Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. In the bandwidth example, picking a point in 1986 and a point in 1998 exactly predicts the bandwidth I have in 2012.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. Angels & Recycled Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Tools for Hackathons – added Dec 2012. Social networking. IP Location Tools.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Essentially a recommendation engine matching tenants and landlords, Home on Demand empowers the latter to handpick verified tenants in mere minutes at a cost that it claims ‘beats lettings agents’ MightyFingers ( MightyFingers.com ). Home on Demand ( HomeOnDemand.co.uk ). Qminder ( QminderApp.com ). Rawstream ( Rawstream.com ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2017

Entrepreneur media is a parent company and then there’s the magazine, Entreprenuer.com, Entrepreneur Press and now Entrepreneur network which is their video arm. Jill: Very much so. It’s all the same. John: And they will likely get you maybe some speaking gigs at some of their events I’m guessing? That’s a plan.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  It is very expensive if you’re the entrepreneur since it doubles the cost to the company of paying dividends to the entrepreneur.   However, I assume that the proposed business solves a real problem that people are willing to pay for and that it may be lest costly, more efficient, and IP-protected. [5] October 2012.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2007

If they have protectable IP, their growth should accelerate. If its click rates, or purchases per hour, or acquisition costs, give it a try. You may find that while your initial cost/per is higher than planned, it is OK if your repetitiveness is more frequent than you had thought. Then build a projection based on actual testing.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 30, 2007

I think we thought that the good product guys could get away with it because the detail of good customer service was unimportant with strong IP. That pricing drove the system that assigned a shipping cost to each order. That pricing drove the system that assigned a shipping cost to each order. October 2012. April 2013.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Why do I do it?

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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