Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

There’s a final part on The Future of Fractional Executive Work with a chapter by a different leader for each area above.

Fractional CTO 195

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 195

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 23, 2010

She then shows an example of how Oblong’s “common operating picture&# works in a real logistics application. From there Mary Ann gets into “Pools & Proteins&# and starts talking about the architecture and design philosophy of g-speak and how it works.

Operations 122

Operations Java HTML Architecture 122

Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Over the years, I’ve come to believe with moral certainty that everyone needs DevOps now, especially software startups where the successful execution of Development and IT Operations preordain success or failure. Act I begins with IT Operations, where we’re supporting a large, complex revenue generating application. with one step.

Phoenix 175

Phoenix Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 175

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Ben Huh, the founder/CEO who I adore and love working with, send out a powerful email about how he’s approaching Cheezburger’s next stage of growth, and how he’s thinking about building the business operating system. I’m kicking off the process of building the business Operating System for Cheezburger.

Operations 157

Operations Technical Review Metrics Email 157

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

There’s a final part on The Future of Fractional Executive Work with a chapter by a different leader for each area above.

Fractional CTO 70

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 70

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 9, 2023

We’ve made this an operating principle at Foundry. I believe that boards with too many investors, without operator voices, are not what an early-stage or growth company needs. I’ve written about this before, and it’s covered extensively in my book Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors.

Curation 162

Curation Early Stage Hosting Portfolio 162

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

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Colorado 168

Colorado Fractional CTO Silicon Valley Cofounder 168

Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2017

A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. “Cyberspace. Unthinkable complexity.

Technical Review 135

Technical Review Government Operations Design 135

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Specifically, is an expense an operating expense (generally speaking, spend on a good or service that is consumed immediately) or a capital expense (spend on an asset that will be used up more gradually over time)? Capital vs. Operating). Subtracting the expenses from the revenues provides a forecast of cash flow from operations.

Revenue 127

Revenue Balance Sheet Forecast Software Review 127

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 11, 2016

We came up with a very simple operant conditioning loop framework. Any user that doesn’t is unhealthy and gets an operant conditioning action, which in this case is an email with instructions on how to create a record. If they don’t, they get the operant conditioning action, stay at day three, and are now in category b.

Management 166

Management Conversion Framework Operations 166

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Every time a marketing team works with a web design firm, there is the usual painful and broken handoff between the outside agency and the technical operations of the client which culminate on launch day. So many things have to go right for your launch to be flawless: server configuration, load testing, and deployment.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Portfolio Web Design 70

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

operates at seven 9s reliability. Starting from basic use cases, we architected a new, decoupled system from scratch, and chose one component to implement from scratch. It corresponds roughly to 1/6 of the existing system. In two months we were able to build a new service that: scales to 3x the load with 1/4 the servers.

Agile 134

Agile Software Developers Software Development Architecture 134

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It’s important to realize that each of the TechStars Network member programs will be locally owned and operated. TechStars will still run programs that it owns and operates in Boulder, New York, Boston, and Seattle, but we’ll continue to aggressively expand the overall network across the US as well as the world.

America 149

America Fractional CTO Startup United States 149

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Notwithstanding the disappointing forecast for Q418 , Amazon’s recent operating performance has been spectacular. While Revenue Growth YOY has been strong, the real story has been YOY growth in Operating Income. The AWS numbers are remarkable to me – their YOY growth is 46% and their operating income is about 30%.

Forecast 119

Forecast B2B Stock Revenue 119

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 14, 2010

If you are a company operating in one of our themes , don’t ever hesitate to reach out to me if you think you might fit with a company we’ve already invested in – you never know where the conversation might lead. Both companies have detailed blog posts about the deal – Welcome AgileZen! and We’ve joined Rally Software.

Agile 115

Agile Acquisition Software Developers Software Development 115

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 24, 2010

Fortunately they are driving hard toward that and we expect a Q3 product release that will start bringing Oblong’s g-speak spatial operating environment to the masses. It’s one thing to look at what Oblong is building (as in the TED Video below); it’s a whole different experience to actually get your hands on it.

Hiring 110

Hiring HTML Software Developers Software Development 110

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

We believe we’ve mastered operant conditioning through the use of visible metrics associated with actions individual users take. .” We’ve taken Peter Drucker’s famous quote “‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” to an absurd extreme in the tech business.

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Flash Metrics Social Media 126

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

He was a former Wall Street analyst with no operating or investment experience, who became a VC by teaming up with operator LJ Sevin. While Ben may well have been among the best, in the early 1980’s Ben was brand new to the industry. Even many newcomers with little real experience were quite successful.

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The book itself is linear through time, but the octopuses in the book don’t feel like they are necessarily operating in a time-linear fashion. As I read The Soul of an Octopus , I kept flashing back to Arrival. The protagonist (the author Sy) hints at this but doesn’t fully embrace it.

Flash 212

Flash Operations 212

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Sadly, the America Invents Act , which seeks to provide the Patent Office with tools to operate better and passed recently, does precious little to address the patent litigation mess. Today, we are experiencing a similar threat to innovation with patents playing the role of “weapons of mass destruction.”

Software Engineering 143

Software Engineering Software Government America 143

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 9, 2013

He defines values as “the guiding principles or code-of-conduct” that inform a company’s daily operations, whereas vibe is “the emotional side of the company … highly influenced by outside factors.” Gnip COO Chris Moody explains this distinction really well when he talks about values vs. vibe.

Part-Time VPE 153

Part-Time VPE Hiring Engineer Portfolio 153

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2020

Today’s post is from Ruben Porras , who is a Techstars alum (Director of Operations at CreatorBox.) For the foreseable future, I’ll highlight and amplify one at the beginning of each post I do, in case you are interested. He wrote Black Lives Matter. The country, collectively, has grieved five times in 60 years.

Channel 159

Channel Operations Venture Capital 159

Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2018

All decisions and scoring were left to vendor claims (also known as “marketing”) while operational aspects of the customer, and how the various products addressed them, were ignored. This eliminated the opportunity for the analyst to understand the customer’s perspective and to compare and contrast the different solutions being evaluated.

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Warrant PR Portfolio 73

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 17, 2017

And still others are profitable and have realized significant operating leverage in the past two quarters that they want to continue. A company with $10m+ of revenue that is growing at 50% or more can often get profitable within 12 months if it focuses on its operating costs. I agree that it’s a feature.

PR 70

PR Operations .Net Cost 70

Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

Gnip has been adding customers at rate that any investor would be proud of, is executing flawlessly on the product and operations side as it scales up, and is posting month over month growth numbers that put it in the “they are killing it&# category. His one-year CEO anniversary is approaching, and things are going great.

CTO Hire 131

CTO Hire Cofounder Architecture Product Development 131

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 30, 2022

Martina Lauchengco and Heather Hiles are long-time operators turned VCs who have also been through many cycles. Fred Wilson has been through this many times, and his post on Amy and my 29th anniversary in Staying Positive is a wonderful perspective.

IPO 139

IPO Operations Entrepreneur Marketing 139

Feld Thoughts

MAY 15, 2020

Energize Colorado , working with Colorado’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), has just released business templates that offer best practices, direction, and information on how businesses can restart operations safely and effectively.

Colorado 116

Colorado Programming Operations Employee 116

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 5, 2019

If you have an office in Denver, just five miles away from you is a food bank operating out of a warehouse month to month just so it can help anyone who comes through their doors.

Denver 92

Denver Campaign Community Cost 92

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

To become a member, each accelerator must meet the following strict criteria: Operate a 3-6 month long program. Becoming a member in the GAN is not easy, but neither is operating a quality accelerator program. We’ve maintained a high quality across the membership while expanding the network by being selective.

Global 179

Global Networking United States Seed Money 179

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 26, 2021

If this is interesting to you, please consider making a cash donation to support the Media Archaeology Lab ‘s operations. If you want to see the full poem by bpNichol, here it is on Youtube. If you have vintage computers you’d like to donate, drop me an email.

Audio 144

Audio Media Acquisition Video 144

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2019

In addition, as he looked around for books on sales for the founders going through Techstars Austin, while he found plenty of sales in general, he couldn’t find a great one addressing the tactical and operational side of building your sales strategy and process from day zero. So he wrote it.

Early Stage 123

Early Stage Austin Sales Venture Capital 123

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2019

In these conversations, the question of how I shifted from “operator” to “investor” inevitably comes up. I straddled the operator / investor world until 2001 when the Internet bubble burst and my work world exploded into tiny pieces that collected into a huge mountain of s**t that I had to work through.

LP 108

LP Angel Investor Cofounder Leadership 108

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2017

Instead, I, like many of my colleagues (investors, board members, founders, and CEOs), operated in a state of blissful denial until everything blew up. Instead, I should have paid attention to the message, thought about it, and taken appropriate action. I learned that the markets reward growth until they don’t.

Internet 162

Internet Revenue .Net Operations 162

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2010

While you may not agree with his mappings, the general construct is incredibly powerful when you think about creating a company that operates on top of a web service (or platform company.). He specifically breaks down which government he thinks Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Craigslist look like.

Leadership 125

Leadership Government DC .Net 125

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2017

Others are entrepreneurs / operators raising a VC fund. The operators say we know how to run businesses and help the CEOs that way. Maybe there’s a thousand. Many of them are angels raising a VC fund. A few are existing VCs who are starting a new firm. The angels say look at the deals we’ve done and the networks we have.

Differentiation 147

Differentiation Later Stage Equity Founder 147

Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Friends from the campaign went on to run Obama’s Internet operation. Barack Obama would not be president today without the path the Dean web team blazed. Knowing this has permanently altered the way I view my work. You’d have a hard time making the case that Obama could have won without their help.

Vermont 165

Vermont Startup Campaign Virginia 165

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Under the DMCA, Internet companies are not required to architect their offerings in any particular manner to prevent possible copyright infringement; rather, they enjoy a “safe harbor” from secondary liability provided they comply with a “notice-and-takedown” provision that operates after-the-fact.

Colorado 150

Colorado Internet Intellectual Property United States 150