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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Distribution.

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Understanding the Importance of Board Transparency

Board Effect

Valve is a game developer corporation that started in 1996, making such electronic games as Alien Swarm and Left 4 Dead. It’s long been taboo for vendors to access suppliers’ factories and distribution centers. The only correct approach is the one that works for them. That’s right!

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The Age of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

However, a paper published a while back by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – the group devoted to fostering entrepreneurship around the world – suggests that the age distribution among company founders is much broader than we might have imagined. First of all, we all know that the age distribution in the U.S. is inching higher.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. Still, since 1996, the only major change to the browser’s user experience has been the addition of tabs.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., Update (08/15/2010 11:23 PM): Patrick Vlaskovits posted a great followup to my post above on his blog: Distribution and Pricing Hypotheses with LOIs. we began by building chat servers. This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats.

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New Course: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy

Feld Thoughts

I’m looking for two types of feedback: (1) comments on the syllabus and (2) suggestions for web services to use to package this content up for broader distribution. Students in the class will be required to write a ten page paper as well as participate actively in the course (including on a class blog).