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

Both Sides of the Table

“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. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

Feld Thoughts

With a slight diversion in the late 1990’s when everyone (including me) lost their mind for a few years, I’ve held to this algorithm for all my investing. I’ve been interested in private company data since I started Feld Technologies in 1987. This kicked me in the ass very, very hard between 2001 and 2004.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

Next week actually Google is rolling out a new algorithm that if your website is not mobile friendly and people are searching on mobile devices, they’re actually going to deprecate your results. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews. Your thoughts on wearable tech.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. However, after 18 months of doing that it all came crashing down one day when Google changed their algorithm.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester. .

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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