Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

But more interestingly I saw it in my twitter feed from some entrepreneurs and VCs who I respect a lot. However, entrepreneurs just put their heads down and continued to accelerate the current web revolution which started around 2004 with “ Web 2.0 &# being articulated by Tim O’Reilly.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

He has a vision and the experience to create a non-partisan organization to engage and educate people, especially policymakers in government, regarding the critical importance of entrepreneurs and startups to innovation, economic growth, and job creation. So I decided to create an outline of the policies and the recommendations. They follow.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2021

This work is hard, and while there are endless short-form posts about this on the web, there are few in-depth, comprehensive resources to help business builders figure this out. Every entrepreneur and CEO should read LEVERS. It’s stage agnostic and will help you with at least the following things.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 16, 2021

us) and the entrepreneur, who did a few of these over her lifetime. While the web is a much noisier place in 2021 than it was in 2005, the opacity and information asymmetry around SPACs are remarkably similar to what existed 16 years ago around venture deals.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2012

It’s titled Beyond The Blog: Brad Feld’s Burning Entrepreneur – How to Launch, Fund, and Set Your Start-Up On Fire! While you can obviously find all the original posts on the web, seeing some of the best posts I’ve written about entrepreneurship organized in a cogent fashion was very satisfying.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2011

If you weren’t invited to the event, there is a web site called Reducing Barriers to Innovation that you can participate in. Immigration Policy : Make it easy for foreigner entrepreneurs to come to the US, or for foreign students to stay in the US, and start companies.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The web hosting business – lead by Exodus – almost entirely went bankrupt or was restructured. I do know that if you are an entrepreneur or investor, you should pay attention to the context but be very focused on building a durable long-term business. Google), regardless of whether they were private or public at the time.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2014

Instead, their search results are presented in cards that include web, video, social, and image previews. Brad Feld – Entrepreneur. is trying to integrate the notion of search directly with the real-time web and the extended social network faciliated by services like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Perspectives.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2018

I read hard copy books or on my Kindle, but try to stay completely off the web. Aaron does a great job challenging the conventional entrepreneurial mythology around how you have to work all the time, burn the midnight oil, grind it out, and be comfortable with the idea that great entrepreneurs work all the time.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2012

I’m starting to integrate a bunch of new stuff into the Startup Revolution site now that I’ve finished book #2: Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur. I’m looking for someone with web design chops who has experience with WordPress to work with me on some stuff.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 16, 2011

When Eric Norlin and my partner Seth Levine first cooked up the idea for glue, they built it around our Glue theme – namely integrating (or “glueing&# ) together web applications. We’ve invested heavily in the area with great success, but have only just begun. Our activity around Glue + AdTech generated our Adhesive theme.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2011

This is an updated version of the Startup Visa bill from last year that is aimed at making it much easier for foreign entrepreneurs who want to start a company in the US to get a visa. If you are a supporter of the Startup Visa, go to the Startup Visa web site and send a message to Congress about this right now !

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

I believe strongly that accelerator programs like TechStars have become a very effective “education program” for entrepreneurs. When we look back in 40 years, I expect another dramatic impact of the Internet and the web will be a massive shift in the way education is packaged and delivered. And that’s a good thing.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2012

Our goal will be to put this up on the web as well to provide content (and potentially interaction) to a much wider community. I’m looking for two types of feedback: (1) comments on the syllabus and (2) suggestions for web services to use to package this content up for broader distribution. Being an Entrepreneur.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 18, 2013

If you haven’t been on the Startup Revolution web site in a while, go take a look and give me feedback on things you’d like me to change, or add to it. Cole is a 25 year old entrepreneur, designer, and developer who’s design services company, ijitsu Design , was recently acquired by TundraLogic, Inc.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 28, 2016

” That’s about as vulnerable a sentence you will see from an entrepreneur. Paul like many entrepreneurs, is a complex person. If you don’t remember Interleaf , you need to go learn about it because it was a really important pre-Web and then Web-transition company.). So now I was doubly interested.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2014

Instead, their search results are presented in cards that include web, video, social, and image previews. Brad Feld – Entrepreneur. is trying to integrate the notion of search directly with the real-time web and the extended social network faciliated by services like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Perspectives.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

Three months ago, what seemed to be a crazy idea became reality: HAXLR8R gathered 9 startups from the US, Europe and Asia in the electronics mecca – Shenzhen, helping entrepreneurs to kickstart their ventures based on physical devices. Upverter) and the natural viral effects of the social web. Kickstarter), communities (e.g.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Today one of our portfolio companies BigDoor announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OneTrueFan , a community and web check-in company. The former OneTrueFan team will be primarily focused on building and running a BigDoor branded rewards program that is targeted to long tail and medium size web publishers.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 23, 2013

We’ve known Bill and Andrea since the mid-1990s – we met through Young Entrepreneurs Organization. Bill and I spent many hours working on the early YEO web site, back before anyone had web sites, and the four of us enjoyed lots of time together at YEO events in unexpected places like Barbados.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2016

OpenLP is a new site moderated by the gang at Sapphire Ventures that seems to be a collection of all the LP stuff floating around the web. I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better. He didn’t invest in our fund, but he made a strong impression on me.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Have you ever wanted to work for a web startup, but aren’t sure where to look or how it might be different from a big company gig? Want to work for a startup? Come check out the TechStars Smackdown event on October 12th in Boulder. It’s not a typical job fair.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 13, 2017

When Web 2.0 Google’s “Do No Evil” mantra was on everyone’s lips as a rallying cry for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to “change the world” and “ make a dent in the universe.” It’s here.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 21, 2013

Lura is also a good friend, contributor to Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur , mother of two awesome young women, and wife of Todd Vernon, CEO of VictorOps. . She learns that her grades will greatly improve if she pays attention in class rather than surfing the web behind the teacher’s back.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 18, 2014

but earlier this year decided to stop writing for other web sites , at least for a while, as it had become a burden with all the other writing that I’m doing. I set out to be an entrepreneur and then an investor. I’ve enjoyed writing for Inc., I thought it would be fun for my last article in Inc.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Some do it under their name; other’s do it on their firm’s web site. And, I always remember what I tell entrepreneurs: “It’s just data – and it’s often wrong.” Some are focused on using content marketing strategies to build their brand and reach.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). I was chair of NetGenesis, which was the first angel investment I’d made after selling Feld Technologies (my first company).

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures recently wrote an excellent blog post titled “The Expanding Birthrate of Web Startups.” The super angel is hyper-connected and works closely with the entrepreneurs he/she invests in. Correspondingly, the idea that entrepreneurs only need super angels doesn’t make sense either.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 9, 2010

Nate was a math major; Natty was a econ major, but neither had a clue how to build a web app. I regularly get asked questions (via email, face to face, and this blog) by non-technical entrepreneurs how they should get started if they don’t have a technical co-founder.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This morning as I was doing my morning infoscan (Daily Web Sites, Twitter, RSS Feeds) I noticed a ton of stuff that I’d put in the noise category. Will it impact a new generation of successful entrepreneurs and angel investors or will it result in a big money pit? Who knows – check back in ten years.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2012

Something a random person, usually an entrepreneur, who is well intentioned but unknown to me wants me to tweet. As web apps go completely mainstream, I see this more and more. These requests generally fit in one of three categories: 1. Something a company I’m an investor in wants me to tweet.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 6, 2011

The entrepreneurs have been living the specific problem for a long time and believe they have a unique and very informed way to solve it. In their case, the customer is a business customer rather than a mass market consumer web product.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The first is the stupid one – many entrepreneurs get tangled up in the ego dynamics of a financing (“look ma – we raised money’) and lose sight of the notion that raising money is just one tiny step on the path to success. Regardless, the info on Form D is out there on the web.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is to assume “all VCs are the same.” It’s easy to do today via the web and the power of all the network connections between people. ” I moved off the analogy to make the point that you should do your research on the person and firm you are talking.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Danielle Morrill of Mattermark memorialized her first board meeting on the web in her post Post Series A Life: Reflecting on Our First Board Meeting and What It’s Like Working with Brad. Do you remember your first board meeting? Well, I sort of do, kind of, maybe. ” Just remember – keep it real, not fake. Be yourself.

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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.&#. While Facebook wasn’t the first social network in the Web 2.0 “Google? Not the first search engine. .&#

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 21, 2015

For entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley, and even plenty within Silicon Valley, the language seems forced. I can look it up on the web (that’s where the definition came from) and if I didn’t say I had no idea what it meant, it puts me in the fake smart category. Many, like traction, are completely meaningless.

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