Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Smaller equals faster in processor technology.). But manufacturing technology has proceeded to get smaller and smaller. Limits are overcome, worked around, or solved by switching technology.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

.” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

In the mean time here’s his reaction to the New York Times profile last week on Intellectual Ventures. Last week there was an article in the New York Times profiling Nathan Myhrvold and his company Intellectual Ventures ("IV"). What kinds of cool products and technologies would that money be used to develop?

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Feld Technologies worked with Allcom whenever we needed a network installed for a client. Soon after, Len called me and asked if I’d be interested in selling Feld Technologies to Sage Alerting. From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered. Len – I love you.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Or, if you want a business construct, vertically scaling would be adding more people in one location while horizontal scaling would be creating a bunch of new locations, optimally with a similar footprint to the previous locations. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). These two concepts are not mutually exclusive.

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MAY 26, 2021

It’s not going to show up as a scandal on the front page of the New York Times. And … we both just looked and the book is currently selling at #1 in both “Business Management Science” and “Business Technology Innovation.” This is indeed a simple example, and in isolation this is overthinking. Ahhh, that feels better.

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MARCH 6, 2018

But it’s also not the only place you can create technology companies. I’m sitting in a hotel in New York and, according to a recent article from Bloomberg, New York Will Never Be Silicon Valley. Over 100 years since its notional inception, it’s a fascinating and amazing ecosystem.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Over the past eighteen months I’ve gotten to know a number of people in the executive brand of our government, especially at the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council. By the way, I think it is awesomely cool that the CTO of the United States blogs on TechCrunch!

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FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response (New York Times). Apple Says the Government Bungled Its Chance to Get That iPhone’s Data (Wired). No, Apple Has Not Unlocked 70 iPhones For Law Enforcement (TechCrunch). Apple, FBI, and the Burden of Forensic Methodology (Zdziarski).

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MAY 26, 2021

It’s not going to show up as a scandal on the front page of the New York Times. And … we both just looked and the book is currently selling at #1 in both “Business Management Science” and “Business Technology Innovation.” This is indeed a simple example, and in isolation this is overthinking. Ahhh, that feels better.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2011

A post in the New York Times this morning asserted that Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law. It’s a short post, but the money quote is from Ed Lazowska at the University of Washington: “The rate of change in hardware captured by Moore’s Law, experts agree, is an extraordinary achievement.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2019

Glowforge launched that very campaign at a jam-packed World New York Maker Faire, where folks lined up for hours to get a glimpse at the shiny new machine. Over the past few years, you’ve seen me write about Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that made history with their crowdfunding campaign back in 2015.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Martin is running for Congress in Upstate New York (District 22) as an Independent. We met in 1991 when Martin had just started his company (TriNet – now a public company) and Feld Technologies (my first company) was a dozen people. I recently got a call from a long time friend, Martin Babinec.

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APRIL 4, 2014

PBC is an intense three-day program that educates and mentors active service members, Veterans and their spouses to innovate, build technology companies, and create jobs. The next PBC will be held at the Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York City from May 16 th to 18 th. Essentially, they get a mini Techstars experience.

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JUNE 4, 2020

– Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies. Crises usually accelerate real trends in society and technology; they don’t create or refute them. – Gary Kasparov. This a big change, one that will ripple through supply chains, housing, travel, technology, education, and health.

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APRIL 7, 2017

I’m sitting at the breakfast table at Len Fassler’s house in Harrison, New York drinking a cup of coffee and chewing on a bagel. The amount of energy he put into me, and his relationship with me, was unexpected by me when he bought Feld Technologies in 1993. It’s the summer of 2001. The NASDAQ peak is in the rear view mirror.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The Bright, Sustainable Future of Chicago’s Technology Ecosystem. When I reflect on where some of our investments are, they are in cities like Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Minneapolis, Boulder, Denver, Charlotte, Lexington, New York, and Boston.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Our experience with TechStars – starting in Boulder, but expanding to Boston, Seattle, and New York – helped us understand not just TechStars’ role and impact on a startup community, but what drives startup communities over the long term. Today, Nike announced their first Nike+ Accelerator program , powered by TechStars.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 12, 2013

That’s why this past February I joined with the Partnership for a New American Economy to join the March for Innovation , one of the largest virtual marches on Washington to promote smart immigration reform that will keep us competitive and help our economy grow. And we need your help!

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 29, 2013

Boulder/Denver joins the other six regions – Boston, Detroit, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle – and is now part of the broad and expanding coverage that Xconomy is providing on business, life sciences, and technology news.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2016

strong interest in, entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, and leadership. While Colorado is one of three states to have a program ( the others are Massachusetts and New York ) we are about to launch a few other states, including one I’m particularly excited about.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 13, 2017

An adapted essay from Noam Cohen new book The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball showed up several weeks in the New York Times in the article Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend. It’s here. When Web 2.0

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2015

. “a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money” This morning I read an article in the New York Times titled With Start-Ups, Greeks Make Recovery Their Own Business. When I started Feld Technologies, I referred to myself and my partner Dave as the founders of Feld Technologies.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2018

I loved this quote by Tristin Harris in the New York Magazine article The Internet Apologizes …. “We cannot afford the advertising business model. The price of free is actually too high. It is literally destroying our society , because it incentivizes automated systems that have these inherent flaws.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2010

It is so nice to be back in Boulder after my 10 hours trip home from New York yesterday that included a lot of time on tarmacs, a diverted landing in Colorado Springs, and an I-25 road trip. I love when technology and family cross over. I really want a personal portable teleportation machine.

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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). And it’s something that is magically enabled by the current state of technology – mobile, video, real-time social – a bunch of things have come together than make this work.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2016

I’m finally home after three solid weeks on the road which included Austin, Dallas, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. In my first company (Feld Technologies) my first large client was in LA (Bellflower Dental Group). I have a long relationship with LA.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Earlier this week I was in New York. We then got together and wandered over to Union Square Ventures where we had lunch with the USV partners and talked about the healthcare industry and how technology could radically alter it as well as the relationship between each of the different constituencies.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

It 1993, I sold my first company, Feld Technologies, to a company called Sage Alerting Systems (which, after several name changes, became AmeriData Technologies.) Len looked like a cross between a powerful New Yorker and Yoda – sharply dressed in his jacket and tie but short and with a friendly face weathered from experience.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Ive been helping create software and Internet companies for over 25 years, starting with my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1985 when I was in college. We’ve done this through our seed investments as well as through our activity at TechStars, starting in Boulder, then expanding to Boston, Seattle and New York.

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