Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you don’t know Scott, he was the co-founder and CEO of ExactTarget (2000) – one of the original SaaS companies. While the web is peppered with SaaS metrics and the state of SaaS, there’s a dearth of CEO-centric qualitative information. I put him in the awesome category.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Soon there will be a book (by me) on this, but for now there’s an increasing amount of content on the web building up to explain it. A few days ago he cranked out a post titled Colorado is for Founders. When people ask me about the Colorado vibe, I often talk about GiveFirst. pic.twitter.com/5jOv1K0gDL.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2014

I got asked today for a picture of the four founders of Techstars together (me, David Cohen, David Brown, and Jared Polis.) The web is just amazing. I did a search and came up with a few, but also stumbled upon this beauty. David Brown looks exactly like he does today. We didn’t have the.com domain yet.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. Step 2: Forecast the linear trend.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2011

Oh – and the founders – Jonathan Strauss and Laurie Voss are – well – awesome. We love things that wire the web together and believe Awe.sm is the company to do that for the construct of “sharing.” If you are a developer of a web app, take a look at how Awe.sm’s platform can help you.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2017

As an industry, we’ve learned a lot about this over the past decade since web 2.0 Ryan Leslie, Founder Disruptive Multimedia, former hip hop recording artist/producer, accepted to Harvard at age 14. started to emerge. Chris Voss , CEO The Black Swan Group, former FBI hostage negotiator.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2011

We’ve done lots of video that’s up on the web, including the awesome Founders Series ( 2010 and 2009 ) that our friend Megan Sweeney did with us. The first episode is launching on 9/13 at 9:30 EST on Bloomberg TV (and the web). TechStars Trailer 8/01 from Vortex Media on Vimeo.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Academic accelerators, like the one that MIT ran this summer called the MIT Founders Skills Accelerator , are introducing and experimenting with this in an academic setting. 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.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 21, 2010

The founder/CEO Keith Smith wrote a wonderful love story about the deal which was picked up by the WSJ VC Dispatch in a post titled A Summer Romance Between Founder And Venture Capitalist ? Yes, I’ve fallen in love (in a very non-sexual way) with Keith, his co-founder Jeff Malek, and BigDoor.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 21, 2015

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. An easy example from my daily life is the founder who leads off talking about his business by saying “we’ve got a lot of traction.”

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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

MARCH 2, 2014

Since then, I’ve been practicing every day, read a few books on meditation, talked to a lot of people about it, and explored several iPhone / web apps. I noticed that Andy Puddicombe, the founder of Headspace, had written a book called Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 9, 2010

I had lunch today with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola, the co-founders of Everlater , a TechStars 2009 company. Nate and Natty are two of my favorites – not only because they regularly kick my partner Seth Levine’s ass on bike rides but also because they starred in last year’s TechStars The Founders video series.

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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? The event ends with networking so you can meet the founders of these companies in person. Want to work for a startup? Come check out the TechStars Smackdown event on October 12th in Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The combination of hardware, software, and web data integration are the key, and the Fitbit founders ( James Park and Eric Freidman ) totally have this nailed. But that’s ok since it now knows how to talk to my computer, which is connected to the web, which is getting smarter every millisecond.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2011

I wrote about the story on my post What Should You Do When Your Web Service Blows Up. I’ve known the founder and CEO, Charlie Wood, for six years or so. And it will be painful. I became a believer in backing up my data when I was 17 years old and had my first data calamity.

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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. In 2010, I co-wrote Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup , with Techstars CEO and co-founder David Cohen. Magazine and Inc.com.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 6, 2011

Given that the company has had no funding to date, the founders have been scrappy and have cobbled together a really impressive prototype that they’ve been using to get early customer feedback. In their case, the customer is a business customer rather than a mass market consumer web product.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2013

One of the thoughtful notes I got was from Scott Petry – one of my good friends and co-founder of Authentic8 (we are investors). Companies such as Cloudflare, OpenDNS, Smartling, and more all offer in-line services that improve the web experience through DNS-level MITM-type model. Following are his thoughts on LinkedIn Intro.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 1, 2010

Besides his involvement with TechStars as a mentor, he is a celebrity in the AJAX community as the co-founder of Ajaxian.com , and previously held senior positions within Mozilla and Google. He will talk about the direction of the WebOS operating environment specifically and the future of mobile and the web.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 27, 2016

I was catching up on a bunch of reading on the web from last week and came across a post by Lars Dalgaard titled Thoughts on Building Weatherproof Companies. Invest in a coach : Many of the CEOs (and founders, and execs) we work with have coaches. We strongly recommend them.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

Upverter) and the natural viral effects of the social web. Kickstarter), communities (e.g. Thingiverse), collaboration (e.g. This fostered a new wave of entrepreneurs building products which were unthinkable a few years back. But building and selling a complete hardware product is still hard. Really hard.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

He said “we changed that a few years ago.&# I suggested that their web site didn’t talk about their seed program; he responded “yeah, we need to work on our web site.&#. I pointed out that their market reputation was that they didn’t do seed investments nor did they do many Series A investments.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 13, 2010

It’s one of the largest regular tech meetups in the world and is orchestrated by a bunch of folks, most notably Robert Reich of OneRiot who is the founder and ringleader. The tech community helped the non-profits on tech issues ranging from web design to social media help, database support to graphic design, and everything in-between.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 26, 2015

And then, I poked around the web and saw that this book, and Gallwey in general, is often referred to as the founder of the business coaching movement. It reinforced the simple message that Arturo tossed out in the middle of a lesson. It made me think of many conversations I’ve had with Jerry Colonna at Reboot.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

I then went on an exploration of the web to understand the All Writs Act of 1789 which is what the FBI is using to justify an expansion of its authority. I strongly recommend that you pay $0.99 (like I just did) to get a copy of the report The Real Unicorns of Tech: Black Women Founders, #ProjectDiane.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2011

While Facebook wasn’t the first social network in the Web 2.0 Early on, his coach and Nike co-founder, the amazing Bill Bowerman , encouraged him to “change the game&# by running the 3 mile (5k) instead of the mile. In my little corner of the universe, the ultimate first mover was Steve Prefontaine , one of my heroes.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2010

But my friend the Internets (actually, the Web) brought DC closer to me today. My friends Kevin Mann (British) and Thanavath Jaroenvanit (French) – both of TechStars Boulder 2008 – co-founders of Graphic.ly – and one of my inspirations for the Startup Visa movement) are prominently featured.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

The investment was an obvious one for us as it fits squarely in our Adhesive theme given the deep relationships LinkSmart has with big media and web platforms as a provider of analytics and traffic management software. My partner Seth Levine sits on the board and wrote about his view of LinkSmart.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 30, 2019

There has been plenty of commentary on the web about it (see The Myth of the Wartime and Peacetime CEO , which really only says a CEO has to be effective in both wartime and peacetime to be successful.). ” I think the first time he wrote about this was in his post in 2011 titled Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2018

Over dinner, after he had become the COO of Twitter (but before he was the CEO), Dick Costolo (who had previously been the founder/CEO of FeedBurner) told me that he viewed Twitter as the evolution of RSS. The beauty, and brilliance, of the web, started to become the walled garden of Facebook.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2013

A month ago a successful Boston entrepreneur who has been incredibly engaged in the Boston startup community was thrown in jail for three days after a CPB agent decided she didn’t have a valid visa (she did have a valid visa, and she was from that extremely dangerous country of Canada.).

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