Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In the years since, with massive customer launches like Snapchat and the Weather Channel, the horizontal scale of Mapbox’s platform is now much more obvious. Back in 1997, Softbank Technology Ventures (which became Mobius Venture Capital) was the first VC fund I helped raise.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

This means we do not fund a company because of what technology platform it chooses to develop on but rather what problem the company and product is solving and how big that opportunity is. It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. Nothing has changed since then.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 10, 2004

.” So if Microsoft, known for its high gross margins from software, cannot even generate a profit how are other technology companies selling Plasma TVs and other consumer electronics going to make money? The post CES-Show me the money! first appeared on BeyondVC.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

What happens when evolving customer preferences for certain technologies make lead capture forms obsolete? Lead capture forms made sense in an era when phone and email were the dominant communication channels. True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. A Shift in How We Communicate.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

This means we do not fund a company because of what technology platform it chooses to develop on but rather what problem the company and product is solving and how big that opportunity is. It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. Nothing has changed since then.

.Net 60

.Net Java Limited Partner Venture Capital 60

BeyondVC

JANUARY 10, 2004

.” So if Microsoft, known for its high gross margins from software, cannot even generate a profit how are other technology companies selling Plasma TVs and other consumer electronics going to make money? The post CES-Show me the money! appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

” Two of the entrepreneurial programs, which I managed is called the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997. Payments / marketplaces / etc).

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997. Payments / marketplaces / etc).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2015

I love how it cuts through the fluff of “go digital or die” marketing while proposing a measured way to weave brand marketing into both mass and new media channels. In its first two chapters, the book argues that while digital technology have rocked our worlds, the fundamentals of strong brands have not changed.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

From the Work Less Institute of Technology, “ Psychophysics in Cyberia ” (written in response to the ea_spouse posting): It was over a century ago that Dr. Ernst Abbe conducted his observations on working time and output at the Zeiss Optical Works in Jena, Germany. So we are forced to draw analogies from other industries.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. Unlike the circuit-switched cell phone networks, pager networks were built around digital packet-switched technology. In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

Adriana Heguy , Director of NYUMC Genome Technology Center and Professor of Pathology, answered: “There is also another positive aspect of simplicity: it is practical. In a survey conducted by Ketchum , researchers found that three fourths of consumers around the world feel that the current technology is failing to make their lives simpler.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

On many boards, both the CEO and CFO have direct channels with the board so that they can provide the yin and yang (in a well-coordinated way). For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. cents or 6.25

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

they’ll continue to look for independent technology partners. Attempts at “moving up the stack&# – In 1997 I led a project to help senior management at British Telecom define its Internet strategy. The MSO’s are today’s distribution platforms and they still have a lot of muscle in the ensuing years.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful. The Myspace traffic numbers slipped slightly before they cleaned it up, but after the June 2008 redesign it was freefall. Ive read interviews with people at Zappos before talking about how they purposely keep the site looking like crap. (To Its the ultimate challenge.)

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