Feld Thoughts

JULY 20, 2012

I’ll be discussing the broken software patent system with Jason Schultz and Parker Higgins. In the mean time, if you are interested in the ongoing saga of the broken software patent system, join me in an hour to discuss it more. I’m on a Google Hangout today at 1pm Pacific time hosted by the EFF.

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MAY 3, 2011

Boulder is full of software engineers, but we need more. If you are a software engineer, send ryanwanger at gmail a note containing the following: 1. A lot more. If you don’t know about Boulder Startup Week, take a look at the killer agenda.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

We’ve shifted into a new zone in the world of software patent stupidity. Last week, Paul Allen sued 11 major software companies , including Google, over four patents that were granted to his now defunct Interval Research think tank. Tags: Patents software patents. Much of the early commentary has already been said.

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MARCH 23, 2019

I’m been looking around for software to help me manage an increasing number of affinity networks. The post Software for Affinity Networks appeared first on Feld Thoughts. So far I’ve tried a bunch of stuff and have ended up back at email groups, which is the least common denominator. Any suggestions out there?

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AUGUST 22, 2012

I regularly get emails and have discussions with entrepreneurs who are on the receiving end of a software patent lawsuit. If you don’t believe me, read the latest rant from a young entrepreneur on the receiving end of a software patent lawsuit from a troll. Software patents are weapons of mass extortion. It is madness.

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

Since I don’t really celebrate Christmas, I end up playing around with software a lot over the holidays. This year my friends at FullContact and Mattermark got the brunt of me using their software, finding bugs, making suggestions, and playing around with competitive stuff. The word software didn’t even exist.

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APRIL 24, 2014

I regularly get asked for resources for girls who are interested in learning how to write software. Software Engineer Insider. NCWIT ayah bdeir coding girls littlebits software development space' Following is a list curated by Lucy. Learn to Code. Khan Academy. Code Academy. Code Academy after school resources. Learn Street.

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MAY 9, 2013

Nick does a great job of describing the software patent problem, suggesting several solutions, and explaining how the Patent Quality Improvement Act helps the increasingly dismal situation around software patents. ” Regarding functional claiming, Mark says: “This is a problem that is unique to software.

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JUNE 11, 2021

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. We were fraternity brothers and close friends and opened our first office directly across the street from our fraternity chapter house in Cambridge.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

Many years ago I read Fredrick Brooks iconic book on software engineering – The Mythical Man-Month. One of his key messages is that adding additional software engineers to an already late project will just delay things more. We know a lot more about building complex software than we did in 1980.

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JUNE 4, 2014

The “enterprise sales software ROI analysis” as a selling tool comes up over and over and over again. After spending nearly 20 years selling startup software and services to big companies, I can safely say I’ve seen thousands of “Return on Investment” (ROI) slides. So I asked Matthew how he did it at Yesware.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

After getting up at 5, having a delightful run at 6, walking Brooks, and then hanging with Amy for four minutes, I got in my car and drove over to Rally Software for their Big 1% Give Back event. Part of that vision became the agile software development products that Rally makes. My day started out great. The post Rally Gives $1.3

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AUGUST 18, 2012

Many of our Glue investments and our Protocol investments are growing quickly and becoming integral parts of the Internet and web software infrastructure. For as long as I’ve been involved in writing and creating software there has always been a deep philosophy of creating building blocks that you can leverage.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. We just had to go build it to prove our point.

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MARCH 29, 2016

Over the weekend, Joi Ito (the director of the MIT Media Lab among a long list of other awesome things) announced that the MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to FLOSS*. How Open Source software works: “Free” user-to-user assistance. Joi’s punch line says it all.

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MAY 24, 2010

Last week, Microsoft sued Salesforce.com claiming infringement of 9 software patents. This comes shortly after Nokia sued Apple who sued Nokia over software patents, and after Apple sued HTC who sued Apple over software patents. It’s a massive tax on and retardant of innovation.

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MARCH 28, 2020

There is a new, private-sector volunteer organization (and a non-profit) called Citizen Software Engineers (CSE) run by Tim Miller (you may know Tim as the Rally Software CEO from near inception through their acquisition by CA) that is part of my Innovation Response Team.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Techtonic Academy provides underprivileged youth, minorities, women, and veterans both technical training and mentorship to become entry-level software engineers and pursue a career in the technology field. I think many software developers share that sentiment. I learned to code doing it on the job.”

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MAY 28, 2019

The multitude of holographic apps being created by developers around the world, like holographic CT scan viewers and interactive software robots and volumetric video players for the Looking Glass, haven’t really been deployable outside of a highly technical crowd that already owns powerful computers.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

.” While the specific claims may not be obvious to the patent troll, especially those who are lawyers who own patents they’ve picked up from other people (bankrupt companies, individuals who applied for and got a patent, patent factories), they are often extremely obvious to any software developer. I had zero impact.

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JULY 14, 2010

In April Rally Software did one when they acquired AgileZen ; yesterday they announced that Rally Software has acquired the ScrumAway iPhone app from Blue Hole Software.

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MARCH 2, 2010

But what happens when you only have two – say “software” and “network”. As someone who has been involved in creating software in one form or another for the past 25 years, I know I’m biased. I predict all those iPhones were out there because of the software, not the network. Paper always beats rock. Rock always beats scissors.

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APRIL 13, 2010

Yesterday I published one of Sawyer’s posts titled Why the Decks are Stacked Against Software Startups in Patent Litigation. Most software patent plaintiffs hire their lawyers on contingent fee. There are other “types&# of software patent plaintiffs, but I think they draw characteristics from the types above.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

I woke up this morning to a post from Fred Wilson titled The Academy For Software Engineering. In it Fred announced a new initiative in New York City called The Academy For Software Engineering. I expect efforts like The Academy For Software Engineering to take this on directly.

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MAY 20, 2013

Over the past few decades, the most compelling engineers and entrepreneurs I’ve met have tended to be working on problems that can be solved with software. Instead, they are software companies that happen to have a physical component in their stack – something I call software wrapped in plastic.

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MARCH 8, 2011

A post in the New York Times this morning asserted that Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law. The rapid pace of software progress, Mr. Lazowska added, is harder to measure in algorithms performing nonnumerical tasks. It’s easy to forget about the software layer, but as an investor I live in it.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Over the past few months I’ve had a number of people ask me if I know of any TechStars like accelerator programs for people creating non-software / Internet products and services.

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JULY 7, 2010

Seeing the reaction to Bilski, what has struck me is how surprised and disappointed some people are with the weak will of the Supreme Court to act to limit the damage that software patents are causing, and will keep causing, to innovation in the U.S. Software innovation continues, by the way, in spite of the patent system, not because of it.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

This is most prominent in online systems, but increasingly software updates are automatic and frequent on mobile devices and even full computer systems. On any given day, one may need to spend a significant amount of time re-learning how to use the software before being productive or experiencing the desired entertainment.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Rally Software is one that I’m proud to have been involved in from the beginning. Now you’ve just got to get these kids using software from Kerpoof at an early age. Tags: Entrepreneurship babies mom rally software work culture. Lots of little things go into building a great company over the long term.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

If there is one thing you read today, go read Brad Burnham at Union Square Ventures excellent essay titled Software patents are the problem not the answer. Several years ago my partner Jason Mendelson agreed and since then he’s become outspoken about his desire for the end of software patents.

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APRIL 16, 2012

But they don’t teach you software development, which is much more useful, and a lot more fun. Part of the problem is the word “science” – they teach computer science theory, how to program in Java, math, logical, and a bunch of other things. When I compare it to French 3, I wanted to learn conversation French.

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APRIL 12, 2010

The conventional wisdom has long been that software startups benefit from patents. I’ve been investing in software / Internet companies for over 16 years and I’ve never once had a patent influence my investment decision. What software startup has $5 million to burn on defending a case with no value-add? Even $500k?

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JUNE 11, 2021

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. We were fraternity brothers and close friends and opened our first office directly across the street from our fraternity chapter house in Cambridge.

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APRIL 13, 2015

All the articles about how capital efficient businesses were a result of AWS, better software development tools, easier starting points, better scaling technologies, and lots of other things. Do you remember when it was “all software, all the time?” Internet of Things wasn’t yet a buzzword. Oh how things change.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Some have strong negative feelings about software patents that mirror mine while others keep me entertained by arguing both sides of the situation with themselves while I sit around and listen. That has to mean innovation in a particular field, e.g., "software patents incentivize innovation in software."

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MARCH 3, 2010

My friend Sawyer is back with another post in his series of talking about software patent issues. As I mentioned before, Sawyer is a real person named after our intrepid friend in LOST (I haven’t seen it this week – no spoilers please) who has agreed to help us navigate the parallel universe known as software patent land.

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