Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). It’s off to a great start.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2016

By Trevor Sumner, Chief Technology Officer of LocalVox. Almost half of local business listings have basic errors in Name, Address and Phone number – what’s called NAP in the search engine world. And as a bonus, getting your Name, Address and Phone number right everywhere online (website, social, directories, etc.)

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Brilliant ad agencies and clever marketing communications experts. Local MVP (most valuable professional) customers are critical in helping Microsoft penetrate foreign markets affordably and effectively, providing the firm its most effective marketing communications and saving it hundreds of millions of dollars in support costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. How will you be taking this to market? Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? Often this ties to marketing support. What’s different, special here? Administrators?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 16, 2020

Being relatively a new service trend in today’s tech-driven world, CTO-as-a-Service (CaaS) is notably gaining its momentum. Though CTO as a traditional full-time position exists for decades, some companies do not feel they need a technology executive. Ideal scenario assumes there’s a CTO in house. Early-stage startups.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. How will you be taking this to market? Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? Often this ties to marketing support. What’s different, special here? Administrators?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Naming a Business. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Bringing Innovation to Market. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Science and Technology Technology. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Email address: Home.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup. This can take some work, but its worth it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

Grow Your Business By Growing Your People written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Whitney Johnson. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Whitney Johnson. She is one of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. Learn more here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

If you decide to outsource your website/mobile development to a third-party service provider you will want to put together a good RFP with your CTO before approaching potential vendors. Allows for user/market testing to avoid the costly/timely mistakes in development of unneeded/undesired features. Business name. Phone number.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. No revenues, no costs.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Michael is not his real name. This role in the vendor world you get to go to various clients and show off cool detailed stuff that your VP of Marketing consistently screwed up so far and answer technical questions from wise guys. It is quite likely that you'll sit in the IT (CTO / CIO) function.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.) It was my ex boss from Convergent Technologies, “Steve we’ve all just resigned from Convergent and we’re starting a new company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. No, my real name is Jonathan.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

NAME THAT TECH TUNE. It found that sixty-two out of 100 venture funds it worked with failed to exceed returns available from the public markets, after fees and carry were paid. IT staffing, consulting and software development services. Snow Creek Technology Law PS. WINDOWS PHONE. Mobile News. WINDOWS PHONE. VIDEO GAMES.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

I had always wanted to do consulting but was waiting until my son went off to college. After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. I realized that what worked for me could work for sales and marketing teams across the world.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

She would be the cashier, cook, marketer, and any other role that was needed. She applied guerrilla marketing principles before the term was even invented. As an online marketing specialist, I love this quote. This quote is from Oleg Vishnepolsky the global CTO at DailyMail Online and Metro.co.uk. — Bryan Eisenberg.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I've been President of my marketing, branding, creative and advertising firm for, yikes, 30 years. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years. Having fun again.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. Now you go: Name (required). My hunch is that most good software engineers only work for cash because they don’t feel that working for equity is worth the risk of failure. They can easily get great benefits and a six figure salary. Good riddance.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In 2013, CSG was named one of the top 100 I.T. CSG offers its clients both an outsourced Chief Technology Officer and an entire I.T. department for a fraction of the price of hiring these resources in-house. Get involved with direct marketing, go into media (news channels, radio shows, etc) to build credibility.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad and his team at DarwinApps are considering launching DevFund — their attempt at cofounding companies by developing the MVP technology.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

With a mission to provide the best executive education online with brand-name academic institutions, authors, and experts; CorpU is a trusted advisor to world-leading organizations and is in the best position to bring “branded” higher education to the corporate market. Maestro Market. Grovo solves this problem.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Many companies that failed started during the recent financial crisis (and continues to suffer through), and some startups highlighted the larger market negativity as a reason for their ultimate demise. If there is no money out there for your idea, reassess whether there is a market for it, and reassess your approach. #16

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. Not everybody can, especially if they need to run with the idea to get to market.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tiny, contracting market. works with the massive market that is YouTube. The only––and the strongest––track record you can have is the product you’ve built and the traction/market feedback you’ve gotten. Again, if you’re a no-name nobody like me, you’ve gotta build a name for yourself from scratch.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Forbes.com named her one of 30 women entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter, and HubSpot dubbed her one of the 100 most powerful women on Twitter. The virtual assistants, marketing assistants people that I work with on my team, holy cow. They don’t bill as much as I do, and they do the work in a fraction of time.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

Just out of college, I moved to China to seek my fortune as an entrepreneur, starting a consulting business where we helped large retailers and fashion brands manage their manufacturing infrastructure in China. And social media gave them all the ability to market their products in non-traditional ways. Small is the new big.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). Best damn marketing tool by an order of magnitude. Separate Blogging from Marketing. This is also true of your domain name. This is that post.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? get someone who can code fast and prototype young or old - getting to validation and in market is top priority. Knowledge of the market , your desired positioning , strategy to get there. the nice thing is that to start, THEY PAY the consultant for you. Rockstar v.

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