Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

We were introduced in the spring of 1993 by Jim Galvin, CEO of Allcom, which had just been acquired by Len’s company Sage Alerting Systems. It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. After 89 years on this planet, Len Fassler passed away on Friday. Len was my Yoda.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

All the way from 1993 to 2000. The only skill they have is to send emails,” said Deshpande. But this was a time-consuming job not meant for their internal IT departments. Enter outsourcing. Enter India. Image via JES AZNAR/AFP/Getty Images. This is when the IT sector saw a real spurt in activity,” Deshpande said. They have no skills.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. We’re now at the point where you can see an automated “personal email” from a mile away. While the MQL model asks first “What’s the email of this contact?

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. People point to Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic browser as the point at which everything changed, but that’s not what actually happened.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In Dan Rather’s book he talks about Ruth Bader Ginsberg who was appointed the the Supreme Court in 1993. It surprised me how many male executives emailed me back with a list of 3 or 4 women on their team who might be interested attending the film. Now 33% of Supreme Court Justices are women (vs. 8% of VC partnerships, for example).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2018

You might have noticed that some team members promptly reply to your emails while others do not find it very reassuring. Starting from a small jet ski rental in Sheffield back in 1993, John has transformed his business into a dynamic multi-event and activity company. Find Out the Other Person’s Preferred Style of Communication.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 2, 2012

My first business partner, Dave Jilk, emailed me our original partnership agreement for Feld Technologies. A short letter agreement specifying the equity splits and the boilerplate legal docs were the only legal docs we had until we sold the company in 1993. It’s one page. We incorporated a month later as an S-Corp.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2014

I learned this in 1993 when my first company was acquired by Len Fassler and Jerry Poch, two of the absolute master deal makers I’ve ever worked with. Stay relevant and true and you’ll be invited into conversations and email threads that otherwise you would have never been privy to. Hey, that’s one human’s opinion though.

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Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] I= increase revenues. 2) Robert Lauterborn, 1993. Then there’s the compass or cardinal definitions model for marketers : N=needs, W=wants, S=security, and E=education. We can go on forever. But I have my own model that is even simpler. And it’s a good place to start a focus upon positioning. (1)

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Send us an email: Bcast@Bplans.com. Also think about, Jonathan, you manage our social media presence among other things and so you understand more than ever it’s really about getting those specific posts out to people through those channels, through email and that’s very much the same thing. You built your website in 1993?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The billions funded by factoring in 2013 are anticipated to grow, based on consistent average growth of 10 percent annually since 1993. Contact Jeff via email at jeff.bell@ecapital.com. Together these challenges mean that working capital is a necessity, and ensuring access to smooth cash flow is recognized as smart business.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

By 1987 I was regularly using faxes and Federal Express (the only overnight mail I was aware of), but a mobile phone and email didn’t really show up until around 1993 for me. The web appeared in 1994 and a completely different method of communication started its long march into integrating in our universe.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Sassoon, 1993 ; Rubinstein, 1988 ). I suppose I could email them and ask for their source… Perhaps it’s anecdotal/qualitative, not quantitative research. 2001 ; Tullis et al., 1995 ; De Lange et al., Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 113-123 ).

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 18, 2012

Here are a few examples from my first company, Feld Technologies (1987 – 1993). ” I’ve got a lot more stories like this from Feld Technologies and several other companies I co-founded, including Interliant and Email Publishing, along with long stretches of time at Mobius Venture Capital.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

One of my favorite movie lines, which I think about often, comes from the 1993 movie Rudy. Among other things, it consists of 6 months of pre-written emails sent to prospects twice per week, and weekly letters and packages sent to them in the mail. Yet, this happens all the time in our businesses. We let competitors push us around.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Some good examples: “Email marketing software for designers and their clients&# ( CampaignMonitor ), “A Better Way To Work.&# ( 37signals ) and “The World’s Largest Junk Removal Service&# ( 1-800-Got-Junk? Just do it (Nike) – 1988.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Some good examples: “Email marketing software for designers and their clients&# ( CampaignMonitor ), “A Better Way To Work.&# ( 37signals ) and “The World’s Largest Junk Removal Service&# ( 1-800-Got-Junk? Just do it (Nike) – 1988.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Tumblr Pinterest Reddit Pocket Share via Email Print. I’ve been running my own business since 1993, and there have been many instances where I’ve thought of a product or service that did not exist, and I simply jumped in and created it. Enter your Email address. Inspiration. June 1, 2015.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 1993, Word 6.0 Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. I don’t think these stories have ever been shared publicly before, and they are stories that I believe deserve to be told.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Get future articles delivered via Email or subscribe to the RSS feed. Bob Minor wasn’t an equal partner financially, and may not have been all that valuable as a contributor and manager past the start-up period — but he was a partner nonetheless until the day he died (which was in 1992 or 1993, if I recall correctly).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 9, 2015

Google’s Ngram viewer (a tool that charts the usage of words in printed sources from 1800–2008) shows the precipitous rise of the words “content creation” around 1993-1994. This is accomplished through your customer service, the emails you send, the blogs you write, the product you sell, and the relationships you develop. Coincidence?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Coming from a real estate investing background, it drove me nuts how awful contractors were at email and texts, and surely they’d never figure out how to build their own website. I started my business to help real estate contractors shake hands with more customers in person. So I wanted my business name to embody this energy!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It’s how Cory Van Wolvelaere changed my life: In 1993, after working at Andersen Consulting for 2.5 I left an Octel (think email but with voice … yes, that’s what some businesses used before email!) His term sheet series helped me at a time when I needed help. He asked for nothing. It turned into this blog.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. Intel was founded in 1968 to make memory chips ( bipolar RAM ) but 17 years later they got out of the memory business and become the leading microprocessor company. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

And I did … Shortly after found 99designs (I know, had to start somewhere), and not long after that, Pete emailed me about cS. Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. Also being able to send, view and receive emails on your phone! Well thankfully we do.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

And I did … Shortly after found 99designs (I know, had to start somewhere), and not long after that, Pete emailed me about cS. Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. Also being able to send, view and receive emails on your phone! Well thankfully we do.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2015

In a landmark paper by Griffin and Hauser in Marketing Science (1993), they defined four aspects to take into consideration when conducting voice of customer research. Initially created as a way to link customer needs to performance measures in Japanese product development, VOC has jumped into the mainstream of market research.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

I graduated from high school in 1993 and enrolled into the Art Program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. After we wrapped up, I was still shocked that I was actually emailing and talking to her on a one on one basis; I’m a pretty star-struck person. I left my Winnie Cooper standing in her doorway.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

I graduated from high school in 1993 and enrolled into the Art Program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. After we wrapped up, I was still shocked that I was actually emailing and talking to her on a one on one basis; I’m a pretty star-struck person. I left my Winnie Cooper standing in her doorway.

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