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). At Feld Technologies, we had a very simple bonus program. Each quarter, we paid out 10% of pre-tax profits as a bonus.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

I’ve been reviewing my notepad from 2013 and thought I’d share my insights into what’s changed and the big issues from my perspective in startups, business and technology. Technology is no longer a thing: It’s almost not worth mentioning now it is so ensconced in human life. Here’s hoping for 2014.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. All the way from 1993 to 2000.

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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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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

It was the end of January 1988, about nine months since we had embarked on turning Brad’s solo consulting shop, Feld Technologies, into a real business. Because of our experience at Feld Technologies—and many times since—we knew immediately that this had to be a chapter in the book. It follows. For entrepreneurs?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. None of the market leaders in technology were the first movers. [1] 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. That’s unlikely. 1] Montgomery, M.

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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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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. 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.

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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. Others infographic Internet mobile applications social media technology' By 2012 the number of websites would have exploded to 634 million, with a global Internet population of 2.1

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Sassoon, 1993 ; Rubinstein, 1988 ). Programmed Learning and Educational Technology 18(2), 57-61. Educational Communication and Technology , 35(1), 3-17. 2001 ; Tullis et al., 1995 ; De Lange et al., Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 113-123 ). Gillespie, J.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 2, 2012

My first business partner, Dave Jilk, emailed me our original partnership agreement for Feld Technologies. 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. It’s one page. We incorporated a month later as an S-Corp.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

While we’re excited by the results, we’ve realized that we’ve been solving the problem for the 1% of new ventures that are technology startups. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009.

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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. They enhance the reading experience for screen readers and other supporting technologies. It can contain texts, links, graphics, or tables; basically, any content you wish to show!

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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

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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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

He founded eBay to empower individuals through the use of new technology, and has created livelihoods for millions of individuals throughout the world. I wrote my applications to college, or rather typed them on a typewriter with a bottle of WhiteOut close by.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The technology allowing you to collect this data is getting better and better, now allowing for auto-flagging of user frustration signals and segmenting based on events, traffic sources, goals, etc. Image Source. They’re a super popular type of user experience test for a few reasons. Hierarchical grouping of needs.

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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.

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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. Feld Technologies worked with Allcom whenever we needed a network installed for a client. As a paternal figure, he was a close second to my father. I loved him deeply.

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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? John: Wearable tech wasn’t on my radar at all and it actually was the Apple watch that made me look at other wearable technology. Jonathan: Hold on a second. Peter: That’s pre-Google.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 1993, Word 6.0 Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. They’ve been around for nearly 100 years, but they embraced technology and the Internet relatively early. WORD FOR MAC – Martina Lauchengco. So the team got to work.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

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. In 1993 I was the founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization Boston Chapter and member #1.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 18, 2012

Here are a few examples from my first company, Feld Technologies (1987 – 1993). Hyperion : While Feld Technologies was a software consulting company, the companies that installed the networks that our software ran on (mostly PC-based Novell Networks) were so shitty that we set up our own small network installation group.

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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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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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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Pete Cashmore at Bloomberg Venture , July 7, 2010: By this point, anyone familiar with new media, technology, social media, and the Internet know Mashable, seeing as how it’s currently one of the largest, most profitable blogs around. Prerna Gupta at evolver.fm , Jan.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2012

I first thought of raving fans when I read Ken Blanchard’s book by the same name in 1993 when I was CEO of Feld Technologies (my first company). On Tuesday, we realized that we have made several investments yesterday that have a concept in common – that of raving fans. The message rang true for me then and still does today.

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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 Thanks to Shaun Gray, Gray & Associates Events. #2 The name of our company came from the name of our flagship product.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

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. After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. What is a company anyway?

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Start Up Blog

JULY 7, 2014

All of which are in their 1993 era. entrepreneurship Bitcoin business entrepreneurs internet startups technology top 10 list' This takes my mind directly to the potential of 3D printing, web of things and the solar energy industry. The only question remaining for entrepreneurs reading is this; What are you going to do about it?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It’s the story of Pinpoint Technologies, his first company with David Cohen, one of the other co-founders of Techstars. No Vision All Drive is particularly fun for me since the time frame overlapped with my first company – Feld Technologies. I love origin stories.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal. Home Depot is a good example.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In the very early stages of a technology company, one of the biggest unnecessary cash sinks is office space. It’s pretty difficult to go out of business when you have money in the bank (amazingly enough, it appears GM may somehow manage this feat). Some people feel that an office is absolutely necessary and won’t work without one.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. While we have a home in Homer, where we will be for the next three weeks, we still call Boulder, Colorado our home. But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995. We were living in Boston at the time.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2018

As technology has advanced, we have access to a variety of tools that can help us communicate effectively. 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. Use Various Tools to Enhance your Communication. Well this is important.

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