Feld Thoughts

MAY 14, 2011

Fred Wilson had an excellent post up this morning titled Social Media’s Secret Weapon – Email. I completely agree that email is the key communications channel for social media and have written about this before in posts like 100% Click Through Rate , Email – The Original Social Graph and Email Is Still The Best Login.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 13, 2018

A few weeks ago I read Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. He makes a reasonable case (obviously with a lot of room to dispute individual points) that social media is “bad” in general and a source of concern. The second concern is that he conflates Google with social media.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This is most prominent in online systems, but increasingly software updates are automatic and frequent on mobile devices and even full computer systems. They didn’t just “grow up with social media,” they grew up with “social media that constantly changes.”

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2011

The web and social media are critical tools for any candidate. I received at least one email a day last week pitching a politics oriented web startup. 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 21, 2010

We recently invested in a Seattle company called BigDoor Media. By using a light weight API approach , BigDoor enables any non-game publisher to quickly integrate game mechanics such as points, badges, levels, leaderboards, virtual currency, and virtual goods into their web and mobile applications.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Virgin Media Accelerator (London). If you reflect on one part of Techstars – the accelerator programs – we’ve added the following new programs in 2015. Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin). Techstars IoT (NYC). Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel).

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