Feld Thoughts

MAY 13, 2013

The Deming Center also partners closely with Silicon Flatirons and other CU organizations to put on events such as the New Venture Challenge, Productive Collisions, and annually hosts the regional Venture Capital Investment Competition for MBA students. It actively engages the community members of Boulder in order to accomplish this.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

As is our style, we participated, but we’re excited to have a new partner to join us, Madrona, and Petco in this fast growing adventure. They understood the different dimensions of the business and were laser focused on drivers of supply and demand in each market they operated. Some get it; many don’t.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

A little over a year ago, he joined Techstars full time as one of the three managing partners – the other two being David Cohen and Mark Solon. Brown’s reflections on the experience are detailed and demonstrates his incredible talents as an operator. It’s a delight to get to work with both of these guys.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

While I’d been a partner in Mobius from the beginning, I hadn’t really been engaged in managing the overall firm. While I was trying to be helpful in general to the firm and my partners, I didn’t like the way we were operating. For the really major decisions, I try them on for 30 days. Here’s an example.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2015

And entrepreneurship is the act of creating and operating the business. Note the and clause – you need to be the creator and the operator to be an entrepreneur, not just the operator. 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

AUGUST 24, 2017

On July 28th, my partner Jason told me that Matt Bencke, the co-founder and CEO of Mighty AI , had suddenly gotten a serious cancer diagnosis. Mighty AI’s weekly operations meeting would be getting started at 10:15, so I had a lot of calls to make.” It was around 9:10 Friday morning.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 27, 2016

I don’t know Lars, but know of him as the founder/CEO of SuccessFactors and now a partner at A16Z, and was curious after recently reading a Forbes article about Zenefits a few weeks ago titled ‘A Lot Of Things Went Wrong’: Lars Dalgaard On Zenefits Scandal. We strongly recommend them.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2015

” These deeply held beliefs tangibly define our values and give us a frame of reference to operate. ” Each of our funds is $225 million, we have four partners and no other investment staff, and we work out of the same office we’ve worked out of since we started in 2007.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 13, 2010

While I found the style and tempo to vary, Keith’s article rang true to me, especially when I talk to some of my ex-investment banking friends who didn’t make it through year three of their “advanced copy machine operation and presentation wrangling” skills.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 5, 2012

I think of values as the guiding principles or a code-of-conduct upon which a company was founded and which it operates on a daily basis. Values establish your company’s view of the world and determine how you treat others including employees, customers, partners, and investors. to add an extra level of scrutiny to your commitment.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2010

We recently invested in Triggit – my partner Seth blogged about our investment and the rise of real time bidding platforms and we put up a post about Triggit on the Foundry Group blog. More jobs – this time in San Francisco. Needless to say the technology sitting inside Triggit is what engineers would call a nice hard problem.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 15, 2019

In 2018, New Story partnered with ICON and developed the first 3D printer of homes designed to serve the families who need shelter most. This group of about fifty families partners with New Story to fund their operating expenses and give them the license to take calculated risks through new R&D projects.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 12, 2012

Every year my partners at Foundry Group and I go to CES. Many of the CE companies and products operate on an annual product cycle and this helps me understand what is going to this year, at which point I don’t have to think hard about it for another year (yeah – I pay attention – but I have a really useful context).

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2015

That is the goal of CEO shadowing: to put you in the shoes of another CEO, let you observe, ask questions, and form a rich and detailed mental model of how another company operates. We operated on tribal knowledge and had the benefit that everyone implicitly knew what the others were doing. What I learned.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Phil also totally groks entrepreneurship and is aggressively applying it to the vision, the curriculum, and the operations of CU Law. Phil Weiser, the Dean of the CU Law School, is a good friend. Following are some thoughts of his that recently appeared in an article in the ABA Journal titled Five initiatives that legal education needs.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

When the CEO prioritized either distributed or remote work and makes it part of the wiring of how the company operates, it’s effective. Cities in the US that have concentrations of technical, sales, or operational talent, usually because of one specific employer or a highly motivated university nearby, have been surprisingly effective.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

This is a draft post by Dave Jilk, a long time friend, business partner, and CEO of Standing Cloud. The primary implication is that there is a new risk to your data and your operations when you use multi-tenant online services. While the words are his, I agree 100% with everything he is saying here.

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