Feld Thoughts

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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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. revenue several years later.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

Most of the companies we invest in release software at least once a month. I’ve seen things like help systems, new web sites, better customer support processes, better management of social media activity, and lots of business process stuff created and implemented during hackathons. Some release weekly, or even daily.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2010

In this case, it was in an email I got from Boaz Fletcher in response to my post Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers. They don’t all need to become software engineers (never mind that I think most software engineers today, aren’t) but a basic understanding of how to build something simple and useful to them.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2010

Every major software or web company I’ve ever been involved in has had a catastrophic outage of some sort. After determining the tape drive software was working and was available, I started walking the person through restoring her data. Tags: Technology customer support disaster recovery failover web service.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

William Hertling is a web strategist, programmer, father, short-order cook and the author of two award-winning and best-selling techothrillers: Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than It Appears and A.I. Guest Post By William Hertling – williamhertling.com (Author). Apocalypse.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. This is what I mean by “forget about trying to predict advancements in software and just look at the hardware trend”. How To Do It.

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Feld Thoughts

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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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 24, 2020

Misty Robotics’ goal is to create a robot platform (hardware and software) that any developer can use to build useful and immediately applicable robot applications. A number of early customers have started building solutions. I think it’s an awesome alternative to the approach of having a human being do the screening.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2018

.” The article ends with a parallel quote from Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web. The web that many connected to years ago is not what new users will find today. The fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to weaponize the web at scale.”.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 27, 2010

In the last post, titled Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers , I foreshadowed some of the tools that Nate and Natty chose to build Everlater. The very first decision – which web framework/backend language to use – was the toughest. Now that you know how they got started, here’s what they ended up choosing.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2020

And the way contact tracing is currently implemented is on a spectrum from legacy software systems to paper/whiteboard tracking. It’ll be three hours long and live streamed on the web. Harper labeled it Exposure Alerting which has finally found its true name as “Exposure Notification.” Some are excellent.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I’ve used it as a phone, but I’ve largely stayed off of the web, email, and twitter with it. txtmsg via my phone number) or convince people to use a specific piece of software – many, such as Glassboard – which are very good, but do require intentional behavior on both sides. But we are far from it.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Marc Andreessen recently wrote a long article in the WSJ which he asserted that “ Software Is Eating The World.” I believe the phase we are currently in began in the early 1990′s with the invention of the World Wide Web and subsequent emergence of the commercial Internet.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2010

My name is Brad Feld and I’m a venture capitalist who has a popular web blog about innovation and investing in tech start-ups at www.feld.com. I’m writing to you about a new documentary film "Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system", and including a DVD of that film with this letter. They do not.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

I was an early user and liked it a lot, but hadn’t clearly formed my perspective on what the right combination of software and hardware was. The combination of hardware, software, and web data integration are the key, and the Fitbit founders ( James Park and Eric Freidman ) totally have this nailed.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 23, 2012

Foragers, Farmers, Forks & Forgers: On Software, Patronage and Craft Brewing by James Governor, Redmonk. Using APIs and Infrastructure by John Musser, Programmable Web. Shit My Could Evangelist Says, Just Not to the CSO by Chris Hoff, Juniper Networks. NoSQL Smackdown: Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4J by Tim Berglund.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 18, 2014

but earlier this year decided to stop writing for other web sites , at least for a while, as it had become a burden with all the other writing that I’m doing. In the late 1980s, I started my first company, Feld Technologies, which wrote custom software for companies. Magazine and Inc.com. I’ve enjoyed writing for Inc.,

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2016

OpenLP is a new site moderated by the gang at Sapphire Ventures that seems to be a collection of all the LP stuff floating around the web. It does appear that they need to work on their SEO so they don’t get confused with Free Open Source Church Worship Presentation Software.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

We are investors in Memeo , the leading Digital Content software and services platform for consumers and businesses. Optimize web presence. ?Memeo’s Memeo’s suite of software products and cloud-based services helps users to “Simplify Your Digital Life.&# Oversee analysis of marketing database.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 26, 2010

Now, there are a number of strong web design and development firms in Boulder, such as our friends at Slice of Lime , and we use them regularly throughout our portfolio. However, in some companies we really need a full time UX person, especially those that are software dev heavy. They are also plenty of strong UI developers.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

They are a provider of software and services that facilitate deployment and management of application software, using on-demand cloud servers from providers such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, and others. Standing Cloud , one of the Boulder-based companies we seed funded last year, is hiring a Java Developer.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2016

. #7: Programmer: PetCom Systems : I was the first employees of a husband and wife founded software company. At a time (1983) when almost all business software for the oil and gas industry was on minicomputers and mainframes (lots of IBM System/3xs), we wrote software for the Apple III and the IBM PC.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2012

As web apps go completely mainstream, I see this more and more. The punch line, other than don’t use @ at the beginning of a broadcast tweet if you want to get to the widest audience, is that as software people, we have to keep working as hard as we can to make this stuff just work for everyone else.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2010

Register with your email address, log in, pick an application, click Install, and in about 30 seconds you’ll be up and running with a fully-functioning application accessible on the web. You don’t need to know how to install and configure a web server or MySQL, or download, install and configure software code.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

When I started investing in companies that were building Web apps in 1994, it was once again all HTML / source code and examples everywhere. While we are using SFLA (silly four letter acronyms – we’ve got PaaS, and IaaS, along with our old friend SaaS), any ideas what ZaaS is going to stand for?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2010

I also invested in a company called NetGenesis that made the first threaded web discussion software based on a construct that had been deeply implemented in BBS’s and Notes; in fact, we referred to it as “bringing Lotus Notes like threaded discussion functionality to the web.&# That product, net.Thread, was acquired by another company (..)

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2016

Software should be able to solve this for us. If you are interested in seeing the math (and some concepts) behind this, the paper by some Google folks titled Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources – while chewy – is very interesting (at least the parts I understood.).

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

I love software wrapped in plastic. Upverter) and the natural viral effects of the social web. Following is a guest post from Cyril about the program along with a link to their Demo Day event in San Francisco on June 18th. Kickstarter), communities (e.g. Thingiverse), collaboration (e.g. Really hard.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2010

But my friend the Internets (actually, the Web) brought DC closer to me today. Let’s start with software patents. While I’m only involved in a handful of things related to politics and DC, several of them popped up somewhere in my world in the last two days. So, I thought I’d share them with you.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 8, 2010

Then we had TechStars Demo Day which was amazing, followed by an Open House at Jive Software (they acquired TechStars Boulder 2007 company Filtrbox last year and are growing like crazy), a Return Path board dinner at Black Cat, and the the TechStars Afterparty at the Draft House. The second Boulder Open Angel Forum delivered.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2010

It’s not hard with most software / web services as the bugs are everywhere, but they like to emerge from the shadows when I tickle my computer. I’ve always had a knack for quickly finding bugs. I’ve been running Outlook 2010 for a few weeks since it shipped.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2011

Even when you go back in time to the origins of the software industry: MS-DOS – not the first operating system. While Facebook wasn’t the first social network in the Web 2.0 Not the first social network. Not the first deal site. Not the first music site. The list goes on. Lotus 1-2-3 – not the first spreadsheet.&#.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

The investment was an obvious one for us as it fits squarely in our Adhesive theme given the deep relationships LinkSmart has with big media and web platforms as a provider of analytics and traffic management software. The Internet was founded on our ability to link between things.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2018

They are WiFi connected (just like today’s laser printer), have contemporary software, are integrated with everything 3D software related, and work extremely well. With Formlabs and Glowforge, we now have high-end desktop 3D printers at a price point under $10,000 (or at least 1/10th the price of similar industrial products).

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

As a user, how often have you thought “I wish this web service was faster.&# As a CEO, how often have you said “just make it faster.&# Or, more simply, “why is this damn thing so slow?&#. One of our software engineers wrote all the code. This is a not a new question.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2010

You’ll always have my cell phone number — if our software breaks, you can call me 24/7 and I’ll get my team on it. Which Web Services Should Gnip Integrate Next? If Amazon is up, we’ll get the data. The best way to guard against machine failure is duplicate hardware. We offer highly discounted backup boxes.

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