Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? To the extended Rally Software family past and present – congratulations.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

What this meant for entrepreneurs and VCs was a bit more complex– the IPO market was all but closed (with the Google IPO in 2004 as a brilliant exception), but it was possible find a buyer for your company. Reply DK , on September 15, 2009 at 3:04 am Said: Best summary of the past, present and the future of venture business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Event follow-up – A quick way to monitor how your webinar, conference or presentation went. It may be one of the most important reflections of the service your customers receive. How about monitoring the relationship between internal teams like sales and marketing?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2021

Frank Wilczek is a legendary physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 2004 for “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.” Kaku’s presented it in a way that one could understand without any deep quantum physics knowledge, so I went looking for more. Wilczek delivered.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

New Age Meats cofounders Brian Spears and Andra Necula The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. I lived in Austin from 2004 to 2016, and attended SXSW every year.

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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. We were up against a tight deadline where we actually had to invent a business and present to our classmates at school!”

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when competitors Dell and Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. Within a few years, Anderson became the face of college girls in what seemed to be every marketing campaign. But did it stop there?

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 30, 2021

My online presentations feel so much more seamless and I can communicate with an audience in a far more effective manner. Taki’s been coaching business owners since 2004 and is one of the experts when it comes to converting sales. Behold, a behind the scenes peek at my camera set up. I hope these books serve you as they did me.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. Again, this doesn’t feel like it presents a game-changing investment opportunity across the board the way the web itself was a pretty blank business canvas when it started.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Whilst teaching 16-18-year-old college students part-time, I had taken on a Flash website build in mid-2004 for a highly-reputed jewelry company in Bristol, UK, referred to me by a friend, and done a good job, other website opportunities started to come in.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

1994 – present. approx 2004-09. Despite the difficulties in gathering it, angel return data has gradually accumulated over time and the verdict is in: we’ve looked at a dozen different studies of angel returns , and they show returns ranging from 18% to 54%. . Average Angel Returns Over Time. Time Period. Total Investments.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

But so far this year, we’ve seen that a number of companies, often times with nothing more than a team and a Powerpoint presentation, have had great success raising capital north of that $10 million level. . “Historically, the $10 million valuation mark has been somewhat of a ceiling for seed stage startups. million to $4.0

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when PC competitors Dell & Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. Related: The Different Kinds Of Stock Photography Licenses. But did it stop there?

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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. Since then, this journey has taken me straight into the heart of the DevOps movement. It wasn’t a fluke.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. Part of what I’ve always strived to do was to be present and accessible in the community—from the countless panels to the hundreds of neighborhood dinners we’ve organized over the last decade. This is how Fred Wilson described me back in 2010.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. If you have good experience then the VC will be leaning forward for the rest of the presentation.”. If your investor is a match with your industry, believe it or not, the next most important thing is YOU and your TEAM. Market Share and a Competitive Advantage. “We

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

That business was sold in 2004 and provided JAMCO with its first profitable exit which resulted in the creation of a sizeable pool of capital to use going forward. You will also have encountered many of the questions people may ask and be ready for them when it comes to more important presentations.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 16, 2004

I am at Demo 2004, and it is great to feel the positive buzz in the room. In fact, it never went away as a number of companies that presented in the morning have been around for a few years. The post Demo 2004 appeared first on BeyondVC.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

The Airbnb Way is my ninth business book since 2004. I focus on five broad categories that represent the DNA of the Airbnb brand, and then present lessons in each category. I write business books about brands that entrust me to consult for them and/or tell their story. In your book, you talk about Airbnb’s five leadership lessons.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

It’s just as important to showcase the leadership team’s strengths and experiences in investor presentations as it is to detail the product vision and its eventual grand success. Opening each presentation with a joke or self-deprecating anecdote – why, again? Get customers THEN funding. Lead with your smarts.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The ATI staff, structure and entrepreneur-rich environment alleviated some of the logistical burdens present for a small organization and allowed the Wi-Fi Alliance to focus on growth. The resulting consistent implementations of Wi-Fi across brands, provides consumers with the best, user-friendly Wi-Fi experience possible.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl. Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery. To motivate you to give this a try, let me tell you a story from the early days of IMVU.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

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. So how you conduct yourself and what you say — online and offline — will reflect on your brand. Follow her on Twitter.

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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. If you choose to go the really simple route, the PC-only VOIP providers of today have come a long way since 2004. Also keep an eye out for Microsoft’s WPF/e (windows presentation framework everywhere see an earlier post for more info on wpf).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2014

A unique sense of culture and history is always present in New Orleans. In 2004, her articles and interviews were featured in Supersport Magazine, a local print out for motocross enthusiasts. New Orleans, Louisiana. The home of the Mardi Gras beads has much more to offer its residents than meets the eye.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

Without enough buyers in the system, it’s not worth it for the sellers to show up; without enough sellers present, buyers don’t have anything to purchase. I’ve observed a couple of strategies and approaches for overcoming cold-start inertia : Offer supply side value for being present beyond just buyers.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The response to the video I shared of my presentation – How I Made $180,000 Profit Buying And Selling Websites Part Time – was awesome, and as I promised, here is the text transcript for you. In 2004 I began blogging. I’ll also include the MP3 download if you just want the audio without the video.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2020

Jim: My media background helped tremendously in getting press, which we did not pursue until 2004. As the organization grew, what were the additional challenges to making it sustainable? Getting visibility? Raising sponsorship funds? We first wanted to have adaptive instructors and buddies trained before we hit the media.

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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. This past May was the 10th anniversary of LinkedIn, and while reflecting on my entrepreneurial journey, I realized that no one gets to see the presentation decks for successful companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 14, 2011

Essentially, Lindkvist – a TED fellow since 2004 – helps identifies upcoming trends that are taking place around us and how we can leverage and benefit from them. Invisibility by “present-ism&# – when we believe that tomorrow will be like today, more or less, and.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2011

How you conduct the transaction is marketing, how you deliver or present the product or service is marketing, how you continue to educate and make additional offers is marketing, and how you stay in touch to measure results is marketing. Not that innovative, but strangely rare. And what's this?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 23, 2011

2Screens iPad Presentation app – this one has two iTunes links and is a bit geeky, but I love presenting on my iPad and now I’ve found a great presentation tool 2Screens Presentation Expert and 2Screens iPhone Remote that lets you use your iPhone as a remote for your iPad – total coolness achieved.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Whether you follow the BSG theology or subscribe to Mark Twain, or are somewhere in-between, you recognize the value of understanding the past to exist in the present and deal with the future. Others are in total denial of reality, which never works out well in the long run. ” The post Is History A Guide In Business?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

We’ve swung so far over to the “information wants to be free” thinking that I believe it’s presenting a challenge for businesses and content consumers and the Web in general. This lumps thoroughly researched, well-presented, useful content in with shoddily veiled pitch fests. How good can something that’s free really be?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2011

When you click a Send button you are presented with a pop-up screen that gives you the option to select the friends you wish to send (much like a share) the content of this page to. I think this is a tool that will be adopted and added to Web pages as thoroughly as the Like button as it presents some functionality that has long been missing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

I’ve also used to this approach to gather instant feedback on a presentation by asking participants to text their thoughts on the event to a short code.

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