Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Dave Jilk was my first business partner (we co-founded Feld Technologies). 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.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. 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. Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. 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. Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 19, 2014

Since it was our first time on stage together talking about how we built and sold our first company, Pinpoint Technologies, we put together a few short videos from the talk that highlight our entrepreneurial adventures. We sold Pinpoint Technologies for half as much as we later learned that the acquirer was willing to pay.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2014

In my first real company, Feld Technologies, there were two founders – me and Dave Jilk. But we stayed after it and built a successful company that was consistently profitable and acquired by a public company in 1993 for a few million dollars. I was a CEO once. At the time it was acquired, we had 20 people. Some people love it.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

As of today, I’m changing my title at Techstars to be “Founder and Managing Partner” and I’m dropping the “co-CEO” title. In 1993 we co-founded our first startup, Pinpoint Technologies, alongside a third co-founder, Bob Durkin who focused on sales. David Brown will become “Founder and CEO” instead of “Founder and co-CEO.”

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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. In the first edition, The Information Super Highway was to be the logical successor to the Internet, but definitely not using Internet technology.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

2 – Our Flagship Technology. When filing for incorporation ATLAS Technologies was already taken, so Mobile was added since that’s our focus. Thanks to Steve Wood, ATLAS Mobile Technologies. #3 They came back with several rounds of ideas and my partner and I went back and forth on ones we liked and did not like.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. Our weekend in Anchorage is with a bunch of friends, including celebrating our close friends Jon and Doug’s recent marriage and spending time with Amy’s sister, her partner, and niece. But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 1993, Word 6.0 From Microsoft she went on to Netscape, where she was responsible for marketing of the Netscape Browser, and then LoudCloud, and now I’m happy to say she’s been my partner at SVPG for over a decade, and she also teaches marketing at UC Berkeley. WORD FOR MAC – Martina Lauchengco.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Partnering with the United Nations’ School Feeding initiative, the company blends business and activism by selling merchandise and donating the profits to Latin American, Asian, and African children in need. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec. Prerna Gupta at evolver.fm , Jan.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Myth #3: I need a partner. It’s a common belief that having a partner allows a company to become more successful because the duo can feed off each others’ ideas and make them better. Partners can not only feed off each other, but they will help bolster one another when the going gets tough. Really big. Filo and Yang.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Ive been helping create software and Internet companies for over 25 years, starting with my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1985 when I was in college. By 1987 I had a partner, a mentor (my father) and a company that was capitalized with $10. Ive been blogging–along with my partners–for a number of years.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

It 1993, I sold my first company, Feld Technologies, to a company called Sage Alerting Systems (which, after several name changes, became AmeriData Technologies.) It was a six month journey for me and my partner Dave Jilk which was at some points exciting, often stressful, and occasionally extremely confusing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I’m a partner in his latest venture, the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) , the newest addition to his long history of reinvention work that spans industries ranging from football to banking. This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. What was it, and how did it come about?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Fundtech develops transaction banking solutions that automate activities such as payments, cash management, settlement, liquidity management, and the financial supply chain, and was founded in 1993. Dotomi founder Yair Goldfinger also co-founded ICQ, the technology known today as instant messaging.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2018

My business partner and I had been struggling to come up with a name for the best part of three days and ended up in an animated discussion in a bar. alligatortek (formerly known as Alligator Computer Systems) was born in the days of the Yellow Pages, where most technology companies started with Computer or IT. Photo Credit: Sid Bala.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. How has technology affected your work? Even looking at the internet, and phone technology. Well, Heidi (who designs accessories), my partner and I both work from home so its normally me that gets up first and makes the tea. Ooh hugely!

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. How has technology affected your work? Even looking at the internet, and phone technology. Well, Heidi (who designs accessories), my partner and I both work from home so its normally me that gets up first and makes the tea. Ooh hugely!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

We just held our eleventh session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 17, 2024

Our technology solutions streamline self-funded benefits. My father took the business into printable apparel, & with my brother, we recognized the potential of technology & e-commerce. My partners & I envisioned WhatManandVan as a solution to this problem, aiming to streamline the moving process for countless individuals.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Undersecretary for International Affairs and then Deputy Treasury Secretary for President Clinton between 1993 and 1999. For those of you too young to remember, Reagan was a noted Republican.). Became US Treasury Secretary in 1999.

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