Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

My newest book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City , will ship around the end of the month. Between now and Sunday, if you pre-order a copy of Startup Communities, you will be entered into a random drawing. TechStars’ Feld Publishes Startup Community Book. Launching Startup Revolution.

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JANUARY 27, 2013

My newest book, Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur , that I wrote with my wife Amy Batchelor , is shipping. Between now and Saturday (2/2/13), if you order a copy of Startup Life , you will be entered into a random drawing. As a result, I’m activating Operation Win A Dinner With Us today.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. The essay follows. I think he totally nails it.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

He starts off with a very strong juxtaposition of thoughts around the importance of “the idea” to a startup. 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.

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JULY 31, 2013

I’m intensely proud of both the amazing startup community in Boulder as well as the many significant companies that have been – and are being – created in the little town of 100,000 people I call home. I sought to mimic his propensity to leverage social media. It’s great – and follows. ”, I pondered.

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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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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Sean Wise, my co-author for my next book, Startup Opportunities , is a professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. March 26th: Toronto with Ryerson Digital Media Zone. Each of the organizations is an integral part of their startup community. Books startup opportunities startup revolution' Register here.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2011

I received at least one email a day last week pitching a politics oriented web startup. The web and social media are critical tools for any candidate. The emails start off something like this. Over $8 billion dollars will be spent on the upcoming 2012 election.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

And phrases like “social media marketing&# and “marketing spend&# rarely surface in discussions, and when they do I vomit a little in my mouth. were a key part of every startup plan. Of course marketing is a key part of the success of these companies.

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JULY 10, 2018

It also generated a few public ones, including the link to the article What is the problem with social media? Jordan asserts that the problem with social media can be broken down into four foundation problems. And I doubt I would have found it scanning my social media feeds. by Jordan Greenhall which was extraordinary.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Boomer hedgies getting crushed by young folks self-organizing in social media. Only rich people can invest in startups. I’m more interested in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th order effects instead of the financial and market dynamics. For example, from Fred’s post. The generational aspect of this is important. But hang on.

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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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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. While in the book, we apply it to startup communities, I’ve internalized it across any complex system. “ But how?

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JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. Maybe you’re thinking about startups to invest in, or making decisions about where to place resources in your company. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016.

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JUNE 19, 2012

This week I’ll be kicking off the second day of Big Boulder with a talk about how the Boulder startup community has come to be what it is today. To that end, they’ve brought together some of the biggest players from social media publishers including Facebook, Twitter, Klout, LinkedIn, StockTwits, Disqus, Tumblr and WordPress.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

This is a bidirectional experiment for us – we are helping Sympoz launch their new set of programs for startups and entrepreneurs while continuing to experiment with new forms of media around education on a topic we know well. My class, How To Light a Spark & Set Your Startup on Fire , is FREE for a limited time.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

The media wants hero stories. The most glorious media story arc is rags to riches to rags with redemption back to riches. Great startup communities work the same way. I’m just one of the many leaders in the Boulder Startup Community. It also wants goat stories.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

.” A bitter person could expand this to mean all of media. Instead of working on the final draft of the Second Edition of Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job (being published by Wiley in Q117) I’ve been surfing the web, looking at Twitter and Facebook, responding to email, and drinking apple cider.

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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’ve got two books in process: Give First and Startup Communities 2. I have completely failed at this.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Reset Social Media : While I’ve always been a broadcaster on social media (primarily Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn), my consumption and engagement patterns ebb and flow. I’m writing daily again and working on several books (the 2nd Edition of Startup Opportunities and the 1st Edition of Give First.)

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JUNE 26, 2014

There are hundreds of startups working on a wide variety of things, many of which we are systematically incorporating into our infrastructure at FG Press. 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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APRIL 29, 2015

Kyle and his team went through Techstars Boulder in 2012 before moving back to Atlanta and being leaders in energizing the Atlanta startup community. After he posted it, he sent around the link to a few prominent people in the tech media. Interestingly, the media wrote more this time. ” I found that fascinating.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Yesterday I talked briefly about taking a break from media. When I wrote Startup Communities in 2012, I came up with a concept I call The Boulder Thesis. While I’ve learned a lot about startup communities over the past four years, my fundamental thesis has not changed.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. There is a huge capital supply gap for companies that are in between early startups and companies that are successful growth companies. It continues to be highly dependent on company, stage, and location.

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JUNE 26, 2014

There are hundreds of startups working on a wide variety of things, many of which we are systematically incorporating into our infrastructure at FG Press. 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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DECEMBER 2, 2017

Reset Social Media: I completely and successfully reset my social media interactions. I had a few stretches where I wrote, but they weren’t sustained, and I didn’t really make any progress on either GiveFirst or Startup Communities 2. Writer : I’m going to write GiveFirst and Startup Communities 2 in v52.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2016

After the election, I took a break from social media. Some of that writing has appeared on this blog – and will continue to appear here and on two other blogs – Venture Deals and Startup Revolution , both of which have lain fallow for a while.

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JULY 12, 2011

As Jason and I are about to launch our new book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist I’ve been once again thinking about communication and promotion via social media. And my investment in Gnip is showing me the continued geometric expansion of social data across an ever increasing number of platforms.

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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. And, if you are at SXSW, go hunt down the Orbotix gang and participate in their “ Where are my balls? &# contest to win a free Sphero.

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MARCH 5, 2015

As my newest book, Startup Opportunities: Know When To Quit Your Day Job , has begun shipping on Kindle (order now and give me feedback, leave a review) I’ve been thinking a lot about writing lately. Startup Opportunities took 18 months to write and most of the slowness was me, not my co-author Sean Wise. Is the book really dead?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It’s almost entirely tech related, as I stay away from mainstream media during the week (e.g. I’d categorize it as the collision between optimist and pessimist, startup and already started up, and offense vs. defense. However, they all shared one thing in common – the message and thoughts were clear.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

While I periodically post on Work-Life Balance, Amy and I are working on a book called The Startup Marriage. It’ll also help me better understand yet another vector of media (in this case microsubscriptions) that I think is going to be increasing interesting and important in the future.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

The second one is about EventVue and is titled TechStars post-mortem: Could Boulder startup Next Big Sound suffer same fate as EventVue? And on Monday I’m going to interview Greg Maffei and Michael Zeisser of Liberty Media for Entrepreneurs Unplugged. I never get tired of talking to entrepreneurs.

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JULY 7, 2010

So what’s the answer, as more and more software patents are issued, and more and more startups and small businesses are sued into nothingness? Now that startups have to live in fear of the uncertainty of the U.S. startups will begin locate some portion of their operations abroad. The outlook is bleak. At minimum, U.S.

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APRIL 25, 2011

In particular, some media and naysayers are emphasizing the wrong lessons to be learned from this incident. Enterprises have data center downtime, and back in the day when startups had to build their own, so did they. This benefit is a big one for capital-efficient lean startups, but on the whole the approach is risky and suboptimal.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

We talked for a few minutes and the deep pleasure we were both feeling about being alive and part of the Boulder startup community was apparent. I woke up late this morning (7am) and wandered into my kitchen to see Mark Solon on his laptop preparing for a run (Mark and Pam stayed at my condo in Boulder this week).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

US Median Income – 1947 to 2007 – 20th, 40th, 60th, 80th, 95th Percentiles (Photo credit: Wikipedia). I was in a board meeting yesterday at BigDoor where we were benchmarking our current numbers against a couple of recent studies on SaaS-based companies including the 2011 Pacific Crest Private SaaS Company Survey.

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