Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2011

Will you sign an NDA first? Me: I don’t sign NDA’s. Since you won’t sign an NDA, you agree that by reading beyond this paragraph you are agreeing not to share my idea with anyone, forward this email to anyone, or discuss the idea without my consent. Entrepreneur: My idea is special.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2012

but they’re looking to understand details that should never be discussed with outsiders, even if there is a NDA in place. They pay compliments, they smile, they flatter, etc., As is often the case with being at a hot tech company that’s pushing the envelope on various fronts, it’s a double-edged sword.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

We gave them to him (no NDA required – we didn’t even know, or care, what an NDA was) and he started going through them. Eventually Len came in, apologized for keeping us waiting, and sat down to business. He’d asked us to bring our financing statements so he could look at them to come up with an offer.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2015

He expresses intellectual dominance from the very first instant you meet him and reinforces it aggressively with the NDA signing. He’s the smartest and richest guy living in a castle of his own creation while building the future. He’s the nerds’ man. Which leads us right back to the gender and sexuality thing.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2015

You should probably sign an NDA. Here are my suggestions for how to get the most out of CEO shadowing: Find a CEO at a company that is approximately 1-2 years ahead of yours (if you are $1M ARR, then $5-10M; if you are $10M, then $30-$60M). Ideally this is a CEO you admire, and one you already have a relationship with.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2011

Several weeks ago, I was contacted again and let into (under NDA) an early adopter program to test out the new feature. Impressively, Google Entreprise Support responded immediately to me. I learned that this issue was high on the priority list and being worked on. Magically my contact limit was raised and everything worked as planned.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2012

Following is something that happens to me on a regular basis, with a new and exciting twist. I’m telling this story both to vent (maybe I’m grumpy today – I don’t know) as well as for an object lesson on how not to interact with a VC, or at least with me. First – the normal part.

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