Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

He’s been a professor at CU Boulder since 1980 and was the chairman of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department from 1988 to 1992. Conferences event founders story larry gold silicon flatirons' I’ve gotten to know Larry over the past few years through a few different vectors.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2014

Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants his maturing company to start focusing on “loving the people we serve.” I’m convinced that the Pirates’ emphasis on culture is a big reason why the team won 94 games and made it to the post-season in 2013, after not having a winning record since 1992. Start with a strong vision.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Mark Satterfield is the founder and CEO of Gentle Rain Marketing, Inc. Since 1992, he has helped clients in financial services, insurance, health care, consulting, real estate, advertising, training, recruiting, and more than 75 niche industries grow their businesses without cold calling or hard selling.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong. Research in Motion (RIM).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Mark Satterfield is the founder and CEO of Gentle Rain Marketing, Inc. Since 1992, he has helped clients in financial services, insurance, health care, consulting, real estate, advertising, training, recruiting, and more than 75 niche industries grow their businesses without cold calling or hard selling.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Mark Satterfield is the founder and CEO of Gentle Rain Marketing, Inc. Since 1992, he has helped clients in financial services, insurance, health care, consulting, real estate, advertising, training, recruiting, and more than 75 niche industries grow their businesses without cold calling or hard selling.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. Or one of the first women co-founders of a VC firm – “I co-founded a great firm.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

” If you don’t read any more of the post, the summary lesson learned for entrepreneurs is this: Product-centric founders often over-intellectualize their communications and therefore fail to sell their concepts to the masses. Think of James Carville’s slogan for Clinton in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2014

Mark Satterfield is the founder and CEO of Gentle Rain Marketing, Inc. Since 1992, he has helped clients in financial services, insurance, health care, consulting, real estate, advertising, training, recruiting, and more than 75 niche industries grow their businesses without cold calling or hard selling.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Mark Satterfield is the founder and CEO of Gentle Rain Marketing, Inc. Since 1992, he has helped clients in financial services, insurance, health care, consulting, real estate, advertising, training, recruiting, and more than 75 niche industries grow their businesses without cold calling or hard selling.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

Allen Tsai, co-founder of Tastebud, had about 5 minutes notice for his 5 minute demo with Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. Allen Tsai , co-founder of Tastebud , didn’t know who was coming to Capital Factory on Friday, but he still arrived around 7 am to make sure he was first in line to find out. Tim Cook Tim Cook was just a pleasure.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

John has invested in various small businesses and served as a mentor and branding authority since his beginnings in 1992. 5- WhatsApp founders. One of my favorite business turnarounds is the story of the founders of WhatsApp. My favorite entrepreneur turn-around story has been of Eric Yuan, founder of Zoom.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Mark Satterfield is the founder and CEO of Gentle Rain Marketing, Inc. Since 1992, he has helped clients in financial services, insurance, health care, consulting, real estate, advertising, training, recruiting, and more than 75 niche industries grow their businesses without cold calling or hard selling. Go get started!

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

Ford’s frustrated chairman, Ernest Breech, asked the committee out loud, “Why don’t we just call it Edsel (after the founder’s late son and former president of the company, Edsel Ford)?” New Coke was rebranded Coca-Cola II in 1992. The committee didn’t like any of them. By 2002, New Coke was dead.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

The term Metaverse was first coined by author Neil Stephenson in the novel ‘Snow Crush’ published in 1992. We are excited to continue backing ambitious founders in this space with our second fund, especially in Israel and the UK. What is the metaverse? I will try to unpack this further on a future post.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 13, 2014

I first met Tony Fadell, co-founder and CEO of Nest, in the summer of 1991. In a company full of talent (the founders of eBay, WebTV, Android all came from GM), Tony stood out even at a very young age. Tony –working on “iPhone” circa 1992 Me–product manager, having a ball.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And have you met Peter Norton, founder of Norton Utilities? Then in 1992 we moved to Eugene, Oregon. Maybe even somebody with a different name. And here’s an interesting piece of trivia: when Borland International got started, there was nobody named Borland involved. Sure, there are exceptions to every rule. But nobody else did.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 19, 2009

  The iconic moment of the 1991/1992 recession was then President George Bush looking bewildered at the supermarket checkout line during the 1992 “It’s the Economy, Stupid” presidential campaign. Every time there’s an economic downturn, the spotlight shines on the super-rich and their out-of-touch lifestyles.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2023

He is the Founder of Genius Network, one of the highest-level groups in the world for entrepreneurs. Joe Polish is the Founder of Genius Network and is known as —”the most connected person on the planet.” He's the founder of the Genius Network, one of the highest level groups in the world for entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2014

Mark Satterfield is the founder and CEO of Gentle Rain Marketing, Inc. Since 1992, he has helped clients in financial services, insurance, health care, consulting, real estate, advertising, training, recruiting, and more than 75 niche industries grow their businesses without cold calling or hard selling.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2016

In 1992 a study done by Richard Moreland and Scott Beach had students visit a classroom of over 100 people, 5, 10 or 15 times during a semester. As you can see below, LeadQuizzes’ founder Jeremy Ellens employs this technique in the first email he sends to his leads. The Classroom Likability Experiment.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Joe is the Founder of Genius Network, one of the highest-level groups in the world for entrepreneurs. Joe Polish is the Founder of Genius Network and is known as —”the most connected person on the planet.” He's the founder of the Genius Network, one of the highest level groups in the world for entrepreneurs.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

5-My co-founders’ wife came up with it. As much as I would like to take credit for the name it was my co-founders’ wife that thought of it. Being it was in 1992, before the internet was born and you had to have letterhead and envelopes designed, we wanted to start a bartending service here in Phoenix Arizona.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Claudio Gandelman is the CEO and founder of Teckler. His career began in 1992 when he worked in the financial market at Banco Nacional in Brazil. Since then, Gandelman has served as the CEO of Match.com Latin America, founder of Keero.com , and has held strategic positions in companies in South America.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Mark Satterfield is the founder and CEO of Gentle Rain Marketing, Inc. Since 1992, he has helped clients in financial services, insurance, health care, consulting, real estate, advertising, training, recruiting, and more than 75 niche industries grow their businesses without cold calling or hard selling.

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SVPG

JUNE 1, 2016

He originally was the co-founder and CEO of an early software company, Westminster Software, and then he founded Westminster Promotions, which has been going strong now since 1992, a remarkable 24 years. Most people outside of Silicon Valley would not likely have heard of Bruce, but he was a bit of a legend here.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Company founders don’t have the luxury of ‘diversifying their portfolio,’ so to speak. They work at their company until funding is pulled, it goes bust, it’s sold, etc… It’s hard to be the founder at multiple companies at the same time. 1 day ago Well, not most.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do. For Twitter Founder, Its Hip to Be Square Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2013

We’re proud to be second in area sales and customer satisfaction since 1992!” Joseph Callaway and JoAnn Callaway are coauthors of “ Clients First: The Two Word Miracle ” and founders of the real estate company Those Callaways. You’ve halfway tuned out during a commercial break when something catches your attention.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 2, 2018

He is the founder of Top Line Results , a management consulting firm, and the co-author of a book we’re going to talk about today called Inbound Organization: How to Build and Strengthen Your Company’s Future Using Inbound Principles. It could’ve been made in 1992 by some graphic artist. Just go to Gusto.com/tape.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2011

The oldest son of the founder of Wal-Mart is Samuel Robson Walton, a well-educated man who seems to have been primed to take over the family business in a clever way. After nine years as a lawyer, Walton was named senior vice president of Wal-Mart and succeeded his father as chairman of the board of directors after his father died in 1992.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

ICQ FOUNDER SELLS ISRAEL’S DOTOMI FOR $295 MLN. Dotomi founder Yair Goldfinger also co-founded ICQ, the technology known today as instant messaging. The firm, which was founded in Lod, Israel, in 1992, develops components for managing the energy supply to lighting units in order to save energy. ValueClick Inc.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 12, 2017

Among them, Eugene Lang College Professor Lauren Walsh will talk about how photography has democratized historical narratives with Lost Rolls founder Ron Haviv, a legendary war photojournalist. Having spent time on the campaign trail and covering presidential politics since 1992, it’s impossible not to be reading and watching everything.

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