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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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With major media sites such as NYTimes.com joining the movement, now over half of all web requests are served securely to the browser. When you bring up Feld Thoughts in your browser, you should see something like the following: Pantheon , one of our portfolio companies, hosts my website and made this happen, in zero clicks.

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Relentlessly Turning Input Knobs To 0

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A week ago I read Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. Basically, I’ve turned down the input knobs on almost all real-time social media inputs to 0. While I haven’t deleted my social media accounts, I have turned all the inputs way down.

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We Make the Future We Invest In

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So it was sobering when, last week, Maker Faire / Make Media closed their doors for good. Companies like Glowforge, Formlabs, Sphero, littleBits, Modular Robotics, and others in our portfolio are the companies who are helping to drive this movement forward. And as a company, they have seen sales triple in just the last year.

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Get Ready For Q115 Fundraising Insanity

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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. We had several close last month and have some more in process.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

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Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.), Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market.

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CEO Invite to Sixth U.S./Canada Forum on Mental Health and Productivity

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While I won’t be able to attend because I’ll be in LA, I told Larissa that I’d invite the CEOs from the Foundry Group portfolio as well as my extended network. I know from conversations and our friend “social media” that many of you were impacted by Robin Williams’ recent suicide.

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A DevOps Tent Big Enough for Everyone

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If you are going to have a DevOps community media site, it is hard to imagine a better domain to for it to live at. Another one of our portfolio companies, VictorOps is a sponsor and VictorOps CEO Todd Vernon has a regular blog on the DevOps.com site. But media content is not the only mission.

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