SoCal CTO

APRIL 21, 2010

I guess it was bound to happen, I now seem to be writing a series of posts around Matching. This is where I’ll keep my list of these posts, related articles and posts from other sources: Social Media Matching – Looks at how in many ways, everything is matching. I think of LinkedIn as a A 24x7 networking cocktail party with 60M+ people – the challenge in that environment is how you get matched to other people. Social Filtering – Content matching based on social signals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2017

So, your Monthly Match team ( Fred Wilson , Joanne Wilson , Amy Batchelor , Susan Danziger , Albert Wenger and me) is launching this month’s match for Planned Parenthood. Instead, I’m going to encourage those of you who agree with me (and Fred, Joanne, Amy, Susan, and Albert) to join us in our monthly match and help raise at least $60k for Planned Parenthood. Here is how the monthly match works. Go to our match offer page and click the big Donate button.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Today, DonorsChoose has a match across the entire site for any donations for books. It’s DonorsChoose Book Match Day. The post DonorsChoose.org Book Match Day appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Amy and I love to read. Growing up, one of my favorite places in the world was the hammock in our backyard with a book. As an adult, one of my favorite places is our living room, on my couch, with Amy on her couch, and the dogs laying on the floor between us, while we read.

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Matching Alaska Search 96

deal architect

MARCH 9, 2015

My friend Josh Greenbaum writes Implementing SaaS: If it’s easy, it’s because you’re not trying He makes the case SaaS is an complex as on-premise, may be even more so. He cites The other way you can tell that complexity. Cloud Computing, SaaS Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP

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Matching Cloud Software 237

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Fred Wilson , Joanne Wilson , Amy , and I are doing our second Monthly Match. We will be matching $20,000 of contributions that our respective communities make to NILC. Since we are matching 1:1, each dollar you contribute gets NILC another dollar. If this is important to you, please join in on our Monthly Match and make a contribution to NILC. That will register it for our match. This one is in support of the National Immigration Law Center.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Amy and I decided to match all of the funding for first-time projects in Colorado on DonorsChoosee.org. The criteria for our match is that these are projects put up by new teachers on the DonorsChoose.org platform. First, if you want to support a teacher and students in Colorado, go make a contribution of any amount on DonorsChoose.org from this link and we’ll automatically match it. We’ll match those projects as well, so getting more online is an awesome thing.

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Colorado Matching Search 122

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2017

Our month match for June is The Human Utility. Fred Wilson, Joanne Wilson, Amy Batchelor, and I are matching up to $20,000 of contributions via our #GiveWater campaign. To donate and have your contribution matched, go here and hit the big blue Donate button. The post Monthly Match: The Human Utility #GiveWater appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Philanthropy #givewater monthly match the human utility

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. Each of these startup ideas has at it's core a matching algorithm that reduces the friction between a consumer and some need. In the case of college matching, it's the complexity of what college matches best with the person's needs.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

Ideaspotting Asia interns internship job Malaysia skills matching startup The startup scenes in Southeast Asia – Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, among others – have been thriving, attracting scores of students and young graduates who want to be part of their local startup movement. And many of these startups, some flush with cash and others eyeing international expansion, are hiring. The problem, however, is knowing which startups are hiring.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Today, Amy and I are announcing a matching gift from our Anchor Point Foundation to the Startland News’ Give A Start donor campaign. We will match any contributions from this point forward, up to $25,000.

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Kansas City Kansas Matching Equity 109

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2016

By Ernst Gemassmer, Chairman, Startup Professionals As a retired executive I now reflect on my own leadership styles in different situations during my extensive career. My leadership style has evolved over time and I am wondering whether this is related to increasing experience or different situations. I have concluded that leadership styles must be in line with the ‘life cycle’ of companies, as discussed below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2015

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to pick the startup model that best matches their real motivation. The exciting part about being an entrepreneur is that you can tailor the role to match your real motivations. Being an entrepreneur seems to be one of the most popular lifestyle aspirations these days.

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Matching Intellectual Property Startup Business Model 223

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2017

In response to this opportunity, SVB is joining Amy and me in a match challenge to raise $300,000 for Global EIR. So – your $1 donation gets a $2 match. SVB had previously supported the Global EIR program in Boston with the University of Massachusetts, so I was delighted when they jumped on the opportunity to join a fundraising match with me across the entire country. The post Global EIR and Silicon Valley Bank Funding Match appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

Time is too precious to waste trying to close a deal with the wrong investors at the wrong time. Luckily, not all investors are looking for the same thing, so it pays to know what type of investors are most interested in what your startup brings to the table. The key is understanding how potential investors see you, and especially how they view the maturity stage of your startup.

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Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 181

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

There is no time to be changing your culture to match the lifecycle. Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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Matching Marketing Dilution Startup 198

Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2013

Over the past few months I’ve watched several powerful and successful VCs and entrepreneurs damage their reputations by having their words not match up with their actions. It’s similar to what Amy and I wrote about in Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur when we talk about your words having to match your actions. And having them match your actions matters matters even more.

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Matching Due Diligence Reputation Partner 153

YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

got in the ring in front of 700 people, with a rather large woman, and subsequently raised over $2,000 for cancer research. Lifestyle boxing business advice business lessons lifestyle sports starting a business

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2018

by Gregg L. Witt, author of “ The Gen Z Frequency: How Brands Tune In and Build Credibility “ Most people, at some point, have experienced a form of bullying. In fact, a lot of bullies were bullied, and they are just doing what they were taught. There is no excuse for this behavior, however, and awareness and education around the issue has made a big difference. What more can we do to address the effects of bullying?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 22, 2010

One of the common questions that I commonly get is: Tony, what inputs should we use as the basis for our matching algorithm? The people asking the above question don’t have that research and they also don’t really know how the matches should occur. For example, do you match people with similar personality traits or complementary or opposites? Without the research, you are in the position of making educated guesses at what makes a good match.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 30, 2010

Everything is Matching The real promise comes about as we get better tools for navigating all of this. If you know me - which you might not because you only have a thin relationship :) – you know that I’m going to say that a lot of this comes back to Matching Algorithms. There are many, very interesting and very complex matching problems that need to get solved. Some days I start to feel that everything is matching. Well it’s also knowing what kind of match you need.

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Matching Social Media Media Social Bookmarking 169

ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2019

The post Why Blockchain and Remanufacturing are a Perfect Match appeared first on ReadWrite. In its purest form, remanufacturing is taking previously used products or their previously used parts, putting them all back together again. You then reselling them — generally at a cheaper price. Remanufacturing is common for such products as medical devices, wood, computers, machinery, vehicles, toner cartridges, and much more.

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Matching Technology Product Entrepreneur 109

Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2020

Startup Mental Health Match takes inspiration from dating sites, connecting therapists and individuals using an innovative profiling model. Contributed by Mental Health Match: With need for therapy surging due to the pandemic and current events, help is available immediately for Austin residents from the comfort of their own home regardless of their income and needs. Mental Health Match is anonymous and personal data is never stored or sold.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2010

I’ve had several recent conversations with startups who are building companies based on matching. One of the things that I think gets commonly missed by these companies when I first talk to them is that they need more than providing matching, they need performance support. Match Performance Support When I get asked about eHarmony, a lot of people miss that there’s some very interesting performance support going on after the match.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2012

Founded in 2010, Las Vegas-based startup ExhibitMatch ( www.exhibitmatch.com ) hopes to solve that particular problem – it is a global online interactive bidding platform that matches trade show exhibitors with stand builders from around the world.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2019

This is a relatively new forex trading method used by beginner investors to match up the success of experienced ones. The post FinTech and Forex – A Match Made in Heaven appeared first on The Startup Magazine. The connection between Forex and technology is an obvious one. Because of the characteristics of currency trading, it’s normal to assume that technology can help investors perfect their strategies and make the most of the money they put in this trading method.

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Rob Go

MARCH 5, 2015

When entrepreneurs think about approaching VC’s to cultivate a relationship for a round, they often try to match their company with what the VC has funded in the past. So, I think it’s sometimes tough to pattern-match based on sectors. But I do think it’s pretty successful to pattern-match based on founders. So if you’re doing you are thinking about how to best approach investors, don’t automatically just pattern-match based on sectors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness.

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Matching Agile Startup Metrics 172

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2019

The post Oracle & The Cloud: A Match Made in Heaven appeared first on The Startup Magazine. The storage capacity of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and CPUs have always been an issue in the tech world. People want more and more storage. Many startups are big data-dependent as they implement innovative solutions. Over time, hardware manufacturers have produced storage devices of all kinds from floppy disks to flash disks and memory cards.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It doesn’t happen by accident. Not every new game site is a Club Penguin or Minecraft. Not every social network is a Facebook or Instagram. Not every texting application is a Twitter. What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? Intrigued by the thought, I recently made a list. It was as much in reaction to my getting blank stares from entrepreneurs when I asked that question as it was for me to better understand the problem itself.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2015

We will keep talking and help him through that process, but right now he has identified a great problem space but hasn’t matched it with a compelling product solution. The best business opportunities match great problem spaces with compelling product solutions. We held our monthly office hours yesterday morning, meeting with twenty idea stage founders over a period of two hours. It’s a a high octane set of fast paced meetings that I look forward to very much.

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Matching Product Differentiation Founder 100

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Do your keywords match what people are typing in the search box ? Having Broad and Modified Broad keywords increases your odds of Google interpreting your keyword as a match to someone’s query. This is how closely the wording of your ads matches the keywords in your ad groups. Does the messaging of your ads match the messaging of your landing page? How Modified Broad Match Works. That’s the sign of Modified Broad match.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2014

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a post Your Words Should Match Your Actions. In my book Startup Life (that I wrote with my wife Amy) I said that one of the key things that has made our relationship work is that I realized “my words had to match my actions.” My biggest behavior change 14 years ago was to focus hard on having my words match my actions, and my actions match my words. But then their words and their actions don’t match up.

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Matching Reputation PR Venture Capital 153

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This is one of the reasons why Irvine, California-based online local media company Local.com has launched its suite of integrated Exact Match local business solutions, targeted at small and medium-sized businesses. Exact Match is designed to help local businesses go beyond the traditional business profile listings online, and expand their online presence to reach ready-to-buy consumers who are searching online for local businesses, products or services. Hyperlocal is in.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2016

For the next 90 days, Amy and I are matching every gift to the Techstars Foundation on a 1:2 basis up to $100,000 from us. The post Matching Grant to the Techstars Foundation to Help Improve Diversity In Entreprenership appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Our overall goal is to raise at least $300,000 for the Techstars Foundation by the end of the summer. If Techstars has touched you in any positive way, I’d request that you consider making a grant to the Techstars Foundation.

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The Next Web

JULY 14, 2018

To the layman UX and SEO (if they even understand what they mean) sound like two entirely unrelated things. The one is about some plumber jabbing away at their phone, while the other is about satisfying the algorithms of a company in Silicon Valley. But we know better. At its core they’re down to the same thing. That’s because the layman doesn’t realize that what Google cares about is ultimately what will satisfy that plumber.

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Matching SEO Algorithm Silicon Valley 128

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2015

Hiring a great support team is like casting a great movie or finding the perfect match on PlentyOfFish. But anyone who has played the online dating game also understands how much “noise” exists and how challenging it can be to sort through dozens or hundreds of potential matches to find “the one.” Macrophoto of two match heads , Wikipedia. Last week I wrote about customer service and the importance of scheduling and allocating your support resources.

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Matching Small Business Viral Search 78

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

While there are many programs that match students with internship opportunities at large, established companies - including, of course, the traditional campus job fair - it can be a challenge for small companies, startups, and non-profits to find qualified interns. The college recruiting experience is broken," says Andrew Maguire, whose experiences as a student led him to found InternMatch , a startup that, as the name suggests, matches prospective student interns with organizations.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 8, 2014

No matter how comfortable we may have gotten in the business world, it is still important to pay attention to your attire and match it to your client’s expectations. But the closer you can come to matching the attire of those you are meeting with, the more likely it is that they will feel you are one of them. The post Match Your Audience With Your Attire appeared first on Mike Michalowicz. There used to be a time when I went to all my meetings in a suit and tie.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 4, 2013

After many suggestions from colleagues and friends, I finally got a chance to read The First 90 Days some time ago, a book about making significant impact in the first 90 days of a new role. In the book, there’s a section dedicated to the the progression of business situations (of company, org, or product). This is called the StaRS Model. Depending on the business situation, your strategy will be different – either learning more or doing more and either offense or defense.

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Matching Product Technology Marketing 55

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Today it was announced that some top Venture Capital firms will provide matching investments. The Capital Factory Fund will match that $50K with another $50K. The benefits of putting your tech startup into the Capital Factory incubator continue to grow. To get accepted into the incubator, you must get two lead mentors to each invest $25K in your company. Then Silverton and FLOODGATE will each kick in $25K bringing your total funding to $150K when you get into the incubator.

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Matching Incubator Venture Capital Startup 71

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Match closed up 23% at a valuation of $3.5bn and Square was up 45% at a valuation of $4.2bn. Match.com and Square both enjoyed strong first days after their IPOs yesterday. That’s good news for both companies, because first day declines can sour a stock for months to come. However in the run up to its IPO Square had indicated it would go out at between $11 and $13 per share, and then ended up at $9, and in October last year Square raised $150m at a $6bn valuation.

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Matching IPO Valuation Ratchet 92

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 4, 2013

After many suggestions from colleagues and friends, I finally got a chance to read The First 90 Days some time ago, a book about making significant impact in the first 90 days of a new role. In the book, there’s a section dedicated to the the progression of business situations (of company, org, or product). This is called the StaRS Model. Depending on the business situation, your strategy will be different – either learning more or doing more and either offense or defense.

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Matching Product Technology Marketing 40