Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In 2011, my now-partner Chris Moody (and then-CEO of Gnip, which I was on the board of) kicked my butt about my endless statements about hating marketing. His thoughts on recasting “marketing” as “thought leadership” appeared on this blog in a post I Don’t Hate Marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2011

Related posts: Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness). This marks an important sea change in the way business will be done going forward and brings transparency and collaboration to the governing process. Good for them. Photo: Paul Hocksenar.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. But this investment will happen globally and the US may see a decline in VC-funded startups in 2011. Investors will be bullish on startups. Social media will continue to attract investment, as well as clean energy, nano technologies, and bio-pharma.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

Period, full-stop. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. So to everyone at WP Engine, let me repeat the message from one year ago: Look what we did !

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

Interestingly, it looks like the Midas List skipped 2010 and changed methodologies considerably in 2011, so you’d need to wait until 2021 to do a true look back. Since I’m mainly doing this for my own interest and this isn’t supposed to be a scientific analysis, I’m going to instead look at the 2019 list and compare it to the 2009 list.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

She was a data analyst and has been in People and leadership roles since 2011. Unlike “traditional” departments such as Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, BD, Customer Support/Success, People is a relatively new leadership function. Posted new coaching pilot to our leadership team for feedback.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

So it was a timely conversation at this year’s Upfront Summit because the week of the Summit, Sequoia had announced that it was transitioning leadership from Jim Goetz to Roelof Botha (and US operations to Alfred Lin). The great firms transition day-to-day leadership and often those who don’t fail to protect their “franchise value.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. More phenomenal photos from 2011 are in the Other section below.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

As Syria destabilized in 2011, he remained in the United States and decided to focus on curing diseases through drug development, a decision that led Dr. Hanna further down the path of educational training.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2011

In 2010, IBM released a report titled ‘Capitalizing on complexity, which indicated a survey where 60% or CEO’s listed creativity as the number leadership skill needed over the next 5 years. Leadership. Herding Monkeys – Leadership. Value to its people, value to its customers, and value to its bottom line. And we need them.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. ▼ 2011. (2). Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. What happened?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The 2011 Trends Driving Rural Small Business, my annual look ahead: [link]. Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness) – [link]. Need a Logo?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The 7 Restaurant Industry Trends of 2011 – [link]. 12 Most Helpful Team Leadership Tips – [link]. The 7 Restaurant Industry Trends of 2011 – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 50 Fresh and Beautiful Free Fonts from 2011 – [link]. 50 Fresh and Beautiful Free Fonts from 2011 – [link]. How to guarantee return clients – [link].

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Here are some great tips for how you can manage your career and get yourself a promotion to the highest of leadership positions, CEO. Having an overview of the accounting process is important for leadership skills. Netflix suffered an immediate decline in customers when they raised their prices in 2011. Manage Your Talent.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

But to get to the finish line successfully, there are several key company milestones that leadership must identify and address. Founder Labs in 2011, Everett pitched an idea to make calendars more useful for executive assistants. It’s not uncommon for startups that are laser-focused on fundraising to deprioritize certain challenges.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

Senior Open Championship in 2011 and for the 2012 BMW (Fedex playoff), as well as play with celebrities, politicians, and other professional athletes. Lot of charisma, lot of skill but his real forte was leadership. He had the opportunity to serve as Tournament Liaison for the U.S.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. TechStars Boston – Boston chapter of TechStars. Applications due Nov 20 th ! Dog Patch Labs - Free workspace run by Polaris Ventures. No cost, not formal strings attached. CIC - High quality, flexible office space.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. My hope for 2011: Companies just decide to stop sucking – [link]. Make Crowdsourcing Work for Your Business – [link].

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Heesen observed in his blog post what he expects will become apparent when Q3 2011 VC investment statistics are released next week : “ you can bet the total dollars invested into start-up companies will be a multiple of the amount raised. .” In related news, Mark Heesen, NVCA President, announced today that U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 42 Fresh PS Tutorials In Early 2011 – [link]. Top 10 Tech Investing Trends For 2011 – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Brandanew

AUGUST 19, 2016

About Author: Shahid Mansuri co-founded Peerbits , a leading mobile app development company, in 2011. His visionary leadership and flamboyant management style has yielded fruitful results for the company. To share your insights as a guest author on Brandanew, check out our guidelines HERE.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2011

For those of you unfamiliar with Yiddish, the word ‘mishegoss’ is defined as craziness or senseless activity, and as small business-people we can certainly relate to that concept, particularly as the holidays loom and the year comes to an end.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Six Social Media Trends for 2011 – [link]. Social business in 2011 – [link].

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

« Picking Ventures: Part 1 | Main. | » September 28, 2011.  Mike Markulla came with the first investments - as a cofounder -- because investors felt the company needed leadership that could attract talent to be able to grow and he brought in Scott. November 2011. September 2011. March 2011.

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View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. Bottom line, Chewy appears to be a pretty robust commerce business: It has a solid leadership position in a large and growing category.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

He was on the Salesforce.com leadership team until he left to start High Alpha in 2015. While Scott’s attributes could be for any leader, they are particularly relevant to SaaS CEOs given the dynamic of how high-growth SaaS companies – and great leadership teams – need to work to scale. Start with the end in mind.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

Organizational change of this magnitude requires a combination of strong executive leadership, new tools and techniques, and bottoms-up energy and exploration. Through executive leadership, individual innovators are being given the mandate to try a new approach based on rapid experimentation and customer feedback.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 2011 edition) – data on crowdSPRING’s community – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Who are we? And where do we come from?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 15, 2016

Since most leadership teams put together strategy docs annually and/or quarterly, HR should ensure that new managers get copies and should encourage new managers to ask their bosses to walk through anything that may be unfamiliar to them. How HR can help: HR should encourage new managers to get onto their bosses’ calendars early and often.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Not only do they need to have a high level of diversified technical prowess and proficiency, but they also need to possess strong leadership and project management capabilities. Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO. Solid leadership is essential to the success of any team.

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View from Seed

MAY 31, 2023

A couple of years later, as reported by the Harvard Business Review in 2011 , a survey of ~500 entrepreneurs in the UK found that serial founders frequently refrain from learning from their failures to minimize the psychological impact. Ash was NextView’s 2022-2023 MBA Associate. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Krystal is co-owner of the leadership training company Klemmer and Associates. She is a transformational facilitator in experiential leadership training, author and platform speaker. She is the daughter of the internationally recognized leading trainer in leadership and Character Development, Brian Klemmer.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

Jobs’ death on 5 Oct 2011 at the age of 56 due to pancreatic cancer has been one of the most talked about death in recent history. In a recent article on Harvard Business Review , Isaacson shared what he considered to be the real leadership lessons of Steve Jobs. These are worth nothing, and are summarized as follows: 1.

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