Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2021

In keeping with our view that Nietzsche’s observations are mostly independent of time and technology, it can be applied here. Your own preferences for technology platforms can get in the way of a successful meeting if the customer prefers a different system or is not set up on it.

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MARCH 4, 2019

The post littleBits Is Helping To Close The Gender Gap in Technology appeared first on Feld Thoughts. There are two great interview segments with her that discuss (1) To increase girls in tech, focus on ages 8-12 and (2) The importance of teaching girls to fail.

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JUNE 11, 2021

It was the end of January 1988, about nine months since we had embarked on turning Brad’s solo consulting shop, Feld Technologies, into a real business. Because of our experience at Feld Technologies—and many times since—we knew immediately that this had to be a chapter in the book. It follows. For entrepreneurs?

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

You know, those old guys don’t know lucky they had it with all their technology 30 and 40 years ago. The post The Worst of Times For Technology appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Man, things are so hard these days. Tell me about it. I wish we could go back to when things just worked. Y’all, you straight. Let me drop a story on you.

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JUNE 16, 2011

I love the entrepreneurs I work with, my partners are extraordinary, the team that supports us is dynamite, and because of magic technology I have an enormous amount of time and space freedom. I love magic technology. As I sit here writing this, I realize that I couldn’t have worked this way a decade ago.

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JULY 14, 2012

Dave Jilk, my partner in Feld Technologies, recently dug up a bunch of old stuff. I blogged one of the documents recently - The Simple Formal Beginnings Of Feld Technologies - and have a few other fun ones coming. Over the life of Feld Technologies, we were never sued.

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MARCH 10, 2015

There was plenty of Apple news yesterday, but the one that lit me up was the announcement that Apple is partnering with the National Center for Women and Information Technology to help create a broader pipeline of female technology workers. The post Apple and Women in Information Technology appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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JULY 2, 2012

My first business partner, Dave Jilk, emailed me our original partnership agreement for Feld Technologies. I used to read every word on every page myself (I learned that from Len Fassler, who bought Feld Technologies). It’s one page. We incorporated a month later as an S-Corp.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Next week at Defrag I’ll be giving a talk titled “Resistance is Futile” I’ll be talking about my premise that the machines have already taken over. A few days ago a friend of mine emailed me a perfect image to summarize where we are today. Ponder and enjoy.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

As we exit 2020, it’s a great reminder of the place technology was around 20 years ago. As a continual user of a wide variety of technology, I think our modern computing infrastructure is completely fubared. This time I read it on my Kindle, which was fitting. Stephenson wrote it in 1999.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

HBCUvc is seeking to expand its VC Lab and Fund program that invests in Black, Indigenous, and Latinx entrepreneurs building technology companies. She asked me to support the expansion of HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund. The fund is managed by university students participating in HBCUvc’s Fellowship programs.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2021

In keeping with our view that Nietzsche’s observations are mostly independent of time and technology, it can be applied here. Your own preferences for technology platforms can get in the way of a successful meeting if the customer prefers a different system or is not set up on it.

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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. People talk about technology clusters. What’s the evidence that startup communities can happen outside of traditional technology hubs? Startup Communities interview mit mit technology review startup communities'

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Smaller equals faster in processor technology.). But manufacturing technology has proceeded to get smaller and smaller. Limits are overcome, worked around, or solved by switching technology.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

It was the end of January 1988, about nine months since we had embarked on turning Brad’s solo consulting shop, Feld Technologies, into a real business. Because of our experience at Feld Technologies—and many times since—we knew immediately that this had to be a chapter in the book. It follows. For entrepreneurs?

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Suddenly, there’s a lot of constructive conversation about women in technology and entrepreneurship. As chair of the National Center for Women & Information Technology , I’ve seen all sides of this, including plenty aimed at me. This mess is from men to women, from women to women, from men to men, and from women to men.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Too often, aspiring engineers who lack the funds to pursue a computer science degree from a university or take part in a bootcamp find themselves locked out of technology jobs, despite often severe talent shortages. As Heather told me, “I have an Ivy League education, but that’s not where I learned to code.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

One of the many great things about the Governor of Colorado is that he’s an entrepreneur, having started multiple successful technology companies, including BlueMountainArts.com (acquired by Excite for $800m) and Provide Commerce (IPO, then acquired by Liberty Media for $500m).

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APRIL 24, 2014

Ever since I first got involved in National Center for Women & Information Technology , I’ve been deep in the problem of underrepresentation of women in computer science and entrepreneurship. I hope to work with her for a long time. Seeing the launch inspired me to go dig up a list of resourced for girls learning to code.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

After being involved in hundreds of technology companies, we know that young and fast growing technology companies have little time to devote to the details of managing their server infrastructure. To that end, Raj Bhargava and I created a company called JumpCloud late last year (our eighth venture together).

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

Website technology providers had to make HTTPS a turnkey experience. Even better, it is powered by their new Global CDN , with over 30 points of presence and the most sophisticated Drupal and WordPress caching technology available on the market. Certificate management had to become cheap and easy. This is happening now.

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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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MARCH 4, 2014

My first company (Feld Technologies) had a duo (me and Dave) and the company that bought Feld Technologies did also – Jerry and Len (AmeriData). Of course there are many other famous founding duos like Steve and Steve (Apple), Jerry and Dave (Yahoo!), Larry and Sergey (Google), and Bill and Paul (Microsoft).

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The backend infrastructure that handles all the Internet connectivity and services for a world-wide distributed technology that was built by a team of 150 engineers overseas. I just read your post on Fixing the Obamacare site. It reminds me of my current project at my day job.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Welcome to another part of our world (financial markets), where the unintended consequences of technology wreak havoc. Technology has increased the velocity of change. Technology has increased the velocity of change. It’s recursive, as the velocity of technology is changing faster than ever.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

We are leaders of 35 different technology companies with headquarters or offices in the Denver and Boulder metro areas. A group of us are working quickly to create more mechanisms for a coordinated response, collective action, funding for critical resources, and ideas for things to do that will have a positive impact.

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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

MARCH 27, 2018

How Do Accelerators Impact the Performance of High-Technology Ventures? , If So, How? The Impact of Intensive Learning from Others on New Venture Development , Hallen, Bingham, and Cohen, 7/16. Who Needs Contracts? Generalized Exchange within Investment Accelerators , Bernthal, 11/16.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2019

This story has been told before, where a new computing platform makes the phase change from a dev kit for a group of technology enthusiasts into something that businesses can use.

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JULY 11, 2014

Startup Life life philosophy Technology' And see if it impacts your digital paralysis when you end the pause and go back to the computer. The post Digital Paralysis appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2013

To draw an analogy, non-programmers can and often do have very insightful things to say about digital technology. Technology bitcoin currency' And, while economists often disagree violently with each other, the collective knowledge in the field is important and valuable. The FT Alphaville collection of bitcoin posts.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

We ran my first company (Feld Technologies) on Lotus Agenda from when the first version of Agenda came out sometime in 1990 to when we sold the company in 1993. Until six weeks ago, my favorite software product of all time was Lotus Agenda.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

I’m chair of the National Center for Women & Information Technology. . - Computer Science Education : This is one of the areas Amy and I support significantly. Two weeks ago Wellesley unveiled their new Human-Computer Interaction Lab which we underwrote. And we have a few more fun things coming soon.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

Simon Zhang spent three years as a financial and tax consultant at Deloitte Canada with a focus on businesses in mining, financial services and technology sectors. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

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MAY 6, 2013

TechStars Patriot Boot Camp is an intense three-day program that will educate and mentor Veterans and Service Members to innovate, build technology companies, and create jobs.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The word “platform” used to mean something in the technology industry. Like many other words, it has been applied to so many different things to almost be meaningless.

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JULY 12, 2018

Big shifts in technology are often interpreted at first as evolutionary, not revolutionary. As a result, the study favored broad tools that covered more surface area (mainly from very large, established technology vendors), but had less specific capabilities, especially in the new product category being addressed.

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