Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I’ve only worked in what could be considered a “big” company for 18 months (1993 – 1995) and that was the company (AmeriData) that bought my first company (Feld Technologies). Wikipedia reminded me – it’s another Peter Drucker creation from The Practice of Management.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2021

When he’s not helping entrepreneurs and executive-level professionals, he can be found traipsing around the woods near the cabin in which he has lived with his wife and menagerie of pets since 1993. . Questions Sara asks Stu Swineford: Talk to me about your background and how you got involved with so many different aspects of marketing?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2013

1993 vs 2013 pic.twitter.com/P5m3MIsUjk. Top 5 Web Design Tips That Optimize your Site’s Conversion Funnel | InstantShift – crowdspring.co/1f2ACzT. 15 tiny UX elements that can make a big difference | Econsultancy – crowdspring.co/1gU11Be. 40 High Quality And Free Minimalistic Icon Sets – crowdspring.co/1gkGdoX.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

All the way from 1993 to 2000. But this was a time-consuming job not meant for their internal IT departments. Enter outsourcing. Enter India. Image via JES AZNAR/AFP/Getty Images. This is when the IT sector saw a real spurt in activity,” Deshpande said. A lot of people joined the industry from 1995-96.”. and the non-engineering kinds.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Anonymity is the new black: You may remember in the early commercial web era – post 1993, we all had alias names and emails before we felt comfortable enough to convert to our actual human self on line. I guess it’s now just a stage in the evolution of human communication. We could regard this as evidence of its permanence.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I began playing Fantasy Football in 1993 before it was even a big thing. And social networks enabled rapid growth and also the ability to more easily find and play with friends or make new ones. We believe there is a similar trend in Fantasy Sports.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. People point to Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic browser as the point at which everything changed, but that’s not what actually happened.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

My experience with channels started in 1993 and has been almost entirely in stores and chains selling packaged computer software, but I’ve talked to a lot of people dealing in other kinds of channels, and their experiences seem to be quite the same as my own.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. Fast Followers – a better idea. Golder and Gerard J. Tellis had a much more accurate description of what happens to startup companies entering new markets. [3]

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time. Photo Credit: Alex Williams. IBM had its fair share of success in the 80s and early 90s before it started losing its shares. The company then risked becoming utterly irrelevant in the market.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

It plateaued at around $2 million in revenue before we sold it in 1993. We started playing with expanding upon his pithy aphorisms and gathering stories from entrepreneurs, and it clicked. Feld Technologies never became a disruptive company, despite our ambitions.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2020

annually since 1993. million between 1993 and 2020. Before COVID-19. Over the last 5 years the Dominican Republic was a fast growing Caribbean economy. According to the World Bank the country’s economy grew 5.3% The pace accelerated during 2014-2018 with growth rates of 6-7%. Remittances had a role to play in this success story.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

We ran my first company (Feld Technologies) on Lotus Agenda from when the first version of Agenda came out sometime in 1990 to when we sold the company in 1993. Until six weeks ago, my favorite software product of all time was Lotus Agenda.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

In fact in 1984 only about 1,000 hosts across university and corporate labs were linked, and just 130 websites existed in 1993. By 2012 the number of websites would have exploded to 634 million, with a global Internet population of 2.1

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2014

“The Fab Five”—The 1993 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. On April 5, 1993 the two teams went head to head. Failure is rarely the end of the story, especially for businesses. It presents an opportunity to learn from mistakes and, as the Detroit Pistons demonstrated, come back stronger than ever.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 2, 2022

In 1993, Adobe invented the PDF format, and ever since, it has seen various updates, innovations, and modern features. It can contain texts, links, graphics, or tables; basically, any content you wish to show! Perhaps, this is why PDFs are the most popular file extension on the internet today!

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Sassoon, 1993 ; Rubinstein, 1988 ). There are plenty of studies that show no difference between the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces ( Tinker, 1932 ; Zachrisson, 1965 ; Bernard et al., 2001 ; Tullis et al., 1995 ; De Lange et al., 113-123 ).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S. have less than 500 people and they employ 50% of the 121 million workers getting a paycheck. They accounted for 65 percent (or 9.8

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Founded by CEO Richard Klein – who also founded Surface magazine in 1993 – dot429 also has a magazine called 429Magazine that provides a queer professional perspective on current issues, with exclusive content written by industry insiders covering everything from finance and business to leisure and entertainment.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. People point to Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic browser as the point at which everything changed, but that’s not what actually happened.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

A paper by Griffin and Hauser in Marketing Science (1993) defined four aspects to take into consideration when conducting voice of customer research: Customer needs described in the customer’s own words. It’s essentially the in-depth process of capturing customer’s expectations, preferences and aversions – in their own words.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. Back in 1986 when digital marketing was just taking off, a company called ACT! launched a contact management software. All manual operations.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

I was on three other public company boards, including being co-chairman of MessageMedia with Jerry Poch, who was Len’s partner in their previous company (AmeriData Technologies – which had bought my first company – Feld Technologies – in 1993). billion market cap) in the spring of 2000. But he did. With a smile.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. But Heaven or Hell, I’m hoping that they be where I’m a go. Lil Wayne, Swag Surfin.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2014

million pounds in 1993. That’s right, your wealth has pretty much devalued – this is to the extent that 1 million pounds in 2013 is equivalent to 1.3 million pounds in 2003, and a staggering 1.7 Infographic credit: Wish.co.uk ].

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 14, 2014

You can see from the chart below that the number of internet hosts grew 10x from 1989 to 1993 – that’s roughly 2x a year. When asked why he founded Amazon he said that he was working on Wall Street in the early 1990s when someone showed him how fast the internet was growing he knew that something very important was happening.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2013

We got married in 1993. My wife Amy Batchelor and I wrote this one, with contributions from about 20 other entrepreneurial couples. Amy and I have been friends since we met in college in 1984. We have been together as a couple since 1990. Our marriage almost ended in 2001. Today, I am ecstatic in my relationship with Amy.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 21, 2011

On the summer solstice in 1993 we went to the top of Ester Dome in Fairbanks, Alaska and exchanged vows. But we count years from that date on top of Ester Dome in 1993. Amy and I have been married for 18 years. Earlier that day we went to Pay ‘n Save and bought our wedding rings (I think we got six for $1.99).

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Additionally, workers often face harassment in response to taking medical leave, even when it’s covered under The 1993 Family Medical Leave Act. Many workers find themselves on the receiving end of unfair reprimands, needlessly harsh criticism and assorted forms of bullying every day.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 2, 2012

A short letter agreement specifying the equity splits and the boilerplate legal docs were the only legal docs we had until we sold the company in 1993. As my partner Jason Mendelson told me after I sent him this the other day, “If things go well, it’s fine. If they don’t, it’s a f **g disaster.”

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

In 1993 I was the founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization Boston Chapter and member #1. You present to a group of judges including Warren (MAK Technologies), Rich Farrell (Full Armor), Clark Waterfall (Boston Search Group), and Michael Hackel (DiningIN) who are all EO Boston members.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In Dan Rather’s book he talks about Ruth Bader Ginsberg who was appointed the the Supreme Court in 1993. Since our industry has been so heavily dominated by male leadership in both tech and venture capital for so long, this “inclusion” is something that would benefit us all in making better decisions. 8% of VC partnerships, for example).

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Peter: John, what if I built my website in 1993 and maybe it’s due for an update? You built your website in 1993? Thank you so much for coming on and giving us those tips for the five things that your website must do. Jonathan: Hold on a second. Peter: That’s pre-Google. Jonathan: Ahead of the game, man.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

We were introduced in the spring of 1993 by Jim Galvin, CEO of Allcom, which had just been acquired by Len’s company Sage Alerting Systems. It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. After 89 years on this planet, Len Fassler passed away on Friday. Len was my Yoda.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 19, 2014

Here’s the quick story: in 1993, we founded our first company, Pinpoint Technologies, which grew from a basement startup to a successful multinational company with $50 million in annual sales and over 250 employees. Together we’ve had successes and failures over the last 25 years, and we’ve laughed a ton along the way.

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