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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Matching America Community Leadership 63

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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Matching Founder eCommerce Portfolio 25

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Find the right investment advisor, or member of your advisory board, and the “match-making” will happen. entrepreneur startup angel funding match Paul Graham business Fundraising is brutal.

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Matching Advisory Board Angel Investor Database 52

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. The post Global EIR and Silicon Valley Bank Funding Match appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Silicon Valley Matching Global Massachusetts 52

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 Partner Reputation 86

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.

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Matching Differentiation Product Search 37

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.

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Matching Dilution Global Merger 57

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 Campaign 104

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 26

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2015

Hiring a great support team is like casting a great movie or finding the perfect match on PlentyOfFish. 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 Search Viral 24

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.

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PPC Matching Search Clickthrough 25

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Well, it’s been a while since we last explored the topic of business plans and plenty has changed. The age of the 80-page plan has passed and has been replaced with the 140-character attention span.

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Matching Small Business Business Plan Balance Sheet 50

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.

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Valuation Ratchet Matching Down Round 22

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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Algorithm Matching Social Media Networking 3

Inc Startups

JULY 3, 2014

Here''s how to avoid setting your best people up for a fall

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Matching Employee 18

Inc Startups

APRIL 16, 2013

Flash Food Recovery uses a smartphone app to help get excess food from restaurants, hotels, and convention centers to the people who need it most. Americans throw out about $165 billion in food each year. Yet some 16.7 million U.S.

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Flash Matching Arizona Phoenix 31

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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Matching Early Stage Global Leadership 23

Inc Startups

APRIL 11, 2016

From an entrepreneurial point of view, it's important to recognize the significance of pricing strategy when launching a startup or growing a business

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Matching Startup 12

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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Matching Las Vegas Singapore Global 14

Inc Startups

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Whether you're a Napoleon, Mother Teresa or Next Generation Steve Jobs, your workspace can mimic your leadership style

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Leadership Matching 12

Inc Startups

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Yes, a job interview should be more like a date than a beauty pageant, but let's not take the analogy too far

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 18, 2014

As I try to find ways to do more to help our community and generally “do more” (more on that here and here and here ), I’ve created an organization called MATCH. The idea is fairly simple: match digital marketers/technologists with non-profits or other community groups.

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Matching Community Programming Atlanta 30

Taffy Williams

JANUARY 31, 2013

Match the people to the correct task! The matching of shapes seems like a simple concept. Fitting pieces into a puzzle requires matching shapes if you want to see the final picture. The matching of pieces of something is critical to building everything.

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Matching IP Hiring Charlotte 23

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 20, 2011

The aim of this article is to help you (and me) understand how our time in the blogosphere helps us access our creativity and fine tune our creative gifts. It’s also aimed at inspiring you to keep going, to keep reaching for those things you set out to achieve, and to remind you why it’s worth it.

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Matching Restful Internet Audience 21

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.

Matching 12

Matching Oregon Incubator California 12

Inc Startups

MARCH 24, 2015

From monitoring the darkest corners of the web to getting government requests cleared more quickly, startups are growing by tackling data overload

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Web Matching Government Startup 15

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 20, 2016

With all the talk about mobile taking over the world it’s easy to forget that there’s still more traffic on the desktop. This holiday season just released by Adobe shows that on some days there was more traffic on mobile than desktop, but that mostly the desktop is ahead.

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Matching Networking Sales Mobile 14

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Is it because there are more worthy companies for investment all of a sudden, or are VCs driven by the need to deploy some of their capital before the end of the calendar year?

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Matching Israel Due Diligence Stealth 31

Inc Startups

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The parent company of online dating sites Tinder, Match.com, and OkCupid, says it has more than $1 billion in revenue

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Revenue Matching IPO 13

Inc Startups

MAY 18, 2016

Learning the latest research doesn't teach you to lead. Practice does

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Matching 8

ConversionXL

MARCH 14, 2017

You generally use this either to match your marketing communications and messaging strategy with what aligns to your customer profile, or to fuel product design and development decisions. That way, you can guarantee message match from ad to landing page.

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Conversion Audience PPC Analytics 31

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.

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Matching Agile Metrics Customer 15

Inc Startups

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Learn 7 key ways to match your brand with the perfect influencer - it'll be a match made in heaven

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Matching 7

Inc Startups

MAY 24, 2016

Vital Vio makes LED white light that disinfects indoor environments--without harming humans. Now, anyplace with a high bacteria count will be less likely to make us sick

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Matching Startup 11

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 8, 2016

PR & eCommerce: A Match Made in Heaven and How to Leverage It to Help Your Business Grow written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. PR and eCommerce – A Match Made in Heaven.

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Social Media Media Channel Advertising 13

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 1, 2017

That will register it for our match. We will match your donation up to $30k of total donations this weekend. Philanthropy #earthmatch earthjustice monthly matchPlanet Earth needs a good lawyer.

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Campaign Government Email Matching 33

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.

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Detroit Baltimore United States Campaign 2

Inc Startups

DECEMBER 9, 2015

One of the biggest problems I continuously see is a company struggling to get quality freelancers. One of the company's that believes it has a solution to this problem is Toptal

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Matching 24

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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Government Washington Email Cost 2

Wired Wired West

MAY 6, 2013

You have a startup, or an idea for a startup, or a cousin with an idea for a startup. But you don’t have extra money to fund it. Nor do you have a ton of time if you want to keep your current job and the lights on. You want to know how to pitch [.]. How Angel investor Business Funding General Assembly Investment Investor Los Angeles Marcus Filipovich Pasadena Angel pitch deck pitch investor Seed Funding Seed money Series A round Silicon Beach Startup company Tech Startups Venture capital

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Matching Los Angeles Seed Money Angel Investor 14