Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2010

We invested in BigDoor earlier this year as part of our Distribution theme. Three months ago at a board dinner in Seattle we discussed the idea of creating a much lighter weight implementation – basically something that a publisher like me could implement on my site without having to write any code.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

KS: For the first several years of Textio’s life, our team was entirely co-located in Seattle. By the time the pandemic started, we had brought on a couple of sales people in New York and San Francisco, but we were still 95% colocated in Seattle. Like everyone else, we went distributed overnight in March 2020.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 4, 2012

In mid-November, Microsoft announced its launch of the Kinect Accelerator , a Seattle-based accelerator program powered by TechStars. Microsoft may also collaborate with certain companies to publish their products through Microsoft distribution channels. What innovative idea that leverages the Kinect do you have?

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Location: Seattle. Featured Jobs.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 Seattle-based Syndio has a bold ambition: to eradicate unlawful pay disparities in the workplace. Maria Colacurcio giving her winning pitch for Syndio in Seattle last fall. The pay gap speaks to the distribution of women and minorities in a company. The equitably compensated Syndio team.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

… “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Peter Nesbitt, VP of Finance at Teampay , said, “Forecasting is exceptionally challenging in practice, especially as end users drive an era of distributed spending.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2020

My investments have always been geographically distributed across the US and I spent the majority of my time between Monday and Friday on the road. In the past few years, there have been several high profile examples of scaled companies that have a completely distributed workforce. For many years, this was a function of travel.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country. It’s also steps away from the Rlab , the mixed-reality accelerator we recently graduated from and maintain close ties with.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All Things Distributed Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Seattle, WA, 98104 Syndication Subscribe to this weblogs atom feed or rss feed Search Powered by Movable Type 4.01.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? The one thing that I think is missing is distributing equity to every single employee in the company regardless of title. Title Range (%).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Coming off a massive hacking incident of Sony Pictures where unauthorized security breaches led to highly sensitive information and unreleased films being distributed online, it seems rightfully so that many other corporations are now on their guard to prevent something similar happening to them.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 21, 2010

We recently invested in a Seattle company called BigDoor Media. BigDoor straddles our Glue and Distribution themes. I’ve already been spending plenty of time in Seattle due to Gist , Impinj , TechStars Seattle , and some other good friends that I have there.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The brewery has experienced a high level of success in the regional market, with a wide distribution in Wyoming and a satellite brewpub in Bellingham, Washington. With the move to the 30-barrel facility, they were able to distribute their product on a larger scale and bottle it for remote distribution. Early Developments.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

million in funding (0) Accelerator application trifecta: TechStars Seattle, Portland Seed Fund, and PIE currently accepting submissions (0) You got your Vizify in my Twitter. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. It helps everyone. Related posts Cloudability’s day in the sun: Portland company lands $8.7 Email Address.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” Steve Jobs.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 17, 2010

I’ve been keeping an eye on the daily deal phenomenon and have had an opportunity to explore it in more detail mentoring Deal Co-op , a TechStars Seattle team. Deal Co-op thinks that daily deal marketing is best served at local levels, with more targeted distribution. Rather than simply observe new things, I like to use them.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce, connecting local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. Here are some of the highlights: . New Investments .

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Generally, a new company can’t undercut the established players in terms of pricing or get wider distribution, but a new idea gives you an advantage that money can’t buy. In Seattle, Ridwell is a curbside recycling program originally started by Ryan Metzger and his eight-year-old son Owen. Niche recycling. It now has over 4,500 users.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 19, 2021

Evocalize is backed by Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and Second Century Ventures , the venture capital arm of the National Association of Realtors. Prior to founding Evocalize, Matthew most recently served as a product management executive at Austin-based Bazaarvoice.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. When I used to travel to Los Angeles and Seattle on business I would use a rental car. New Use Cases. Today I only Uber.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2020

Sure, Amazon owns Whole Foods, which has about 350 physical locations, but they are large food distribution facilities (e.g. Oh, and they are both headquartered in Seattle. Starbucks has one thing Amazon doesn’t have – over 30,000 physical locations. grocery stores) rather than community meeting spaces (e.g. coffee shops).

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Alliance of Angels (Seattle). The distribution of groups in the survey includes a relatively representative sampling of angel groups across the US and Canada. The average and median data for the entire set of data are shown at the bottom. 2012 Valuation Survey. pre-money valuation in US$ millions). Organization. Life Science.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

My post The Future Of Work Is Distributed received some good comments. ” It’s an important nuance, as there is a big difference between a fully distributed workforce (which the blockchain kids refer to as a “decentralized workforce”) and a multi-location workforce. .”

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I did what’s called a hybrid publisher where I actually owned all the creative and then the production parts or the backend and the distribution came from a publishing service that offers that. It seems crazy in Seattle, but it doesn’t seem crazy in China at all. Jay Acunzo: Yeah. This is a radical thing.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

Over the past year, and especially over the last few days, the Bay Area tech Twitter echo chamber has been tweeting about the advent of remote, or distributed, or satellite teams for their companies across the country and the world. Today, I am excited to share some data on the Haystack portfolio as it relates to geography.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Durant of course plays a huge role, but there are many more nuanced elements certain to drive any Seattle basketball fan to the edge of tears. Technically, this article was published in 2011, but that should not stop it from being further distributed. Thanks to Sam Anderson for making me even more of an OKC fan than I already was.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Techstars has become a power player in places like Boston, Boulder and Seattle: The program, known as a startup accelerator, takes entrepreneurs and offers them office space, funding and advice, taking a stake in the companies in exchange. Rae gives a short but inspiring speech and sends the companies on to their uncertain futures.

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aweissman.com

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

We look at the geographical distribution of our investments. And, Liz from Seattle started a new career at age 55 after learning how to code for free on Codecademy. We try to correlate all these data points to our investment thesis. It''s constant self-analysis, and it is part of how a VC fund should operate.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

And they have a taproom now in Seattle. And then she has distribution throughout the region. Jane McCarthy (12:19.694) I interviewed for the book, The Goddess Guide to Branding, a CEO named Caitlin Bram. And she has started a hard cider company called Yonder, which is based in the Pacific Northwest. But her brand is called Yonder.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. This is one of the most powerful forces in humannature, and its missing when theres just one founder. Bad Location Startups prosper in some places and not others. Afterthat theres not much. In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Facebook is not a client of mine, but I just happen to have a friend who works in IT there and told me that they had already been sheltering in place because they have a lot of workers in Seattle, but my friend Emmett is the CEO of Twitch. He's originally from Seattle, but this is his home, and so we wanted to be able.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. Height has a pretty tight, normal distribution. I’m sure some of you are thinking “that’s all great – but I live in the middle of nowhere and none of those resources are available to me.&#

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