Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2012

One of the most enduring challenges any Internet marketer faces is getting users to come back regularly and engage on their website. Social gaming companies and a few very popular consumer web services have gotten extremely good at creating loyalty, where loyalty rate is defined as Daily Active Users (DAU) / Monthly Active Users (MAU).

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2019

I love weird Internet memes. If it’s “Did Abraham Lincoln Invent Pancakes” then the Internet is working as expected. is now a permanent part of the web. 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

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. 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).

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Feld Thoughts

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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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2018

I loved this quote by Tristin Harris in the New York Magazine article The Internet Apologizes …. ” The article ends with a parallel quote from Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web. The web that many connected to years ago is not what new users will find today. The price of free is actually too high.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2017

Here are a few from the 1990s: Internet, World Wide Web, Browser, Ecommerce (with both a capital E and a little e). Or, some from the 2000s: Web Services, SOAs, Web 2.0, More recently, we’ve enjoyed Apps, Big Data, Internet of Things, Smart Factory, Blockchain, Quantum Computing, and Everything on Demand.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2019

David then funded a project for Eliot to turn it into an “internet public art project.” It’s a fabulous integration of story, illustration, and design on the web. He shared it with Eliot, who then wrote the short story. ” Eliot describes how they made True Blue.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2019

I wonder what this would have been like 30 years ago, pre-commercial Internet and World Wide Web. I had two meetings in person today – one canceled and I went ahead and canceled the other one just for flexibility. I expect DIA is going to be a total mess although the status is pretty normal right now.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If you lived through the Internet-bubble between 1999 and 2002 you know this cycle well. The web hosting business – lead by Exodus – almost entirely went bankrupt or was restructured. And, you know that the companies that survived it were the ones with very strong fundamental businesses (e.g.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I believe the phase we are currently in began in the early 1990′s with the invention of the World Wide Web and subsequent emergence of the commercial Internet. Or even just a web browser and a Google search on your iPad. I expect this will be my intellectual obsession in 2012.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 7, 2018

The new Gmail client for the web is finally here. Send threading : If you are on a fast internet connection, this won’t matter to you. But, if you do email on a plane or a house in Longmont, Colorado (where I regularly have internet performance that is < 5 MB) you will love this feature. And a lot of things are fixed.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 18, 2012

Many of our Glue investments and our Protocol investments are growing quickly and becoming integral parts of the Internet and web software infrastructure. We’ve been investing in our Glue theme and Protocol theme for a long time – well before we started Foundry Group.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 22, 2012

Regardless, the experience around this over the last few months has impacted me pretty profoundly – both in my disdain for politics as usual, liars, and ass covering as well as my pride for grassroots leadership and the power of the Internet and the Web to get the word out and engage people.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

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

APRIL 3, 2011

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So, in hindsight, the great Internet bubble of 2001 was very powerful and useful to me, even though it was very painful. But more interestingly I saw it in my twitter feed from some entrepreneurs and VCs who I respect a lot.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 27, 2015

A bunch of other stuff probably happened in the background as we connected Picasa to the web, installed various Google apps on our machines, and I had a brief foray into using an Android phone. After doing this a few times, I started reading about Picasa on the web and my soul was crushed. However, I mostly ignored the problem.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 4, 2011

Amy tried again – she was getting better as asking for a “prepaid SIM card with Internet / 3G data&# in French. This time “prepaid SIM card with Internet / 3G data&# generated a flurry of activity. We were sent home with the instructions to activate the SIM from the Web being told that it was faster and cheaper.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2011

The pod companies will be chosen on merit, the pod space will be free (that includes electricity, signage, hard wired internet drop — basically, everything – just show up with your computer), and will be chosen by the following judges: Eric Norlin (GlueCon Organizer). John Musser (Programmable Web).

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Glue seeks to explore the connective “tissue&# of the web and IT infrastructure. That connective tissue can be called a lot of things: service oriented architecture, web services, APIs, cloud computing, etc. the demo pod includes passes to the show, signage, internet — everything you need; just show up with a laptop).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Companies such as Cloudflare, OpenDNS, Smartling, and more all offer in-line services that improve the web experience through DNS-level MITM-type model. LinkedIn Intro inserts their active web content into your email data. If they’re not, the Internet community will do it for you. Simple to configure and high leverage.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The web appeared in 1994 and a completely different method of communication started its long march into integrating in our universe. By 1987 I was regularly using faxes and Federal Express (the only overnight mail I was aware of), but a mobile phone and email didn’t really show up until around 1993 for me.

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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. Lars, thanks for taking the time to write it. The post Building Long Term Companies appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2011

As most nerds know, Skynet gained self-awareness last week and decided as its first act to mess with Amazon Web Services, creating havoc for anyone that wanted to check-in on the Internet to their current physical location. Following are Dave’s thoughts on learning the right lessons from the Amazon outage.

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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. The Internet was founded on our ability to link between things. And the Internet grew. We clicked.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 4, 2010

It took me one phone call to get Internet (DSL) working again (ACS had to reset my password) and within about 15 minutes everything was working just fine. I have an old HP 3330 with a JetDirect USB to Internet print server. Yeah, it could have been a web page via an iPhone also. Except I couldn’t print.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

While I was in Iceland a few weeks ago, there was a set of discussions driven by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures about trying to make Iceland and “Internet Neutrality Zone” similar to Switzerland and banking. While I have no idea if this is feasible, the need for it seems to be increasing on a regular basis.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Actually, you just need to read two relatively short “open letters” which appeared on the web this morning. But thankfully the US did not do that with the Internet. The impact of the commercial Internet on the US economy and our society as a whole has been massive and overwhelmingly positive over the past twenty years.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2018

The beauty, and brilliance, of the web, started to become the walled garden of Facebook. For those of us who remembered AOL’s walled garden vs. the web (and Microsoft’s failed attempt as MSN as a walled garden), there were echoes of the past all over the place.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2012

While my partners and I are focused on a set of broad horizontal themes , USV is investing in the application layer of the Internet with a particular focus on Internet services that create large networks. .” If you follow USV’s investment thesis, you know that it’s different from Foundry Group’s thesis.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I’ve been involved in a number of public policy debates, especially around the Internet, innovation, and immigration. ” The Government Is Taking Over The Internet: The rules will not lead to the FCC regulating the Internet. Government fcc internet net neutrality wheeler'

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