Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

They suggested we call this “Finance Fridays&# to bookend Fred’s MBA Monday’s – I checked with Fred to see if he was ok with this and his response was “Hell yes. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The teams are beginning to understand that beneficiaries mean “Not the name of an organization but all the stakeholders in an organization (users, program managers, saboteurs, legal, finance, etc.)” What we’re trying to prevent is to have teams give the DOD/IC yet another great technology demo. They have plenty of those.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The teams are beginning to understand that beneficiaries mean “Not the name of an organization but all the stakeholders in an organization (users, program managers, saboteurs, legal, finance, etc.)” What we’re trying to prevent is to have teams give the DOD/IC yet another great technology demo. They have plenty of those.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When we led Eric’s first financing — a $10 million round and the first capital into the bootstrapped team — we believed mobile location and mapping would be big. There was no AR or autonomous back when he was in Afghanistan, but there was a need for location data and a better mapping platform.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I spent all [inaudible] as a 26 year career in finance on a trading room floor. So we were trading swaps and bonds on international finance markets. And we think it’s normal to be on our phones and to be using technology as much as we do driving through lots of traffic and lots of meetings and lots of busy sort of lifestyle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

have these stories of kids who are in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan, and young girls were forbidden from going to school who are using Khan Academy in that way. If you're in the technology business, that's like sacred ground. But my original background was in technology. Right now, we have the technology to do it.

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