Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2012

I just joined the Internet Defense League. Think of it as the cat signal for the Internet. You’ll see a signup at the top of this blog, or just go to the Internet Defense League site. Our goal is to help protect the Internet forever from bad laws, monopolies, and bad actions. I’m proud to be a part of it.

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JULY 4, 2012

On Monday, a group of people including me and my partners at Foundry Group signed on to the Declaration of Internet Freedom. We believe that a free and open Internet can bring about a better world. To keep the Internet free and open, we call on communities, industries and countries to recognize these principles.

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APRIL 9, 2013

Last week in Kansas City I experience the 1gig internet speed that is provided by Google Fiber. It’s interesting to ponder in the context of Internet connectivity. The post The Incredible Unevenness of Internet Connectivity appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Tech I Use connectivity google fiber internet'

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APRIL 21, 2014

In the last two weeks there’s been a flurry of articles about the implications of a 25% decline in the public market value of a bunch of Internet stocks. We probably had about $150m committed and were running around trying to get to $300m for what we had positioned as a dedicated Internet VC fund.

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

When we got home, we settled in upstairs with our coffees, the dogs, some music, and the Internets (well – she’s over there reading the New York Times – very old school.). I did all my normal Speedtest things and realized that it was actually the “performance of the Internet” Sites loaded fine.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2021

Make sure your lighting, Internet connection, and camera angle are appropriately professional. If you are getting a message out, using the newest or trendiest technology may draw listeners, but they will not hear the message if the system doesn’t work.

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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”).

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 11, 2012

I thought this was a powerful and clever video about the risks to the free and open Internet. I was happy to see Google launch their Take Action site last week about a Free and Open Internet. Vint Cerf (one of the actual creators of the Internet) talks more about the need to keep the Internet free and open.

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JULY 6, 2011

Finally I solved my Paris Internet Mobile 3G SIM cell phone nightmare poke my eyes out scream at my phone problem. Mobicarte comes with 5€ but you need at least 12€ to activate Internet Max. Now you want to follow the instructions for Internet Max on the wiki I referred to earlier. Choose 4=Option Internet Max.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 5, 2014

The snippets they highlighted (a few of many) were: - On Internet Fast Lanes: “If we let cable companies offer two speeds of service, they won’t be Usain Bolt and Usain Bolt on a motorbike. Politics incumbents internet john oliver net neutrality' They’ll be Usain Bolt and Usain Bolted-to-an-anchor.”. -

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Over the past few months I’ve had a number of people ask me if I know of any TechStars like accelerator programs for people creating non-software / Internet products and services.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. I was one of the most prolific Internet angel investors in Boston at this point (1994 – 1995) so our paths crossed periodically. ” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax. Do you want to help out?”

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JULY 25, 2013

Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” When I was was in college, I found some books written on the future social impact of the Internet on the World. We lost the campaign badly , but we won a major battle on The Frontier of Global Politics in the age of the Internet.

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JULY 8, 2010

But my friend the Internets (actually, the Web) brought DC closer to me today. Actually, I’m a lot closer to Russia than I am to DC and that makes me an expert on Russia. Wait, someone else said that (although the people next to me and Amy at dinner last night were speaking Russian.).

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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”).

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The book is titled Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire and the Internet of Things. The concept of the “Internet of Things” introduces the idea of any device being internet connected, which is powerful, but enchanted objects take it one step further. I’ve known David for many years.

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APRIL 2, 2012

I spend all of my working time in the domain of software, Internet, and entrepreneurship. Making sure they have a voice in the rapidly evolving software / Internet ecosystem on a global scale is important to me. Many of these political situations stifle entrepreneurship, innovation, or opportunities for these companies.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2021

Make sure your lighting, Internet connection, and camera angle are appropriately professional. If you are getting a message out, using the newest or trendiest technology may draw listeners, but they will not hear the message if the system doesn’t work.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The company was decimated by the collapse of the Internet bubble and ultimately went bankrupt. After I sold my company and started investing in companies in 1994, Charlie and I talked regularly about the Internet, which was just emerging as something that large companies should pay attention to.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Dan started the Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group (RMIUG) in 1994, almost 30 years ago, eventually growing to over 15,000 subscribers on their email lists. Dan was also friends with a dear friend of mine, the late Larry Nelson, who was a fixture (with his wife Pat, of course) at the Internet user group meetings.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. But I digress…).

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JUNE 28, 2019

I love weird Internet memes. If it’s “Did Abraham Lincoln Invent Pancakes” then the Internet is working as expected. Recently, I plumbed the depths of this one with my friend Quinn. Go to your Google browser and type “did ab” and see what comes up for you.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 4, 2023

” and a link to The Internet Is Kmart Now from The Atlantic. But the certainty of death, rather than the hubris of assumed eternity, was the salient cosmic feeling of the 1990s internet. Mark Goldstein sent me an email this morning titled your blog, an article i was in last week and yep in response to my post What Just Happened.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

A few things had to come together for securing (HTTPS’ing) the web to become reality: The global internet security community had to get serious about this problem. With Google now stiffly penalizing the SEO of non-HTTPS sites, and Chrome and Firefox escalating browser warnings , website owners are rapidly supporting security.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

The Internet has rapidly expanded beyond desktop, server, laptop, and mobile computers and connected itself to many of the different devices in our everyday life. They are the force behind the opening title sequence for 1978?s s Superman to 2006?s s Nike+ platform to 2010?s s HBO Go connected device.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The backend infrastructure that handles all the Internet connectivity and services for a world-wide distributed technology that was built by a team of 150 engineers overseas. Enjoy the story and contemplate whether it applies to your organization. I just read your post on Fixing the Obamacare site.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Internet of Things wasn’t yet a buzzword. All the articles about how capital efficient businesses were a result of AWS, better software development tools, easier starting points, better scaling technologies, and lots of other things. Do you remember when it was “all software, all the time?”

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Then, with in-depth coverage of the founders and companies that pioneered four industries—biotechnology, the Internet, from CAD-CAM to robotics, and modern finance—plus many other successful firms, Ed analyzes how MIT’s most successful entrepreneurs have capitalized on that environment and culture to build companies that have lasted for decades.

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JULY 31, 2017

There is now a long history of governments trying to control the Internet. One approach over government is censoring the Internet; another is weaponizing it. The Red Web covers Russia’s history around the Internet starting during the Cold War with a focus on the last twenty years.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2016

If you are interested in understanding the business implications of blockchain technology, William Mougayar ‘s new book – The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology – is a must read. I’ve known William for about five years.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2023

It’s like the Internet was in 1999 – ahead of its time. And, the crypto funds we have invested in have done exceptionally well … mostly. I regularly hear to be patient. The builders are building, and it’ll take over everything in the future. That’s cool. Just beware of the Ponzi schemes.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 21, 2016

This is, in effect, a simple form of load balancing that we are all technically aware of from our early investments in some companies that generated, or used, very visible load balancing products before some of these technologies started to become absorbed into the core Internet infrastructure (anyone remember early DNS round robin approaches?).

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

A few companies got bought before the whole Internet-bubble thing fell apart, and we almost managed to get bought (for around $500 million, but that’s another story for another day.). Or the ISP rollup before that?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

And Boulder will have another substantial software / Internet company in the mix. I expect we’ll look back on 2011 as the year that Gnip went from a highly product development focused company to a company that was firing on all cylinders.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

com well before podcasts were trendy (Larry and Pat referred to it as “Internet Talk Radio.”) If you don’t know Larry, he was a super positive participant in the Boulder and the Denver startup communities for many years. He and his wife Pat produced w3w3.com

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

When the Internet and telecom bubble collapsed, the gallery ran into trouble, so Amy and I invested in it to help support it and keep it open. While we have paintings, sculptures, and photographs from artists who live all over the world, many of the artists are from the Western United States.

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MAY 17, 2016

My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. The depressive episode only lasted three months, but the s**t show continued through 2002 as most VCs and Internet companies suffered a massive collapse. My whole world blew up in 2001. There was no joy anywhere.

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