Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I completed #19 in Newport, Rhode Island yesterday. Louis Rock and Roll Marathon with my friend Matt Shobe (now at BigDoor; was one of the co-founders of FeedBurner). Marathon #19 in the “run a marathon in each of the 50 states” is done. While my running base is great, I made three mistakes. Way to go gang!

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. AskAnything.VC Advantages. Disadvantages.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111, shared how a passion for food, and a personal need for modest but fashionable clothing fueled decisions to begin second careers as startup founders. As a new founder, Al will be calling the perseverance he used to make it in radio. Al Milukas.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, wrote a famous essay in which he advised entrepreneurs to do things that don’t scale. Consider how the founders of Airbnb solved the problem of hosts posting poor-quality photos of their rental properties on Airbnb.com: They became the photographers.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. BC: Yeah, Reid.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. BC: Yeah, Reid.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. The website is clean and very intuitive—not surprising, I guess, when two of the founders are designers.

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