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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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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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2012

“The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985 – 1993″ by Jordan Mechner and Danica Novgorodoff. If so, you won’t want to miss Carpenter’s funny tale of her adventures running her own FM radio station from her house. It’s a light, easy read you’ll have trouble putting down.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. .” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment.

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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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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2020

I’ve known Will since 1984 and Raj since 1993. My friends @willherman and @rajatbhargava put their hearts and souls into the creation of the first edition of The Startup Playbook, and it paid off. Over 13,000 people bought the book, it’s a 4.8-star star review book on Amazon (with 100 reviews), and it sold out.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It’s long, but as Gaskins rolled through the Forethought history in the mid-1980s and then his time at Microsoft from 1987 – 1993, I was able to once again time travel back to Feld Technologies, which was an independent company from 1987 to 1993 (when we were acquired by Sage Alerting Systems, which became AmeriData Technologies.).

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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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Feld Thoughts

MAY 19, 2021

Several years later, we started Feld Technologies, which we ran together from 1987 to 1993 when we sold it to Sage Alerting Systems, which later renamed itself to AmeriData Technologies. We started a company that year with Sameer Gandhi and Andy Sack called Martingale Software that failed pretty quickly.

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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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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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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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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2020

We worked closely together for seven years before selling the company in 1993 to a public company called Sage Alerting Systems, which renamed itself Sage Technologies and then finally AmeriData Technologies. Dave Jilk was my first business partner (we co-founded Feld Technologies).

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It’s how Cory Van Wolvelaere changed my life: In 1993, after working at Andersen Consulting for 2.5 His term sheet series helped me at a time when I needed help. He asked for nothing. I thought I’d pay it forward. It turned into this blog. Here’s a personal story.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

The Dallas investment management firm was founded by James Dondero and Mr. Okada in 1993 in Los Angeles, over the course of more than two decades, Highland has become a multibillion-dollar global asset manager. Only time will tell how much more James Dondero and his firm can contribute to society.

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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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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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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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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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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

After that things started to move even faster, moving out of London in 1993 and opening pubs in Bracknell and Norwich. Founded in 1993, Quiz Clothing opened 3 stores in Scotland providing fashionable women’s party dresses to women of all ages and sizes, all for a very affordable price. Quiz Clothing.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2022

The term, literally meaning “required carefulness” or “reasonable care” has been in use since the fifteenth century and more recently became a legalised term in 1993 under the United States Securities Act. Due diligence can take on many forms, depending on the situation and its purpose.

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Chance The Rapper, “ Wanna Be Cool “ In 1993, the professional basketball player Charles Barkley famously said: “I am not a role model. I don’t want you to be me. you should just be you. Just because I dunk …

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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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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2018

The entire experience was foundational for me, both as an entrepreneur and an early angel investor (I started investing in 1994 after I sold my first company at the end of 1993.). Over a decade ago, Brad Bernthal and Phil Weiser were putting real energy into Boulder Startup Community.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. In the early 1990s, we were in a recession triggered by reduced defense spending at the end of the cold war, the 1990 oil price shock, and a savings and loan crisis. This recession lasted until 1994.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2018

Starting from a small jet ski rental in Sheffield back in 1993, John has transformed his business into a dynamic multi-event and activity company. I can vouch for the fact that implementing these will surely help you achieve better results and improve your overall productivity. John Tarr is the co-founder and CEO of Off-Limits Events Ltd.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 5, 2017

I got involved as a judge in 1993 and was active through 1997 with occasional visits to the finals in subsequent years when I was around Boston. Few of us anticipated the level of follow up from that discussion and the report that emerged set the stage for a lot of activity at CU Boulder over the ensuing decade.

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