Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 26, 2021

Last week I participated in a virtual tour of the Media Archaeology Lab. I believe the Media Archaeology Lab is now one of the largest collections of working vintage computers. When you open your preferred video streaming software (Zoom, OBS, Twitch), the converter will show up as one of your camera options.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

Most of the companies we invest in release software at least once a month. I’ve seen things like help systems, new web sites, better customer support processes, better management of social media activity, and lots of business process stuff created and implemented during hackathons. Some release weekly, or even daily.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

Seeing the reaction to Bilski, what has struck me is how surprised and disappointed some people are with the weak will of the Supreme Court to act to limit the damage that software patents are causing, and will keep causing, to innovation in the U.S. Software innovation continues, by the way, in spite of the patent system, not because of it.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. This is what I mean by “forget about trying to predict advancements in software and just look at the hardware trend”.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. Virgin Media Accelerator (London). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 6, 2010

On Monday, 10/11/10 from 6:15pm to 7:30pm I’ll be interviewing Greg Maffei (CEO of Liberty Media) and Michael Zeisser (SVP of Liberty Media) as part of the Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged series.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Pogoplug is in our Digital Life theme and has a lot of conceptual similarities to our previous investment in Sling Media (now part of EchoStar). We’ve been investors in the company for about a year and it has been a blast working with the team.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Pogoplug is in our Digital Life theme and has a lot of conceptual similarities to our previous investment in Sling Media (now part of EchoStar). We’ve been investors in the company for about a year and it has been a blast working with the team.

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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.), “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.” By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” This isn’t true.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2012

By now the blogosphere, twitterverse, and even mainstream media is abuzz with the absurd decision that Yahoo has made to sue Facebook over ten software patents with the assertion that Facebook’s entire business is based on Yahoo’s patented inventions. Software patents have the same polarizing dynamic that SOPA/PIPA had.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It’s another of our investments that traces its roots to the MIT Media Lab. It’s another one that mixes hardware and software in a delightful way that is part of our human computer interaction theme. We recently invested in littleBits. It’s also another investment we are making with our friends from True Ventures.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 1, 2010

Fortunately, I have a blog, but I’ll wait a few more days and see if I can get someone in the traditional media to care. Decision on Software Patentability? “They had a chance to address a serious and deep issue surrounding innovation in the software industry. Tags: Patents bilski software patents.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2014

Some concerns in the media include: Legislation. The ready availability of these consumer-grade autopilots suggests that navigation in open air by software is no more challenging (and may be less so) than navigating ground-level streets. If costs come down, are there other barriers? Will self driving cars be legal?

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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. enterprise software license sales) that is no longer trendy. I’m not a predictor.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

It’s incredible to me that Congress would take seriously anything that censors the Internet and the American public but in the last few weeks PIPA and SOPA have burst forth with incredibly momentum, largely being underwritten by large media companies and their lobbyists.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Even more excitingly, they are covering a wide range of companies – some deep tech, social media, health care informatics, robotics, and ecommerce. We’ve also got some fun surprises on new mentors for 2011 in Boston that match up with these segments that we’ll be announcing soon.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

Somehow – perhaps because of the pernicious influence of large media companies on the government’s activities – rights to your digital data are taking a backseat to any and all attempts to enforce the copyright laws. If the provider of the software has a problem, it doesn’t matter because you are running it yourself.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2016

Software should be able to solve this for us. Some of the drivers of the new Skepticism are all the problems with media, climate change, and probably some other things I’m not thinking of.” It appears that whenever Google talks about working on ranking based on trustworthiness anti-science advocates freak out about it.

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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.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 12, 2015

The MIT Media Lab was created at the same time – opening in 1985 – and there was a revolution at MIT around AI and computer science. So while I didn’t study at LCS or the Media Lab, I was deeply influenced by what was going on around me.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Several of the stops were regularly hang outs of mine between 1983 and 1995 most notably #10 (Miracle of Science) and #11 (Toscanini’s) but also including #5 (MIT Media Lab), #6 (Muddy Charles Pub), #7 (MIT Lobby 7), and #8 (Central Square and the Necco Factory – back when they made Necco wafers.).

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

Howard was at Level 3 at the time – they had acquired his previous company Corporate Software (which I was an investor in) – and he knew Dan through that experience. I sought to mimic his propensity to leverage social media. I was drawn to his unique ability to promote ideas, create awareness, and fuel momentum.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

But, most of it was in my mind, which I why I ended up being a software version of that kid. Post something on social media as part of their #MakingChangemakers campaign. Watch the following one minute video and ponder whether or not you were that kid (or have one of those kids.). I was totally that kid. Share the video above.

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