Feld Thoughts

APRIL 14, 2010

How could you not fall in love with a company named AgileZen ? Today, Rally Software – a company I’ve been an investor in since 2003 – announced that they have acquired AgileZen. If you are an Agile software development shop, or follow ALM, Rally just added Kanban to the mix.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

It was 2003 and I was training for a marathon so I was in great shape (yes, I know this was YEARS ago but I did complete it in 3:57). One of the people who came to see me was named Nick. I used to work in the UK. I was looking for a person to head up my UK sales team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. Why you shouldn’t stack too many brand names into a round. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

We’ve recently discussed several useful topics for small businesses and startups, including naming your company , how to make you taglines stand out from the crowd., If your 2010 website has content dated from 2003, your visitors may quickly leave your site. Nowadays people are putting the name into Google to find sites.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

We’ve recently discussed several useful topics for small businesses and startups, including naming your company , how to make you taglines stand out from the crowd., If your 2010 website has content dated from 2003, your visitors may quickly leave your site. Nowadays people are putting the name into Google to find sites.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.” He was previously Senior Vice President, responsible for product lines and manufacturing operations, at SigmaTel through its 2003 IPO and then acquisition by Freescale. Naval Nuclear Power Program.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0 He has lectured and consulted extensively for industry, academia, military, and intelligence communities. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. They set about registering an internet domain name and preparing for the release of a Beta version of their app later that year.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2020

This has to do with its brand name and the innovations that they came up with in the past. Photo Credit: Maxine Ramirez. As an entrepreneur in the digital marketing world, Facebook is a big part of my digital strategy for both my own business and my clients. 12- Advanced Micro Devices(AMD). Photo Credit: Deepu Prakash.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Don’t be fooled by the name. Fred Wilson is a widely known blogger and Venture Capitalist who’s been publishing posts daily since 2003. If you’re looking for an endless stream of tools and advice to improve your business across the board, be sure to check out Duct Tape Marketing. AVC’s MBA Mondays | Fred Wilson.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The key to understanding Lean Startup is to recognize two things: Lean Startup techniques confer maximum benefit in the upper-right quadrant, namely high market uncertainty coupled with fast cycle time. It is written by Ronald Mannak, who is currently the CEO of a startup named Yobble. What follows are solely his opinions.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies. 4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. 10- Elon Musk.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. And then the news came. A woman named Trish Hannon called me with the good news that we had won the project. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. But first I’d like to start with a story.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. My husband Bob became a home inspector in 2003, after a long career in IT. ” inserted above the company name. 2 – A Unique Name.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

When I think of innovation, the name Marc pops into my mind. In 2014, Vitalik was named one of The 10 Most Influential People in Blockchain by CoinDesk and one of The 100 Most Influential People in Fintech by Apcexplorer. He's the type of entrepreneur who has the vision and willingness to change the world. Thanks to David Reid, VEM !

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2017

When I started in the financial services industry in 2003, getting to meetings when I was on the road was pretty straightforward—I took a cab. they don’t recognize the billing name of your company), make it easy for clients to contact you with questions before they dispute a charge.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Ressi, Wilson Sonsini and a top-tier accounting firm (which preferred not to be named) have been working on developing this set of documents for some time now, says Ressi. → Learn More.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Resumes are noisy: The name at the top may suggest gender and ethnicity. invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a classic example.) For her company, Liberos , she abandoned a preferred, casual tone (such as using her first name) to keep signals of expertise at the forefront. How false expertise leads us to hire the wrong people.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Shelley Hunter went from a systems analyst to the spokesperson for GiftCards.com, a website she started under a different name and was able to sell. I ventured into entrepreneurship in 2003, when I fell victim to my third layoff within a six year time span,” she says. “I She remains its spokesperson. Connect on Twitter: @HeraHub ?@FelenaHanson.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 24, 2020

I loved seeing his promotion of companies that vaporized by 2003. Many of Gilder’s predictions and prognostications were correct, even if the companies he named as the leaders couldn’t pull them off. He got some of it really right and some of it really wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. Some of the most prominent names in the industry charge hundreds of dollars for a seat in their auditorium. The bigger the name, the easier it is to quantify quality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2013

Information architecture should also include little things like deciding that products on a search page should be ordered by price rather than by name. name of the page, content) on each one of them. You ask people to put the terms into logical groupings, and find a category name for each grouping. Image credit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

The centerpiece of the pledge is the Walker Rule, which is inspired by the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which was created by the late Dan Rooney in 2003 and is now supported by his son, Art Rooney II, President of the Pittsburgh Steelers. I’ve named the Walker Rule after Madam C.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. The name doesn’t matter. Seems like a shitty deal, doesn’t it? And this isn’t something new. This happens to big sites too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

Information architecture should also include little things, like deciding that products on a search page should be ordered by price not name. name of the page, content) on each. You ask the first test subject to put the terms into logical groupings and create a category name for each grouping. Closed-card sorting.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

Be cautious when choosing the name of a professional Facebook page. Once a page has more than 30 fans, the name cannot be changed. Use an adaptable name, like ‘stylist,’ ‘hair pro,’ ‘financial services professional,’ etc. Avoid any names that are transitory in nature.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

Blank first started piecing together the concept in 2000 and created The Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2003. One of his students, Eric Ries, later wrote a book about the concept and named it The Lean Startup. Big businesses, Blank said, became so “focused on execution, they forgot how to innovate.”. The Evolution Of The Lean Startup.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete. Building brand recognition and social proof, exposing his name and business experience to audiences of potential prospects.

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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. 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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