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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

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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”). I’ve worked with Matt for over 20 years and have experienced many ups and downs.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

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”). I’ve worked with Matt for over 20 years and have experienced many ups and downs.

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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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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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Load Balancing Between VC Partners

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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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The Long Lost Myth of Capital Efficiency

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Internet of Things wasn’t yet a buzzword. I’m going to assert it’s a parallel universe of happiness based on the successful companies in our portfolio that I would categories as capital efficient. Do you remember when it was “all software, all the time?” ” This was all just five years ago.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

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Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. Friends from the campaign went on to run Obama’s Internet operation.

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Try On The Decision For 30 Days

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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.