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

JULY 17, 2013

I was interviewed recently in MIT Technology Review in an article titled It’s Up to You, Entrepreneurs. It’s part of a series they are doing titled The Next Silicon Valley. People talk about technology clusters. What’s the evidence that startup communities can happen outside of traditional technology hubs?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday. Now he is slated to enter Booth at the University of Chicago in the fall.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

While the meme that the only place to build a company is in Silicon Valley has softened, there’s still a strong belief that the best place to be if you are a first time entrepreneur is Silicon Valley. My argument is, and has never been, against Silicon Valley, but rather for the rest of the planet.

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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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JANUARY 22, 2013

Urban Airship, diversifying technologically and geographically, buys Silicon Valley startup Tello. I’m going to start paying more attention to this one. Related articles. Urban Airship, Tello and the Power of Community. Urban Airship Acquires Tello. In Praise of Push.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The technology focus will be about leveraging the success of the Nike+ FuelBand, Nike+ Running and NikeFuel to support digital innovation. will begin in March of 2013 and conclude in June with two investor demo days; one in Portland and one in Silicon Valley. That’s what the goal of the Nike+ Accelerator program is.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2010

the technology is its own character, eyes, ears, voice and face recognition, GPS, spy software and a wise-ass personality.? . the technology is its own character, eyes, ears, voice and face recognition, GPS, spy software and a wise-ass personality.?&#. Today’s book was Grumby by Andy Kessler. And it was just fucking awesome.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

The first came out of a set of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who said something like “CES is irrelevant – no one important is there and nothing interesting gets launched.” There were two memes going around that I heard about CES earlier this week.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

AppDirect’s innovative technology leads the industry, and the company’s values – humility, true north, intensity, ownership, and positive mental attitude – have helped shape a unique culture which continues to drive the company’s success.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. Martin is running for Congress in Upstate New York (District 22) as an Independent.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2010

Over the next two days I’ve got a meeting with each of my Colorado Senators ( Michael Bennet and Mark Udall ) as well as a summit at the White House led by Phil Weiser (Director of Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council), Aneesh Chopra (CTO of the US), and Vivek Kundra (CIO of the US).

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Recently, Vivek wrote a post titled Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have a Gender Problem that resulted from a research project he did with the National Center for Women & Information Technology (I’m chairman). I thought the post was excellent. The comments, however, were really enlightening to me.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I had barely crossed the threshold (Feld Technologies has 12 employees and was slightly bigger than $ 1m ) and for the first time as an entrepreneur I spent a concentrated chunk of time surrounded by 50 of my peers. I’m a believer that there is the potential for over a hundred entrepreneurial communities across the United States.

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