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Pandere Shoes, Anchorage Startups, and Techstars

Feld Thoughts

I met the co-founder Laura Oden when I was in Anchorage last month to speak at the Accelerate Alaska event. She described how she met her founders at Techstars Startup Weekend in 2016. When you think of Alaska, you probably do not think of it as a popular location for producing shoes.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. I took my Macbook Pro (an older model from about 18 months ago) up to Alaska, left my Lenovo x300 in Boulder, and went native Mac.

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Introducing FG Press

Feld Thoughts

For example, in 2006, we co-founded Techstars. At the time David Cohen, the co-founder and CEO, was unhappy with how angel investing worked. I remember sitting at my kitchen table in Homer, Alaska in July 2010 at 2am almost crying with frustration. Our 2014 project is FG Press. Like Techstars, this is a new entity.

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Fun and Games with BigDoor

Feld Thoughts

The founder/CEO Keith Smith wrote a wonderful love story about the deal which was picked up by the WSJ VC Dispatch in a post titled A Summer Romance Between Founder And Venture Capitalist ? Yes, I’ve fallen in love (in a very non-sexual way) with Keith, his co-founder Jeff Malek, and BigDoor.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative. I'm the founder and CEO of Celevity. Here's my conversation with Curative. Celine Halioua : Hi, I'm Celine Halioua.

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