions.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2013

I’ve been in three board meetings in the last month where it was painfully apparent that there wasn’t a person in the company who owned the UX philosophy of the product. In each of the companies, there is an excellent VP of Engineering. They each have a strong design / UI person. Two of the three had founder/CTOs.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2017

We’ve seen a lot of companies spin up a Labs as a way to try to create new products. ” Fortunately, most of the companies I’m involved with who have done a Labs thing have shut it down and reabsorbed it back into the product organization in a more systematic way. Both of these are foundational issues.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Building robots is much more complex than building computers, however: robots consist not only of computers, but also of sensors and mechanisms that need to be invented, re-combined, and modified to create a compelling product. They also contribute to a pool of “Can-Do” people that spin off companies.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, LinkSmart , has come out of stealth mode and unveiled its product, Total Link Management and $4.7M This blog, your site, and how search engines like Google and Bing rank you and your relevance were all dependent upon links. in financing led by Foundry Group. We clicked. And the Internet grew.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than take the bait and react, he thinks carefully in real time and makes a critical philosophical point about his – and Apple’s – approach to creating new products. Oblong , MakerBot , Orbotix , Fitbit , and Cloud Engines immediately come to mind.

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