Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 18, 2019

He’s also a co-founder of Techstars with me, David Cohen, and David Brown. If you have deep technical, designer, or application development skills and are interested in a civic tour of duty helping improve the software that Coloradian’s use to interact with our state government, go apply to help out.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. raked in five-figure daily signups after announcing its upcoming launch, according to the site’s founders. In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It got 10% conversion,” Carrella says.

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Agile VC

MAY 9, 2014

One of the first things that caught my eye when I started reading the Alibaba Group S-1 was a section on page 7 of the filing regarding something called the “Alibaba Partnership” It quickly struck me that the Alibaba Group’s corporate governance in some ways mirrors China’s Politburo.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

They’re usually put in place to help govern the overall approach to customer-centricity and experimentation, setting working practices across teams (e.g., agile methodologies, aligning tools stacks). Sometimes, this function has an expiration date—once other teams are upskilled , the CoE disbands. Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

That means building a solid eco-system of partners, cultivating a collaborative mindset, and being able to co-sense and co-shape each challenge so you can actualize its opportunity. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and cofounder of the Presencing Institute. Deepen the conversation among your core team.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This post is a continuation of a series.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. If I were in Mike’s shoes, I would start by talking to people in the Philadelphia Startup community. I would imagine that there is something similar in Philadelphia.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Government restrictions and fears of infection pushed companies that had previously held out to accept remote working, and many discovered that it’s more manageable than they had expected. Support agile working practices. The fast-paced business world favors small, nimble teams that support agile decision-making.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For example, Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always used to say he sold hope, not makeup. Referrals – Ask anyone you know who may have useful points of contact for you – your co-workers, friendly customers, your social media network – they may be able to connect you with perfect interview candidates.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But IMO it’ll take a “big bang” multi-party effort rather than an incremental innovation, so it’ll favor large organizations (big companies and/or governments) rather than startups. Government fiat. I’d be happy to co-author with you. Or Google may be one of the new winners in scenario #1 (e.g.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Dan Ushman is the Co-Founder and CMO of Singlehop. Agility: The ability to adapt to new workloads, regardless of platform. Whether by themselves or in a hybrid configuration, you can create rules that govern your cloud instances so that they can automatically assess changing workloads and scale to match.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The finished book will come out on September 13, featuring an amazing cover designed by my IMVU co-founder Marcus Gosling and refined and tested by so many of you. And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies. them back to my publisher.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This post is a continuation of a series.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A huge cleantech boom occurred and battery companies like A123 went public along with biofuels companies like Amyris, Gevo, and others, though in retrospect this was more of a bubble driven by unsustainable government subsidies (A123 is bankrupt and the biofuels companies trade at a fraction of their IPO valuation).

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. Originally named the Scojo Foundation in 2001 and re-named VisionSpring in 2008, Scojo Foundation was named for co-founders Jordan and Scott (ScoJo). billion people worldwide who need them. Small is beautiful.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. Of course one must be aware of the cyclical zeitgeist as it impacts the behavior of competitors, co-investors, and others.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. Originally named the Scojo Foundation in 2001 and re-named VisionSpring in 2008, Scojo Foundation was named for co-founders Jordan and Scott (ScoJo). billion people worldwide who need them. Small is beautiful.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Webinar Invitation : Opportunities in Smart Wearables You’re invited to attend a webinar, hosted by Growthink co-Founder and Managing Partner Jay Turo, on Friday, September 16th at Noon ET / 9 am PT where a select group of wearable entrepreneurs and investors will share how they and their companies are winning in this incredibly dynamic space.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

“I didn’t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldn’t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,” said Schwartzfarb. Denver, CO?—? RSVP here Sept. New York City, NY Sept.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. Here’s what it looks like.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder (by @BeckyMcCray ) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder (by @BeckyMcCray ) – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Now, I dont think even most dot-com era founders were bad people, I just think traditional startup methods make it too easy to become confused about whether were creating real progress or not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

"Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. Will you join us? I think the benefits are a no-brainer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Since most of our lives are governed by maintenance, innovation becomes a form of deviating from the norm and creating constructive conflict. The closing panel on Day 1 felt like the start of a witty punchline, “A startup founder, a government official, and a venture capitalist walk into a room…”?—?what

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A version of this article – co-authored with Raj Shah and Joe Felter – previously appeared in The National Interest. government labs, but today most of the advances come from commercial vendors—many of them Chinese. You’re not competing against an individual Chinese company; you’re competing against the Chinese government.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people. Federal government should do nothing.

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