Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2021

They are a by-product of markets. Boomer hedgies getting crushed by young folks self-organizing in social media. And start addressing the real economic issues that exist on main street, not wall street. Monetary policy is not the answer. Fiscal policy is. That won’t stop more Game Stops from happening. But hang on.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2020

I was going to take a week off the grid next week, but I’ve got a bunch of podcasts and media recordings to do for my upcoming book The Startup Community Way. I also want to continue spending time in the new Startup Community community , which now has over 2,000 people in it and is growing and self-organizing at a rapid clip.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.), There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital. while none of the non-Silicon Valley regional firms were long-term successful as regional firms.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2014

Tomorrow, I’m trying out Pubble ‘s product – a Q&A widget that leverages the standard social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) but lives where ever you want it to live. I’ll be answering questions live tomorrow (4/24) at 1:00pm MT. Tweet with #askbfeld to ask me a question. Check it out below.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 24, 2017

My favorite and most productive time of the year is from Memorial Day to Labor Day. While this is mostly writing, it also includes deeper work for specific companies, especially around product and product strategy. I’m not looking at social media (although I am still broadcasting.) Basically, summertime.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2018

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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Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2017

The goal of the conference is to get together professionals in marketing, media, customer intelligence, and other roles which focus on knowing and serving their customers better. While this is not a new idea, we are at another inflection point in the development of tools, technology, products, and processes around this.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We are lucky to be investors in a bunch of companies creating amazing new products. One of them, Oblong , as been working on spacial computing since John Underkoffler’s early research in the 1990′s at the MIT Media Lab. Product demo makerbot mezzanine oblong Sales' Don’t waste it.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It’s another of our investments that traces its roots to the MIT Media Lab. But it’s the first company we’ve invested in that did a promotional video for their product (the Synth Kit ) with Reggie Watts. We recently invested in littleBits. And yet another investment in New York. And yet another investment in New York.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 18, 2012

If you’ve been wondering about how to effectively manage your SEO and monitor your social media, today’s Amazing Deal will get you going and at low, low, price (ok – I couldn’t resist – I just love to say low, low price.). Normally three months of PRO service is $198, so this deal saves you $99.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

I’m always intrigued on how mainstream media presents new innovations like Sifteo in a five minute segment. I find the Sifteo product – and the Sifteo founders – to be amazing. Having played extensively with the beta version of the Sifteo product, I’m optimistic that they are on this path.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2016

” A bitter person could expand this to mean all of media. What’s that product you put on your hair?” A snarky person could call the title of this post “the tagline for Facebook and Twitter.” My mailman likes to banter, and so do the guys at Lloyd’s Automotive and the cabdrivers. So what’s going on with you?

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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. Send them examples for them to tweet, including a link to your product, site, or whatever you are promoting.” ” Ok – that’s cool.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2011

Several of the companies we’ve invested in are launching products at CES this year. Sifteo is another HCI investment with its roots in the MIT Media Lab, joining Oblong and EmSense in this part of our portfolio. The first one up is Sifteo. We invested in Sifteo in May 2010 along with our friends from True Ventures.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

However, it’s driven by an obsessive focus on the customer and the product, rather than a “marketing budget&# or “marketing initiative.&# And phrases like “social media marketing&# and “marketing spend&# rarely surface in discussions, and when they do I vomit a little in my mouth.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2020

Every entrepreneur continues to iterate on their original product, and Brad is no exception. He and his co-author, Ian Hathaway, have combined deep experience with rigorous, intensive research and analysis to create a framework for this necessary path forward.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The media is aggressively negative presumably in the quest for getting readership. They focus relentlessly on their products, their customers, and their people. Whenever we are in the upswing of an entrepreneurial cycle, like we are right now, I start seeing all kinds of weird stuff appear. Entitlement behavior runs rampant.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

If an e-retailer wants to sell ebooks alongside any of their products on their own site, they can now do so with Bookshout. If a media company wants all of their largest brands to provide ebooks, each brand can build its own community and stay connected around ebooks.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2013

Ideas_Matter: The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. I self published some content (my blog) and contributed to traditional print and online media. He starts off with a very strong juxtaposition of thoughts around the importance of “the idea” to a startup.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

If an e-retailer wants to sell ebooks alongside any of their products on their own site, they can now do so with Bookshout. If a media company wants all of their largest brands to provide ebooks, each brand can build its own community and stay connected around ebooks.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Reset Social Media: I completely and successfully reset my social media interactions. It feels comfortable to type that, as I want to write each of these books and can project that my emotional satisfaction around both the process and the completed product will be high. before including something in the 2%.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2011

When I extend this to my overall information consumption pattern, I realize that a lot of signal is once again getting lost in the noise, especially around the RSS feeds that I try to read regularly versus the endless amount of web media that is now distributed by RSS.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2011

Gnip is currently delivering over a half billion social activities per day to almost all the top social media monitoring firms. On Monday, the company announced a much anticipated product improvement that allows existing customers to open multiple connections to Premium Twitter Feeds on their Gnip data collectors.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2017

While I’m managed to stay off social media and read a lot more than watch TV, I massively underestimated the amount of transactional activity I’d have this summer. I had full intentions of making this shift around Memorial Day and sustaining it until Labor Day. I have completely failed at this.

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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. Instead, spend your energy creating amazing products, thrilling your customers, building an awesome organization, and living your life. Always remember that one day you too will be dead.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It’s almost entirely tech related, as I stay away from mainstream media during the week (e.g. While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products. We believe it would be in the best interest of everyone to step back and consider the implications.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

That was a huge miss on my part, as I’ve found that I love to play around with physical hardware products and electronics as an adult. Post something on social media as part of their #MakingChangemakers campaign. And, I love to invest in companies that make hardware that makes physical stuff, especially for kids.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I saw someone recently describe social media in its current state as a doomsday machine, and I think that’s not far off. Just in a general sense of its role in our daily lives, and where that concept of the Miasma came from for you. Neal Stephenson: I ended up having a pretty dark view of it, as you can kind of tell from the book.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

The fiction that strong patent rights lead to more domestic VC investment is highly damaging and utterly false in software, an industry where low capital intensity and low barriers to entry make product and user acquisition, not “IP,” king. The tax situation and cost of living in, say, South America, is much better than in the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Our first project was Feld Technologies reselling (not very successfully) a software product called DataRoute that David wrote for his father’s law firm. I met David Cowan in 1988 when he was an undergraduate at Harvard and I was a graduate student at MIT. We became friends and regulars at Maven’s Deli in Harvard Square.

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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 19, 2014

Some concerns in the media include: Legislation. One rule of thumb I learned upon entering the technology industry was that it takes seven years, on average, for new technology to go from laboratory proofs to sellable product. in the late 2020s, just following the mass-market production of fully autonomous cars. What about cost?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2012

And, if you look at some of the successful companies we have had from our previous investing at Mobius Venture Capital, you’d see market leaders like Postini, Return Path, FeedBurner, Rally, Stratify, NewsGator, and Sling Media. Change the customer, change a product focus, change the distribution channel, or change the partner dynamic.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, LinkSmart , has come out of stealth mode and unveiled its product, Total Link Management and $4.7M in financing led by Foundry Group. My partner Seth Levine sits on the board and wrote about his view of LinkSmart.

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