Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Our findings went into a book that we published in 2004 called The Visible Ops Handbook , which described how these organizations made their “good to great” transformation. high deploy rates), while simultaneously increasing the reliability, stability, resilience of the production environment.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

I’ve attached below my original, much more detailed blog post about the details of how we’ve designed our office to help people stay healthy and be as productive as possible. According to a 2003-2004 U.S. Here are our core operating principles: - Healthy alternatives should be truly viable alternatives, not luxury products.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I found my productivity and creativity had increased… as well as my boredom. In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. I went to bed and prayed for some guidance, and as odd as it sounds, I dreamed about a new product to invent, Finders Key Purse(r). Flash forward five days.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. The company operates on six continents and boasts more than 250,000 graduates worldwide. Write it down on a napkin.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Founding Date: 2004. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. 5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010. round closed in June 2004.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

Cruise control was invented in the late 1940’s and was first adopted on a production car in 1958, the Chrysler Imperial. The newest one is a power-operated accelerator pedal…” Period brochure for 1958 Imperial “Auto Pilot” (cruise control). DARPA’s Robotic Cars to Today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! You invite other hot prospects to participate and then simply host and moderate the discussion among peers.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2022

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affect the way businesses operate. The pandemic has opened doors for entrepreneurs and altered the way businesses operate – maybe for the better. The number of new entrepreneurs in the US has been rising annually since 2004.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors. There are five types of moats: Low-cost production; High switching costs; Network effects; Intangible assets; Efficient scale. Low-cost production. GEICO didn’t stumble upon low-cost production as its moat.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Just so we’re clear, I don’t receive anything for promoting this tool, I just think it’s the right one for this use.)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to better run a product management process. The things you learn in tough environments.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups. One (thing) we have talked about in the past is a lack of Product Managers, experienced technology Product Managers. (in in LA and Boulder) Is that true?

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo!

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. I am happy that my initial disappointment in the skincare industry led me to take productive actions towards finding solutions, and to this day I feel fulfilled in my role leading Proven Skincare. No hassles. No regrets.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

We launched as Leather Nova with just two specialty leather care products. When our products took off on Amazon we realized that there was more runway to care for high-end products, but the name Leather Nova was too restrictive. The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. Sustainable.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Or this: “Apple doesn’t do loyalty because they produce outrageously awesome products.” My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. If you own an Apple product, you know what I’m talking about. If you want loyalty, get a dog.” Inflation: The Next Big Opportunity?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

approx 2004-09. After years of leading busy and productive lives, lying on the beach and sipping cocktails just does not cut it. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2009: Holding Steady but Changes in Seed and Startup Investments”. DeGennaro & Dwyer: “Expected Returns to Angel Investors” 603.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The show inspired us to create a product that would help an individual learn something quickly and in small bites. This idea of snackable content format pivoted to a video product in June 2016. Since founding my business in 1981 as a typing and editing service, I’ve operated under many names/websites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Shopify Sustainability Fund (founded 2004) – with a market cap of $73 billion, publicly traded Shopify launched a $5 million annual fund to invest in environmental technology fighting climate change. The mega grants are a way for Epic Games to back developers and companies using their Unreal engine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

Entrepreneur 263

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

These companies don’t always call their plans “business plans” but instead often refer to things like strategic plans, growth plans, and operational plans. That’s because these innovative startups are learning new things about their product and customers at a very fast pace and their strategies change more frequently.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

That resulted in a new process for Search: Customer Development + traditional product management/Waterfall Engineering. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Product: The Funded. Director, Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Turn Security Solutions Architect Turn Software Engineer, Data Turn Web Developer HelloFax Princ Mobile Software Engineer Advertising.com.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

healthcare system does not operate as a free marketplace with the type of open-competition that we often associate with capitalism. Those that adopt this mentality will find new levels of productivity, and as a result, will deliver higher quality care at lower and lower prices. The problem is primarily an absence of easy reimbursement.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to determine what is the product of genuine entrepreneurial wisdom and what is pure bunk. Some real-life examples of this include: Martha Stewart, whose company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, suffered and never fully recovered after she was found guilty in 2004 of charges related to insider trading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

So when we moved in the beginning of 2004, I vowed to outsource as much as possible. Productivity – Microsoft Office. If you choose to go the really simple route, the PC-only VOIP providers of today have come a long way since 2004. What a nightmare! In the end, here is what we did: 1. and easily provision without cap x.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

I sell thermometers and thermal imagers, and write reviews on popular products. The two businesses that operate within our corporation are Best in Class Education and Middle School Dances, a business I started with my son to provide social activities for the kids in our local area when we noticed a gap in the market. 6- Three things.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

I came back to India , in 2004. Soon enough, we met a couple of niche product companies, and things have taken off from there. It’s a dramatic shift from how things were in 2004. With an entrepreneurial background, I was trying to figure out how people went about starting companies. How are entrepreneurs in India like?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Ask yourself “what is my product/service doing that no one else is?” and “why is my product/service better than my competitors?”. Take the time to develop a strategic roadmap so you may better understand the ways in which you’ll achieve your operational goals. Create a brand bible. Sniffing out a potential new lead?

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