Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. Michigan Cottage Cheese: Yoplait Yogurt. He was a former Wall Street analyst with no operating or investment experience, who became a VC by teaming up with operator LJ Sevin.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2022

I was actually operating without a name for the first 3 months until one day a client told me that I gave him the kick in the ass he needed. It took a lot of creative meetings between my co-founder and I before we came up with meaningful names. It’s fun, catchy, and memorable. The name caught on immediately.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

She is the founder and CEO of JAM a multi-million dollar global business that has connected millions of people through play since its inception as one of the largest adult recreational sports leagues in the world. Listen to creative elements wherever you get your podcasts. (00:52): You can find it @marketingassessment.co, not.com, co.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. 12 – It was Just Time.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2011

After OfficeMax’s first year, we’d actually grown nicely and were operating stores in Ohio, New York, and Michigan. Michael Feuer cofounded OfficeMax in 1988 starting with one store and $20,000 of his own money, a partner, and a small group of investors. Better yet, we’d done so with no real casualties and just a few wounds.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Nina Tandon , CEO and co-founder of EpiBone , the world’s first company growing bones for skeletal reconstruction.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews series , we sat down with entrepreneurs Sam Simon and Nasutsa Mabwa, the co-founders and owners of ServiceMaster By Simons. This philosophy is deeply ingrained in their company culture and helps set this husband and wife co-founder team apart as leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. She is the primary inventor of a modular centrifuge that operates with or without electricity.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Operations. MOST READ on FOLIO: F+W Acquires Aspire Media. Merging Brands with Technology. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Reports: Major Layoffs at Spin. FOLIO: Alerts & Newsletters. FOLIO: Alert News Updates. Circulation/Audience Development. Connecticut.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

DATA QUALITY IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION SXSW Conference | Track: Tech Industry & Enterprise Speakers: Gustavo Sanchez, Co-Founder of Pandata Tech The Pitch: 80% of digital projects are being hampered by data quality?—?deployed as well as strategies for founders in raising capital and marketing to the public.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

With Rob Majteles as a co-instructor, I started a tradition of teaching all my classes with venture capitalists as co-instructors. Now we understood that the strategy for startups was to first search for a business model and then after you found it, put together an operating plan. And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C.

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