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Moving To Homer, Alaska

Feld Thoughts

I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. During one of the long conversations we had at the time about our future, we started talking about calling it quits and moving to Homer, Alaska. After moving to Boulder, we continued to spend a few weeks in Alaska each summer. Life alaska anchorage homer'

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Exploring The Everyday: Better Meat For a Better Future

View from Seed

I had been working on research that focused on regenerative medicine and also training in cardiology, and started to wonder if some of the emerging technologies of stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and our understanding of how cells become complex tissues, could be applied to fields beyond the biomedical sciences.

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Twitter Link Roundup #69 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

One-way, outbound, non-conversational messages still work – [link]. Snowboarding Alaska’s backcountry from 7.7 What’s next for social media marketing (slides) – [link]. Celebrities in Advertising Are Almost Always a Big Waste of Money – [link]. Crowdsourcing Examples in Business – [link]. Phenomenal.

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Hanging Out In Pioneer Square

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I have a periodic conversation around what happens if one of us died unexpectedly. Feld Technologies was in the inaugural Microsoft Solution Provider program that Dwayne Walker created around 1991. In addition to being LPs in PSL Ventures , we are major investors in PSL Studio and I’m on the board.

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The Power Of Mattering

Duct Tape Marketing

Furthermore, the conversation extends the relevance of mattering beyond parenting and into other spheres of life, including the workplace. 03:48): And what I found was that the anxieties and, and fears I was feeling were also being felt in Alaska, in Maine, in Washington state, in Jackson, Wyoming, in Cleveland, Ohio, in Florida, in Texas.

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After Your First Big Success, What’s Next?

Feld Thoughts

I was thinking about the ‘what’s next’ conversation. I’m sure you’ve seen everything and are all over it, but in my more limited experience, for some people it’s harder than the what’s first conversation (i.e. I had my first exit when I sold my first company (Feld Technologies) at age 28.

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Techstars and The Nature Conservancy

Feld Thoughts

Over the years, we’ve been personally involved in a number of projects, such as protecting the Anchor River in Anchor Point, Alaska (the town Amy grew up in until she was eight.) At a TNC event at our house in June 2016, I had a conversation with Mark Tercek , TNC’s CEO, around innovation.