Feld Thoughts

MARCH 18, 2010

Gist just announced that they have acquired Learn that Name and incorporated it in the Gist iPhone app. Learn that Name was a Startup Weekend Seattle project from a few months ago. The idea for Learn that Name came from Eric Koester, a lawyer in Cooley’s Seattle office. There are a lot of fun connections here for me.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Since then I’ve been systematically modifying my social networking behavior and cleaning up my various social graphs. I made two major changes to the way I use various social networks. I then unfriend the people whose name I don’t recognize or who I don’t want to consume in my news feed.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Think about it this way – if Facebook had been sued on a social networking patent within a year of its existence, would it be around today? That’s the name of the game. How many great companies have been sunk by the costs of patent litigation? It’s doubtful.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I’ve been obsessed with the notion of email as the ultimate social network for a while. I wrote a post in 2007 titled Social Networks In Obvious Places that catalyzed me to thing harder about this as an investor. If I searched by name, all the dupes came up. I noticed that I had two entries for him.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2012

I first thought of raving fans when I read Ken Blanchard’s book by the same name in 1993 when I was CEO of Feld Technologies (my first company). On Tuesday, we realized that we have made several investments yesterday that have a concept in common – that of raving fans. The message rang true for me then and still does today.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Through a series of conversations, Jane and Dick have come up with the idea to develop a social network tailored to the medical community. Oh, and you’ll notice that they don’t yet have a name for their company. Next week, we will address how Jane and Dick put proper accounting systems in place.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2015

But he’s probably most well-known for The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal which was the book that the movie The Social Network was based on. It looks like you used real names? This is just the world we live in. There are CDC interviews in the book, but are they real?

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