Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The second is that price of admission is an amazing product. Indulge me while I go on an amazing product rant from our portfolio. I’ve been using the product for sixty days along with their competitor’s product. Your mind simply explodes when you use this particular product.

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APRIL 25, 2012

The short answer – always be ready to demo your product – you never know when the President (or a key customer) is nearby. The guys at Orbotix showed up and got him to play around with a Sphero. Watch the video (it’s pretty awesome) and then I’ll tell you the story of how they made it happen.

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MARCH 27, 2016

I’ll be doing a one hour live chat on Product Hunt on Tuesday, 3/29 at 1pm PST. The post Tuesday 3/29 Live Chat on Product Hunt appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Join me and ask me anything you want about anything.

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JULY 23, 2015

I’ll be doing an AMA on Product Hunt’s new Book Channel on Friday 7/24 at 1130 AM PST. The post AMA on Product Hunt About Startup Communities appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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MARCH 22, 2015

If you are a technology product manager in Colorado, take a look at the new Colorado Product group. The first meetup is on 4/2/15 and features a talk from Adit Vaidya, Product Manager for Facebook Groups. The post 4/2/15: Colorado Product Management Meetup appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Announcements'

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JANUARY 20, 2015

“We have product/market fit.” ” “We are searching for product/market fit.” ” “We are raising this financing to find product/market fit.” ” “Our customer traction demonstrates product/market fit.” ” Product/market fit.

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AUGUST 17, 2014

Canada Forum on Mental Health and Productivity at her offices in Denver on 9/26. Canada Forum on Mental Health and Productivity appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Larissa is another example of a leader / CEO who has been open about depression, especially in the workplace, and we had a great conversation. Larissa is hosting the Sixth U.S./Canada

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2010

It’s titled Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product and is worth going and reading right now. Have a clear delineation between product tiers. Don’t be afraid to charge for your product. How about overlay features that you charge by the drink for? The freemium myth.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2010

I love when companies I’m an investor in use acquisitions to build out their product line. Rally has re-released the product (previous a $15 download) as a free product called Rally for the iPhone that tightly integrates with the Rally SaaS-based Agile software lifecycle environment.

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JULY 27, 2010

“People Product Market&# The Founders | TechStars Boulder | Episode 10 from TechStars on Vimeo. As a special bonus, there’s a cute clip of me near the end watching the incredible record tennis match between Isner and Mahut. And some funny running footage. And a glider.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

Dave had been spending most of his time managing the part-time developers, who were primarily working on future products, instead of billing hours to clients. Much of our revenue for the month had come from one highly productive though erratic undergraduate developer, Mike, who was working on a billable client project.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

When I was writing my first novel, Avogadro Corp , I would spend my most productive time writing in coffee shops. If you have the option to telecommute, it can be a great productivity enhancer. Minimum Viable Product. When you’ve reached the minimum viable product, it’s time to stop. Productivity writing'

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JUNE 9, 2021

Finance – Chief Financial Officer – Jack Sinclair People – Chief People Officer – Cathy Hawley Marketing – Chief Marketing Officer – Nick Badgett and Holly Ennerking Sales – Chief Revenue Officer – Anita Absey Business Development – Chief Business Development Officer – Ken Takahashi Customers (..)

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

First, did I care about / have affinity for the product? Next, were the entrepreneurs obsessed about their product? So, regarding the question of “do I care about / have affinity for the product of Mattermark”, the answer was a strong, unambiguous yes. But there’s nothing quite like experiencing it.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2013

ASC starts building product, but as they get into the thick of it, the team realizes executing on their vision is going to be extremely hard. Heads down on product, they say. Eventually early product demos start happening but they’re rough and the product looks very alpha. Seven months in, there is a beta product.

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MAY 28, 2019

Last summer they launched their flagship product, a dev kit called the Looking Glass. Their team was scrappy and had sold an impressive variety of volumetric display kits to fuel their R&D efforts, and since our human-computer interface investment theme is one of my favorites, we led their Series A round. Courtesy of Orthoscience.

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JULY 12, 2018

Over the past 25 years, I’ve invested in many startups that sell products to large enterprises. It was notable that several of the “leading” companies in the report introduced their products over a decade ago, well before the category being addressed in the report was even invented. The analyst didn’t behave like a customer.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

I haven’t even started to push anything into production. Maybe AppleTV will, maybe it won’t. At least my Kindle will be the same. That’s because I only have one Kindle. Nothing is going to look anything like this 20 years from now. The post Book: In the Beginning…Was the Command Line appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Now that Dick and Jane have added a CTO to SayAhh’s founding team, they’ve turned their full attention to working on their product. They also haven’t launched a product, so there is no corresponding “cost of goods sold” – the direct cost of delivering their product.

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JULY 8, 2013

high deploy rates), while simultaneously increasing the reliability, stability, resilience of the production environment. And that means increasingly fragile infrastructure in production. Furthermore, use the same build mechanism to build the Production, Test and Dev environments at the same time. puppet, chef, etc.)Furthermore,

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MARCH 19, 2014

The websites are usually thought of as simple extensions to the product themselves. Every hour invested in this marketing infrastructure comes directly out of the bandwidth available for product improvements. At some point (hopefully) the business starts growing and a professional marketer is brought on board. Total break down.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

Dave had been spending most of his time managing the part-time developers, who were primarily working on future products, instead of billing hours to clients. Much of our revenue for the month had come from one highly productive though erratic undergraduate developer, Mike, who was working on a billable client project.

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MAY 20, 2013

These are not your parents’ hardware products. MakerBot , FitBit , Orbotix , Sifteo , Modular Robotics and a slew of others have taught me that even though much of the business-side is similar to a software company, the product-side most definitely is not. Adding the plastic around the software is no short order.

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MAY 5, 2011

The first version of the product was based on an architectural approach that didn’t aptly satisfy all players in the ecosystem and wasn’t flexible enough. Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. The last three months have been pleasantly insane.

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OCTOBER 3, 2010

We felt confident that there was a large enough market for the product, so we took the plunge and decided to launch AgileZen as a startup. When we started working on AgileZen, our goal was to build a product that helped people work together to become more productive and that remains our focus today.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Finance – Chief Financial Officer – Jack Sinclair People – Chief People Officer – Cathy Hawley Marketing – Chief Marketing Officer – Nick Badgett and Holly Ennerking Sales – Chief Revenue Officer – Anita Absey Business Development – Chief Business Development Officer – Ken Takahashi Customers (..)

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2013

R/GA creates advertising and marketing products based in technology and design and has earned countless accolades over the years, including Advertising Age’s “Digital A-List” and “Agencies of the Decade.” They are the force behind the opening title sequence for 1978? Applications are open today and due October 11th.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The stretch until Thanksgiving is my most productive time of year. He described exactly how I feel this morning. The fall is my favorite season of the year. By labor day, I’m ready for summer to end.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Part of that vision became the agile software development products that Rally makes. He had a huge vision that started to be turned into practice when Tim Miller joined him as CEO about a year after he started the company. But Ryan’s vision was always bigger than that.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Our (now three) co-founders begin building out their product. Next week we will fast forward to when they have a beta product and they build a model to pitch to investors. The co-founders have savings to live off of and cash will be conserved by not having any salaries.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2023

In the interim years, dozens of products and startups have launched or used GlueCon as one of the venues for their early premieres. My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2010

We are planning to show our first product in mid July to a small company. If the product is successful I may actually be able to make a job transition over the next 6 – 8 months.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

In comparison, Nest is trying to make an enchanted object our of their new smoke detector product. So I’ll wait one product cycle, or at least until the beeping crushes my soul again. Then, they are about as hard as humanly possible to silence. They generate one emotion – anger. Not an enchanted object.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2014

Their first product will “reinvent the ball” through the creation of a robotic ball controlled by a smart phone. The first post I wrote about Orbotix included an aspirational phrase for what they were working on. Orbotix is creating a new game platform that combines common physical objects, smart phones, and a software marketplace.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 31, 2012

But the PalmPilot was a hugely successful and category changing product.). And Ford, Kia, Cadillac, Mercedes and Audi all have really nice products and prototypes and employ passionate HMI people. There’s no such thing anymore as “professional” equipment in music production, photography or film.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Myhrvold wants to create an entire economic category based on payments to entitles that don’t build, produce, sell, etc, any products, or create anything of value (i.e., They make no products. They apparently don’t funnel ideas to anyone else who makes products. Let’s internalize that for a second.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

After not seeing the word patent in my daily information routine for a few weeks, I saw it twice today – first in an article titled Turning Patents Into ‘Invention Capital’ (in the NY Times) and then in Region Sustains Robust Patent Production in the WSJ. Both stirred me up early this morning, but for different reasons.

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