Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. 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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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I’ve spent a lot of years as theoretically being my own boss, including more than 10 years as sole proprietor business planning consultant, working on my own with clients; and more than 10 years building a company, as founder and owner, working with employees. In my case, being my own boss, or not, was never really the point.

Cleveland 60

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Software Review 141

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Finding the best starting position is a learning process that takes time and bandwidth – two scarce resources. It does so in a friendly, intuitive manner, with a visual design board and 3 worksheets to guide the process. Worksheet 3: Design your agile focus strategy. You can download the Navigator and its worksheets here.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 17, 2022

Founder of rental matchmaker technology platform Pickmee, Felix Scholz, believes this is the first place all entrepreneurs need to start. Spooky Productions Director and Founder of virtual live event platforms Sideline.Live and LiveEventApp, Luke Thompson, always watches trends to stay one step ahead of the market. Felix Scholz.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

Dan Caruso, the co-founder/CEO of Zayo Group , is one of them. I had recently left Level 3 Communications. We have 3 offices in Colorado, with our headquarters on the 2nd floor of 29th Street mall. In June of 2006, we sold what remained of ICG Communications to Level 3. Point 3 requires more of an explanation.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2014

Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants his maturing company to start focusing on “loving the people we serve.” Stress ignites our primal, selfish survival instincts, and leaves us no mental or emotional bandwidth with which to care about others. Not caring hurts profitability and the bottom line. Clearly, we must turn this trend around.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms. So when I started talking with Evan Rifkin almost a year ago about the company he was planning to build, I was intrigued. He knows the ad management and ad network businesses. So what about the ad management business excites me?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. In fact, that number is probably even more than the average VC fund has the bandwidth to make. One way to measure that is to imagine the theoretical $500-$1mm angel round that a founder is looking to raise.

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Austin Startup

JULY 8, 2017

I can’t tell you how many times I run into first-time founders who’ve been fed absolute nonsense from ‘advisors’ ‘mentors’ or similarly named people about their ‘secrets’ for managing legal spend. It usually takes experience in the market for business people to truly understand the realities of hiring and working with lawyers. Me: “Great.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 28, 2015

Some reasons for mobile’s low reviews include: Low bandwidth that limits photos and load times. Kyle Wong is the CEO & Co-Founder of Pixlee , a SaaS platform that helps brands leverage customer photos to improve marketing. Small screen that clutters and/or eliminates information. Difficulty in mobile app downloads.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. Well when I hear that I think of writing checks because I feel like that’s all I do sometimes as a founder of start ups is write checks because you don’t see them when they come in. We are a company of five, and we have two co- founders, myself and Adam Ride.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2014

by Zeynep Ilgaz, co-founder and president of Confirm BioSciences and TestCountry. As your bandwidth expands during your first growth spurt or the market changes, you may have the urge to try lots of different things. Your little business has been in the “cute stage” for a while now, and you love it dearly. Plan for the unexpected.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2018

Personal branding helps founders and executives establish credibility, which is crucial for launching successful businesses, especially if they start multiple companies. When it comes to making money online, business and personal branding are huge drivers of sales and influence. Custom development. WordPress DIY.

Entrepreneur 107

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The temptation, therefore, is to stop everything, to clear bandwidth for some very real and very pressing crisis management. I built my first startup in Argentina during the economic crisis-turned-revolution in 2001,” writes Frederic Kerrest , “and my co-founder and I started Okta in the depths of the U.S. recession in 2009.”.

Marketing 121

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Reply Chris Owens , on July 29, 2009 at 3:55 pm Said: Many many years ago I had a job in tech support at Creative Labs. A company called Aapps, founded by Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari), make a product called the MicroTV, Digivideo, and Digivideo Color in the 1990 – 1991 timeframe that displayed live video in a window on the Mac.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Mobile users just don’t have the bandwidth for more. They also literally don’t have the bandwidth, in many cases, since cellular strength still varies widely by time of day, location, and cell tower density. So in addition to keeping your mobile presence simple, keep it fast to load. “The Offer perks for buying with mobile.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

We market to four populations: High-potential founders. I use Hootsuite to post about 3 times per week, typically with a link to one of my past blog posts. I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. . 3) Documenting best practices. Linkedin. Hootsuite. I welcome suggestions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2022

Mike i s the Co-founder and Analyst at Near Media where he researches and reports on reputation, reviews, and local search. 3:21] Are you suggesting that images are also important for things not quite as clearly defined as products? [4:45] Marketing Podcast with Mike Blumenthal. And that that was a, a help.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

Tip: Many agencies don’t have the bandwidth nor resources to do this for each and every client, but will outsource these types of services to experts in the field. 3) Co-create content with other authorities in your niche market. You should always produce content you know your audience will consume and come back to for more!

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 28, 2020

Employees at startups and SMBs look up to the founders and HR managers for direction and confidence. The founders or the top management should ideally prepare an action plan in consultation with the HR department to ensure business continuity amidst the pandemic while clearly prioritizing employee health above all. Talent Acquisition.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2012

But consider the other tools they need—bandwidth, space, freedom, and opportunities to think deeply and circle back. So: Do you have a break room for employees? Is there somewhere they can go to rejuvenate and recalibrate? How can you encourage them to do one thing at a time, rather than multitask? Establish success systems.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2015

While certain processes and strategies may have worked for a business early on, a rapidly increasing customer base and the increased bandwidth needed in response will often bring those very same process to their natural breaking point. Once you have these 3 validations, with a few sales, or commitments, then the scaling is on!”

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The more you do to minimize task-switching over the day, the more mental bandwidth you’ll have for activities that matter. Michael Dermer is the founder/author of “ The Lonely Entrepreneur , a methodology to help entrepreneurs with the struggle. One day per week — preferably in the middle of the week — get eight hours of sleep.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Anthony Bosschem, founder and head of Darwin Analytics. When people asked, I told them I had 3 people working inside my company. People thought there were already 3 people working here full-time, so why the big fuss about a temp? It was originally published on his blog.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. They advertise ridiculous bandwidth/disk space for the price and the way they provide it is by recycling or killing apps during peak hours. 3 Rob on 12.08.08 Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

When I was first starting companies in the late nineties it took $3 million just to get version one of our product out the door. Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive. You’re trying to raise $3 million at a $6-7 million pre-money (e.g. That founder wasn’t one of your angels. is now a VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. It was then popularized into an Internet meme 3 days later by text an Australian group of guys called Sunny Coast Shake in what garnered about 300,000 views in a short period of time (now at 11.3 Gangnam Style Meets Torso TV.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Be The Beatles Not The Flock Of Seagulls John Greathouse’s Bio ConTraps Part 2 ConTrap Part 3 ConTrap part 4 Startup Children Pt 2 Startup Children Pt 5 Startup Children Pt 3 Startup Children Pt 4 Decision Making 101 Talks: Jason Nazar on how to Persuade. Uncategorized (3). About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? infoChachkie.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. So, what are the things founders can learn to do well BEFORE they can hire a great first product hire to make sure the company stays focused and iterates fast?

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The downside is that for founders, funding may be a bit more challenging and terms will be less aggressive. For late stage companies, I think that you are now going to come face to face with the decisions that you made over the past ~3 years of positive market momentum. So their raw bandwidth for evaluating new investments is reduced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills. Network to find co-founders just as you network to find investors.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Here’s how Ton Wesseling , founder of Online Dialogue , put it: Ton Wesseling: “When users return to an experiment, some of them will have deleted their cookies, some of them (more often a lot!) If you have 3 variations, there is only a 25% change they end up in the same variation. will use a different device.

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