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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. I was living in Boulder at this point, but traveling continuously to Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle where I was making most of my investments. Over the next two years, I made 40 angel investments with the money I made from the sale of the company.

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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

A terrific piece of evidence for this fact is observing how the technology and business section of the WSJ and New York Times now have a massive overlap. In fact, if any business still delineates a part of their strategy as digital, then it’s fair to say they have no strategy at all. A way of communicating.

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RIP Len Fassler

Feld Thoughts

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 Philanthropic Efforts Of James Dondero

YoungUpstarts

The Dallas investment management firm was founded by James Dondero and Mr. Okada in 1993 in Los Angeles, over the course of more than two decades, Highland has become a multibillion-dollar global asset manager. Only time will tell how much more James Dondero and his firm can contribute to society.

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Top 10 internet stocks – more than 1 trillion valuation

Start Up Blog

Time magazine isn’t online, the New York Times isn’t online. All of which are in their 1993 era. Then you can’t get back online. Once you get on the internet, even assuming you get on the internet, there’s nothing to do. There’s no content. It’s just a bunch of nerd stuff.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN

Austin Startup

New York City, NY Sept. 10: Techstars New York?—?New New York City, NY?—? A love with rock climbing brought him to Northern California in 1993, where he eventually took a job packing boxes for Shoreline Mountain Project. 4: “Sell More Faster” Launch Party?—?Austin, Austin, TX?—? RSVP here Sept.

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Raving Fans – How Our Themes Evolve

Feld Thoughts

I first thought of raving fans when I read Ken Blanchard’s book by the same name in 1993 when I was CEO of Feld Technologies (my first company). On Tuesday, we realized that we have made several investments yesterday that have a concept in common – that of raving fans. The message rang true for me then and still does today.