Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

“American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. We’re engineers laying down foundational tech that others will build on top of. It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.”

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

The teams out of top engineering schools like Stanford, CMU, MIT, Virginia Tech, and others that competed in the DARPA Challenges in 2004 / 2005 / 2007 now make up the backbone of the R&D teams for most of the commercial efforts in this space. So How Will We Get to Driverless Cars?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. The courses offered by edX run the gamut from the usual university courses in arts and humanities, science, and engineering, to business-related courses offered by well-known schools like the Wharton School of Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

We reasonably assure that they have oil for their engines, in the form of logistical, administrative, and professional support services that reduce their risk. The latest entry is DayOne Ventures , just opened for business in Southwest Virginia, and seeking applicants. What’s special about these operations?

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Independent testing done by West Virginia University revealed that VW diesel cars were not in fact clean when compared to competitors, and exceeded EPA regulations governing emissions. The company then admitted that they had engineered a defeat device which detected when the vehicle was undergoing emissions testing.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. For example, the F-35/B-21/KC-46 aircraft, Ford-Class Carriers, Columbia-class SSBN, Virginia-class SSN, M-1 tank upgrades, etc. Today, there are 88 Major Defense Acquisition Programs (billion+$’s.)

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Bill Austin March 22, 2007 11:08 AM Dennis McDonald in Alexandria, Virginia USA said. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Engineering & Accounting Svcs. West Virginia. West Virginia. . - Amusement & Recreation. Auto Repair, Parts & Services. Beauty Salons, Barber Shops. Computer & Software Services. Drycleaning/Laundry Services. Educational Services. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. Freight, Moving/Delivery. Legal Services. New Mexico.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Randolph Barker, professor of management in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business has studied dogs in the workplace, and found that bringing them to work resulted in a measurable decline in stress among workers over the course of a day. Stringer works for EYP, an architecture, engineering and building technology firm.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. The courses offered by edX run the gamut from the usual university courses in arts and humanities, science, and engineering, to business-related courses offered by well-known schools like the Wharton School of Business.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Next-generation datacenters must pay particular attention to energy-efficient computing platforms such as the approach taken by Calxeda,” said Professor Wu Feng of the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, noted expert in green innovation technology, renowned inventor of Green Destiny and founder (..)

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 17, 2020

Emporia, Kansas’ town leaders partnered with Emporia’s Main Street Program to develop a “code team” that unites code officials, firefighters, engineers and zoning staff to meet new and expanding business owners, explaining the particular requirements to set up shop.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The focus of a CTO, a position akin to and occasionally still referred to as "vice president of engineering," is typically to develop and implement new technologies. In a start-up context, bands are formed sometimes by happenstance, and my head of engineering absolutely acts as the CTO," Teree says. "We That said, there are nuances.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. Congressman Lipinski Gets It.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. For example, the F-35/B-21/KC-46 aircraft, Ford-Class Carriers, Columbia-class SSBN, Virginia-class SSN, M-1 tank upgrades, etc. Read about all the class sessions here. Almost all are legacy systems – designed to fight 20th century wars.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. But I was bad at the “business” of being a motivational speaker.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Stanford University computer science grad students Larry Page and Sergy Brin created a search engine called “BackRub” not as a business venture, but as a Ph.D. They later renamed their search engine research project “Google,” and the rest is history.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition of PBM adds another growth engine for Perrigo, which already has a 75% share of the store brand over the counter (OTC) drug market in the US. Since 2003 the global market for children’s nutrition and infant formula products has nearly doubled reaching about $23 billion in 2009.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2011

In Williamstown, West Virginia they spoke to the city planner and a member of the budget committee. In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma it was the city engineer and director of public works. In Amarillo, Texas they had interviews with the head of the bidding process, the Street light manager, Director of Public Works and the utilities engineer.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C. It has since been adopted by the entire federal research community. Lessons Learned.

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Brandanew

JULY 11, 2015

For instance Virginia Slims is a cigarette targeted at women. For example Google started as a search engine. It’s hard and sometimes impossible to change brand image, so it’s best to know what you’re aiming at, before you invest hard earned dollars. Brand positioning. Brand extension.

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Transformify

JULY 18, 2017

As virtually every politician across the political spectrum will eagerly remind you, residents of places like Youngstown, Ohio, or McDowell County, Virginia, are pissed off—and they have every right to be, because their local economies have been shattered in recent decades while jobs funneled out to big cities or overseas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Eric- I am an industrial design student at Virginia Tech. It wont even get passed the registrant information screen to even get to selecting what you want to register for. Tried it with multiple browsers. March 19, 2009 9:34 PM Chris Morgan said.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Even an extraordinary engineer or product lead who have built a breakthrough product aren’t guaranteed success unless they can get access to capital, get much needed press to drive low-cost customer acquisition and persuade fickle business leaders to join their company and help them shape their businesses beyond tech innovation.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

So we were two-thirds design, one-third engineering when we started. A lot of engineers like first principles. And just to actually back up, I think it was 2017, there was this rally that we heard about, in Charlottesville, Virginia: Unite the Right. mayor, Mayor Bowser, the governors of Virginia and Maryland.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. That’s what scientists and engineers needed to embrace. Errol : And we did. What made him call Steve?

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Hill in Virginia. Examples are a company-owned manufacturing facility, big data or machine learning engineers, DOD proposal writers, venture capital, etc. The team certainly got out of the building this week. In between their classes they flew to the east coast and attended the Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Drone Demo-Day at Fort A.P.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JULY 21, 2017

This year, engineering students took part in a campus hackathon, building a custom “smart hive” to better monitor the bees. Another media piece, from Northern Virginia Mag , that explains HBI’s work with Covanta to reestablish meadow space in Fairfax County, VA on the property of a landfill.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. I knew I wanted something search engine-friendly, and I’d always used the term photo safaris when inviting friends along to shoot around New York, so I went with that. Thanks to Ethan Warren, Corner Piece Productions ! #7

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

So we were two-thirds design, one-third engineering when we started. A lot of engineers like first principles. And just to actually back up, I think it was 2017, there was this rally that we heard about, in Charlottesville, Virginia: Unite the Right. mayor, Mayor Bowser, the governors of Virginia and Maryland.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

From there, I went to Circuit City in Richmond, Virginia and was there for four years in the throes of battle against Best Buy and all those things. Then spent eight-and-a-half, nine years at General Electric in the '90s, working for Jack Welch and significant other leaders there.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2014

Kevin Jordan is an authorized Duct Tape Marketing Consultant living in central Virginia. Related posts: Podcasting: The Referral Engine Multiplier Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing. He teaches several online courses on small business marketing, including video marketing.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Those that do engage, like the Roger Smith Hotel in New York, the Hotel Max in Seattle, the Elkhorn Inn in West Virginia or the Authentic Seacoast resorts in Nova Scotia are rewarded with word of mouth support and deeper relationships with their customers. So many see social media as a threat, not an opportunity.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

This is a bigger government footprint, proportionally, than in Virginia’s Fairfax and Arlington counties, long considered ground zero for Washington, D.C., taps UI engineering students for help developing its line of motorcycle accessories. bureaucracy, the consultants say. GoNano Technologies Inc. GoNano Technologies Inc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

They have 23 different blogs focused on different flavors of solder and they basically create the trust with their engineering customers to answer every question that they may have. They have more skews than Amazon.com, they sell electronics geared to engineers.

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Pascal's View

JANUARY 28, 2010

Startups, the engine of American innovation and an important source of job growth nationally, took a severe beating in 2009 because so few were funded by the venture community. The most important startup centers are Silicon Valley, metropolitan Boston, Seattle and Austin and, increasingly, northern Virginia.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

From what I have seen in conferences where Amazon engineers gave talks, they seriously test *everything* on their UX/UI. StuntCoders Located in Belgrade, SERBIA StuntCoders is agile team of freelance software engineers who love their call. ” – I call BS.

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