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E-commerce startups | cdixon blog
http://cdixon.org/2012/08/15/e-commerce-startups
Very few successful e-commerce companies were started in the 2000s. Since then, e-commerce startups have enjoyed a revival. Dozens of companies have gotten traction and venture dollars have followed. Phrases like flash sales, social commerce, and subscription commerce have entered the startup lexicon. As Josh Kopelman points out. August 15, 2012. 160 thoughts on “ E-commerce startups. General thoughts on the eCommerce technology enabler ecosystem (demandware, channeladvisor, baazarvoice et al)? Decentral...
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Resegment If You Aren't In The Top Three - Feld Thoughts
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/01/resegment-if-you-arent-in-the-top-three.html
Press enter to search. Hi, I'm Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. I invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and love to read. Press enter to search. January 23, 2012. Resegment If You Aren’t In The Top Three. Six months ago I wrote a post about how I think about competition. Which included a list of topics that summarizes my philosophy. I covered the first item, Be The First Mover. If you look at the Foundry Group portfolio. Don’t b...
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The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies - Feld Thoughts
http://www.feld.com/archives/2015/01/illusion-product-market-fit-saas-companies.html
Press enter to search. Hi, I'm Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. I invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and love to read. Press enter to search. January 20, 2015. The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies. 8220;We have product/market fit.”. 8220;We are searching for product/market fit.”. 8220;We are raising this financing to find product/market fit.”. 8220;Our customer traction demonstrates product/market fit.”. While oste...
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Startup Culture: Values vs. Vibe - Feld Thoughts
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/06/startup-culture-values-vs-vibe.html
Press enter to search. Hi, I'm Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. I invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and love to read. Press enter to search. June 5, 2012. Startup Culture: Values vs. Vibe. My friend Chris Moody. I hear some form of the following question frequently from founders that are starting to have early success:. The people you hire will come with their own set of values. Every person you hire should have personal value...
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History Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme - Feld Thoughts
http://www.feld.com/archives/2015/04/history-doesnt-repeat-rhyme.html
Press enter to search. Hi, I'm Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. I invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and love to read. Press enter to search. April 17, 2015. History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme. My favorite Mark Twain post, which I share with my close friend Phil Weiser (the Dean of CU Boulder) is “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Here are some rhymes I hear on an almost almost basis. Um Yeah. What?
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Being A Great CEO - Feld Thoughts
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2013/08/being-a-great-ceo.html
Press enter to search. Hi, I'm Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. I invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and love to read. Press enter to search. August 16, 2013. Being A Great CEO. Matt Blumberg’s new book,. Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. Is about to come out. If you are a CEO and haven’t preordered it, I recommend you go get it right now. 3 Recruit, hire, and retain the very best talent and inspire them.
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Victims and Leaders - Feld Thoughts
http://www.feld.com/archives/2014/10/victims-leaders.html
Press enter to search. Hi, I'm Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. I invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and love to read. Press enter to search. October 24, 2014. In a recent board meeting, at a particularly challenging part of the conversation, I did a retrospective of the past five years as a lead up to making a point. I prefaced it by saying “I need you to take a. Approach, not a. Jeremy’s summary is. Are you a leader or a victim?
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My Smart Phone Is No Longer Working For Me - Feld Thoughts
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/12/my-smart-phone-is-no-longer-working-for-me.html
Press enter to search. Hi, I'm Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. I invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and love to read. Press enter to search. December 6, 2012. My Smart Phone Is No Longer Working For Me. I don’t miss my iPhone at all. It sits in my pocket most of the time. Every now and then I hop on a phone call and do a conference call with MobileDay. I used it for a map. I checked my calendar a few times. What’s missing is...
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Hire For Cultural Fit Over Competence - Feld Thoughts
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/12/hire-for-cultural-fit-over-competence.html
Press enter to search. Hi, I'm Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. I invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and love to read. Press enter to search. December 18, 2012. Hire For Cultural Fit Over Competence. This first appeared in the. Wall Street Journal’s Accelerator series last week under the title Cultural Fit Trumps Competence. Also, I’m going to be doing online office hours with the WSJ on Friday 12/21 at 3pm ET. While you always wan...
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Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece | cdixon blog
http://cdixon.org/2012/11/23/some-problems-are-so-hard-they-need-to-be-solved-piece-by-piece
Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece. Andrew Parker had a great post. A few years ago where he sketched out all the startups going after pieces of Craigslist:. Startups that have tried to go head-to-head against the entirety of Craigslist (the horizontal approach ) have struggled. Startups that have tried to go up against pieces of Craigslist (the vertical approach ) have been much more successful (e.g. StubHub, AirBnB). November 23, 2012. November 23, 2012 at 8:00 pm. Totally ...
