Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Each quarter Cooley does a VC market update. Based on Cooley data for the quarter, how does your experience in the market compare? Based on Cooley data for the quarter, how does your experience in the market compare? For a couple of years commentators in the market has talked about a “Series B” problem. It’s the same.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2020

At some level, that’s not new, as the regular end of year media rhythm for as long as I can remember is a stream of famous people being asked their predictions for the next year. Near term predictions drive the stock market (e.g., There are entire domains, such as economics, that are all about predictions.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2020

Because It attacks via the vectors of modernity: trade linkages, obesity, diabetes, air travel, mass transportation, urban density, social media, etc. As the old capital markets saying goes, “at inflections, markets move in whatever direction will cause the most pain to the most participants.” Which will it be?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 18, 2016

Or at least on the blogs and in the mainstream media. It’s kind of amazing to me how two shitty weeks in the public markets can impact how every one thinks and talks about things. I know the early presidential campaign is impacting this.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

It’s an artifact of the publishing business that existed before “earned media” – blog posts, reviews, etc. I think we should be focusing on real earned media, real reviews, real substantive support, rather than marketing nonsense the industry has been pushing since the early 1900s.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2014

As we enter the time of year where every media-related thingy publishes it’s “best of 2014″ and “predictions for 2015″ lists, I simply pass on participating in all of them and read none of them. I’m not a predictor. enterprise software license sales) that is no longer trendy.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2011

As I was reading it, I kept coming up with alternate titles like Everything is Bullshit, The Macro is Irrelevant, Humans Don’t Reason Well, Common Sense Fucks Us Up, Predictions are Useless, and Attributing Things To Abstract Collections of Stuff Like Crowds, Markets, Companies, etc.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2011

Orbotix has some exciting announcements happening in the next 30 days; if you’ve been waiting for the right time to join a hot startup in Boulder, now is the time.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2012

There must have been a social media online course somewhere that told people “email all people you know with big twitter followings and ask them to tweet something out for you. But the social media online course (or consultant) forgot to explain that starting a tweet with an @ does a very significant thing.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2011

The web and social media are critical tools for any candidate. Every candidate will need our stuff and since over $8 billion dollars will be spent, even if we capture a tiny part of that market, we will create a huge company. The emails start off something like this. Over $8 billion dollars will be spent on the upcoming 2012 election.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

Specifically, at FG Press the author gets 50% royalty on all books sold (up from the traditional 15%) and we employ the latest technologies, promotions, and marketing efforts to help the author build a personal audience who they have a direct relationship with.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

Specifically, at FG Press the author gets 50% royalty on all books sold (up from the traditional 15%) and we employ the latest technologies, promotions, and marketing efforts to help the author build a personal audience who they have a direct relationship with.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 16, 2015

This will stop our city in its tracks and greatly exacerbate an already expensive housing market. Send it to your friends via email and social media. Once they do start reissuing permits, these initiatives will force the city to levy such high taxes and fees that development will effectively stop in Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

While plenty of tech bloggers were tossing around the word “bubble&# , I also noticed it among the mainstream media. If you are an entrepreneur, you can build a significant, powerful, sustainable business taking advantage of market expansion during the up cycle and consolidating your position during the down cycle.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2010

Vinnie gave me a copy of a book to give away to one of you, demonstrating his command of social media marketing. And there were a couple that were deliciously surprising and unexpected. I’ve decided to run a competition – the best haiku with the word “polymath&# in gets the book.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

Over the last decade, I’ve gotten to know Dan, watched as he’s built an incredible $6 billion market cap company headquartered in Boulder, while contributing relentlessly to the Boulder startup community. I sought to mimic his propensity to leverage social media. It’s great – and follows. ”, I pondered.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

The booming IPO market proved the model of investing in new companies, as some SBICs cash out at attractive levels. If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2011

In particular, some media and naysayers are emphasizing the wrong lessons to be learned from this incident. That doesn’t affect the quality of their cloud product directly, but given that they have lured customers with the claim that they do use it, this does impact our trust in relation to their marketing integrity.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2012

.” If you look at the Foundry Group portfolio , you’ll notice a lot of market leaders. After that there is a category of companies who might be market leaders, but it’s too early to tell as they are still very young. While some of them created entirely new markets, others entered into existing markets.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Some concerns in the media include: Legislation. in the late 2020s, just following the mass-market production of fully autonomous cars. Computational processing is likely another large component of the overall price, and it has a long history of exponential cost reduction. If costs come down, are there other barriers? What about cost?

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

My mom ( Cecelia Feld ) has had a huge positive impact on my life in many ways. I like to think that I’ve also had a huge positive impact on her life, although I’m sure there have been times that she wanted to hide in a closet from me and scream at the top of her lungs.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

From nothing to IPO in less than 18 months, a market cap of > $20 billion, followed by a 99% decline in the stock price post-bubble. In this case, however, the only VC who truly had conviction to get behind Akamai was Todd Dagres – then of Battery Ventures, now of Spark Capital. Akamai was an amazing pre-Internet bubble story.

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