Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies. Over the fast dozen years, Rally has gone from a raw startup to a 500 person public company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In fact, according to the most recent Index of Startup Activity by the Kauffman Foundation and recent SBA reports , these Baby Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom. In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

Over time, innovations outside the company (demographic, cultural, new technologies, etc.) But most large companies find it hard to deal with disruptive innovation – radical shifts in technology, customers, regulatory changes, etc, that create new markets. Just like a startup. outpace an existing company’s business model.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. Back in 1990’s, I was working for one of the leading sogo shohsa (trading company) in Japan, building data communications startups. The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s.

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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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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. For starters, there are more startups. And these are not just any old startups either; they’re some of the most innovative and successful organizations around! Damon Becnel discusses how the startup industry has changed over the past decade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Way back in 2004, he cared enough about an associate's injury to spend time investigating, and used the exercise to isolate a root cause without blaming anyone. Elon Musk often talks about identifying all the dimensions of a problem, such as lower cost battery technology, as the key to moving the electric vehicle industry ahead.

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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. Technological innovations make entrepreneurship more accessible to a lot of people. People are much more at ease with using new technology. 7- The number would rise due to technological advancements.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. Another realization is that getting funding from VCs may not be the best thing for a startup. What Could Have Been. Far from it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

Since my experience and interests have been primarily with technology, I’ve been watching those trends for a long time, and I see rapid change, but predicting impact is a challenge. million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Baby Boomers (no other name) – 70.7 Technology won’t solve this one.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

That said, only three of these companies are software technology companies - TripAdvisor ($12.5B), athenahealth ($5.0B) and Starent ($2.8B) - and they were founded in 2000, 1997 and 2000, respectively. 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004) 2004) and Fleetmatics ($1.4B/2004), 2004), although the latter was founded in Dublin.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

With technology facilitating the rapid globalization of the marketplace today, it’s no wonder that international money transfer startups are popping up to provide more payment options and autonomy to buyers and sellers alike. Here are the five hottest international money transfer startups you should know about: TorFX.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. In more recent decades, additional technology has come to market to assist drivers. The first one took place in 2004 and was conducted in the Mojave Desert.

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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. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“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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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

I stole the ideas for my first startups from other people. What I’m saying is, I’m wholly unqualified to offer startup advice. He says they both realized the future of the voiceover industry was in digital, even while (ironically) penning the idea for their startup on a decidedly analog surface. We thought, “Hey, we can do that!”

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

Two years ago, airports in the United States started piloting face recognition technology at departure gates as part of the Exit Visa program. The technology is actually slower than a person looking at a boarding pass and subject to false positives that have to be manually addressed. citizens at all air, sea, and land ports of entry.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 13, 2010

Of most interest is the story of Mr. Peter Thiel investing $500,000 into the company in 2004, at an effective valuation of $4.9 Thiel is part of the famous PayPal Mafia - former founders of PayPal and their friends that travel in the rarefied Silcon Valley air of next generation Internet ideas and technologies.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Charlie started his own company, The Feld Group, in 1992 , when my company (Feld Technologies) was five years old. In addition to helping me understand a number of fundamental things about technology at scale, I got exposed to the complexity of very large organizations, both from the top down and outside in.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. Want to start up in France?

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. Tell me if this is “lame” Leader Technologies has won 11 infringement claims against Facebook. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. PMarchetti.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

Since my experience and interests have been primarily with technology, I’ve been watching those trends for a long time, and I see rapid change, but predicting impact is a challenge. million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Generation X (Generation Me) – 82.9 Technology won’t solve this one.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 8, 2013

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News For the second year in a row, Eric Bandholz travelled from Spokane, Washington to attend Austin Startup Week. “I I lived here in 2003 and 2004 and I’ve been waiting for past ten years to get back here,” Bandholz said.

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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. Technology has already made the world pretty efficient. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

My first company (Feld Technologies) was one of the first Microsoft Solution Providers ( Dwayne Walker , are you still out there somewhere?) For over a decade, I heard and made happy talk from two directions – that of the investor in a startup and that of the partner of a big company that was looking to work with startups.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Later they failed to keep up with technologies and the digital boom and have even filed for bankruptcy twice. It's steadily risen to the most popular toymaker spot once more. 25- Vine and Periscope.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The best example I have of this is looking at what happened with YouTube; it came about at the right time, with the right team, and the right technology. Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005. The Right Technology. The Right Time. The Right Team.

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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. As I said, this happens both in large enterprises and growing startups alike. Since then, this journey has taken me straight into the heart of the DevOps movement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

There are books on most (but not yet all) of the critical topics about startups, and of course a massive amount of information on blogs and Twitter. Mostly we read business books designed for established enterprise and tried to read through the lines to find ways to apply their wisdom to startups.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Sometimes with the help of start-up incubators, like the University of Texas’ Austin Technology Incubator (ATI). ATI is a traditional incubator that helps form and grow up to 30 startup companies at any given time and counts over 200 successful launches over its 20+ years. They thought the market could be significant if IEEE 802.11

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I have been involved in many of these innovations, mainly through my last startup venture, a company that became the world’s leading provider of credit card loyalty solutions with bank customers in 30 countries. My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Not mentioned in the movie is the unbelievable story of a Peter Thiel one of the founders of PayPal investing $500,000 in 2004 in exchange for approximately 5% of Facebook. Through this professional and personal network, Thiel sees lots of great startups. At a current U.S. Most of them are duds, but a few are world-beaters.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. But are we also enjoying a period of unparalleled growth and opportunity led by high-growth technology companies? Source: Cambridge Associates.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Everyone else?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

Since my experience and interests have been primarily with technology, I’ve been watching those trends for a long time, and I see rapid change, but predicting impact is a challenge. million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Generation X (Generation Me) – 82.9 Technology won’t solve this one.

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