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I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Accept Assumptions Attention Believe Believer Both Build Companies Fear Great Greed History History Repeats Itself Itself Operating Paying Repeats Rhymes Right Should Strong Time You

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Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Companies Composition Creates Different Different Places Experience Fast Growing Issues Largest Leadership Lot Moment More Most Often Particular People Places Requires Role Scale Specific Specifically Stress Team Time Who

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At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Always Been Build Companies Group Look Magic Products Think Those

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I know a lot of companies that have a very well defined post-acquisition process. However, many of them don't take into consideration the dynamics and personalities of the acquiree. Instead, they assume that everyone will happily be assimilated.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Assume Companies Consideration Defined Dynamics Everyone Happily However Instead Know Lot Many Personalities Process Take Them Very Well Will

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Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Any Business Companies Cost Difference Fight Incumbent Innovator Literally Many More Organizations Past People Point Point Of View Profound Protect Regularly See Than Think Trying View I Think

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Twitter has always been that refreshing place where I can quickly find out what is going on in my tech world. I follow mostly entrepreneurs and VCs - some who I know and some who I don't know. I have a few companies in my feed. But no newspapers, no magazines, and no mainstream media.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Always Been Companies Entrepreneurs Feed Few Find Follow Going Know Magazines Mainstream Mainstream Media Media Mostly Newspapers Out Place Quickly Refreshing Some Tech Twitter Where Who World I Can

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I have shifted my mindset in terms of how companies should... focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Amazing Building Companies Focus How Marketing Mindset Products Shifted Should Terms Those Trivial You

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So many companies talk about increasing the number of prospects at the top of the funnel, but they spend remarkably little time making sure actions are taken - on a daily basis - to make sure these prospects convert into paid users.

~Brad Feld

Topics: About Actions Basis Companies Convert Daily Daily Basis Increasing Little Little Time Make Making Many Number Paid Prospects Remarkably Spend Sure Taken Talk Time Top Users

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Governments spend all their time trying to get big companies to relocate their headquarters, and they end up subsidizing the move with tax breaks. And companies that relocate their headquarters are often not meaningful job creators.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Big Big Companies Breaks Companies Creators End Get Governments Headquarters Job Meaningful Move Often Spend Tax Tax Breaks Time Trying Up

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While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker.

~Brad Feld

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