David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2018

In case you don’t know about Jason, prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Jason was a co-founder of SRS Acquiom and a Managing Director and General Counsel for Mobius Venture Capital. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Law School. The Motor City. Prior to this, Jason was an attorney with Cooley.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2013

A few weeks ago I did an event with Built In Denver where I interviewed Tim Miller and Ryan Martens, the founders of Rally Software , on their journey from a startup to a public company (NYSE: RALY ). The past two days the Colorado Innovation Network held it’s 2nd annual COIN Summit.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures. Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey. It has been a rocket ship from there. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Intro to the Austin EdTech Startup Scene Come meet Sean Duffy , founder of EdTech Austin and let him tell about everything going on in EdTech in Austin! Join us at this interview and hear how WWE co-founder Linda McMahon fought back from bankruptcy to build her company into a publicly traded entertainment and media powerhouse.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2011

So when Jim Franklin, the CEO of SendGrid (one of our portfolio companies and a TechStars Boulder mentor) asked if I would write a post about the Founder Institute program in Boulder, I told him that I’d give him control of my blog to write a guest post on it. Last summer Founder Institute held its inaugural class in Denver.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

There’s probably no one more qualified to write this book then Brad Field (startup founder, co founder of two VC firms – Mobius and Foundry, and founder of TechStars.). Leaders and Feeders. Activities and Events. They are not run by the government or any single organization.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Brad Feld is a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder. Got ‘Founder Fit’? A Smart Bear. Paul Graham.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2022

Registration is open for the 2022 Q4 Leadership Bootcamp , which is happening in Boulder, Colorado, on Nov 10-13, 2022. Regular readers of this blog know about my long-time (back to 1996) friendship with Reboot co-founder and CEO Jerry Colonna. miles away from me (there is one 40-acre parcel of land between us.) .”

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 16, 2015

Matt Rissell, co-founder and CEO of TSheets, joins Episode 19 of the Profit First Podcast. Matt Rissell is the co-founder and CEO of TSheets, an Eagle, Idaho-based technology firm that provides online, GPS-powered time tracking for companies with hourly employees. Show Summary. Show Quotes.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

by Jason Mendelson and Brad Feld, co-authors of “ Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist “ So, you’ve got a brilliant idea and you’re ready to launch a company. Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson are cofounders of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado–based venture capital fund.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2022

In 2009, he co-founded a new firm, Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on working with CEOs to unleash the potential of their leadership teams. It was that cold, but it used to used to be in Colorado. Next time you're visiting your son in, in Colorado. After serving with the U.S. I appreciate it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. Well, I moved four years ago or bought a house in Colorado about four years ago and slowly moved. Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This is John Jantsch.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 1, 2010

Mobile Monday Colorado is hosting a member of the TechStars mentor family, Dion Almaer, for their July 19th event. Besides his involvement with TechStars as a mentor, he is a celebrity in the AJAX community as the co-founder of Ajaxian.com , and previously held senior positions within Mozilla and Google.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2018

San Diego has been great, but I miss my dogs, my friends, and the Colorado vibe. When people ask me about the Colorado vibe, I often talk about GiveFirst. Next up is a fun article by my co-author of Startup Communities Way (my new Startup Communities book – coming up mid-year 2019) Ian Hathaway. Happy Friday Colorado.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Outsmart Competitors With Agency-First Web Design written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Itai Sadan In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Itai Sadan, founder of Duda , a website builder designed for marketing agencies and small businesses.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

While Apple set up shop in a garage and not a college dorm, Wozniak built his first computer whilst at the University of Boulder, Colorado. Mark Zuckerberg was a well-connected individual and actually received funding from PayPal’s co-founder very early in Facebook’s existence. Michael Dell was loaned money by his family.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 7, 2014

The University of Colorado Boulder has been at the forefront of breeding and teaching entrepreneurship for many years now, but it has been missing a communal area where student entrepreneurs can work, gather, and live. Location: the heart of student life on the “Hill” in Boulder, Colorado. Here are the details of the space.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Or TOMS shoe company founder Blake Mycoskie, who, on a trip to Argentina in 2006 met a woman in a café who was volunteering for a shoe drive. He is the founder and author of PurposeSpeaks.com, and a researcher and adjunct faculty at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. That person, after all, is your purpose.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. He is the co-author of In Search of Excellence, the book that changed the way the world does business and is often tagged as the best business book ever, 20 books. She's the co-author. Tom Peters (01:19): Over.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In 2007 when I co-founded Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado with a bunch of folks our mission was to create wealth that we could give back to the community that has been the foundation for so many of our entrepreneurial endeavors. Co-Founders. It follows. Startups cannot succeed in a vacuum. Thank you Boulder.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story:

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. I was “rider zero” when Uber launched in Colorado and we made sure people knew about Uber at all of our demo days around the country as they grew.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Nancy is the co-founder and COO of ViaWest , a leading co-location and managed services provider well known to many companies in Colorado. She’s also been a big supporter of many technology related organizations in Colorado, including NCWIT and the Colorado Technology Association.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2023

Dave is also the co-founder of Sanku , a company that developed the only successful technology to fortify grains with lifesaving micronutrients in rural African mills. He's a co-founder of Sanku, a company that developed the only successful technology to fortify grains with lifesaving micronutrients in rural African mills.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Some friends in the impact investing world have recently started talking about generating giant returns by investing in Zebras (such as a nonprofit building in rural Colorado) and Ponies (an immigrant restaurant in Seattle currently using payday lending at 35% for their working capital). This conference is not just about Coloradans.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The Austin-based startup plans to use the funds to expand nationwide starting with the Denver, Colorado market, said Scott Harmon, Swivel’s co-founder, and CEO. Swivel, an Austin-based office leasing platform, announced Tuesday that it has raised $8 million. Breyer was one […].

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2013

Tomorrow night (Tuesday, 1/29) I’ll be doing another Entrepreneurs Unplugged – this time I’ll be interviewing Jeremy Bloom , the co-founder of Integrate. He’s also the founder of a dynamite non-profit called Wish of a Lifetime. Jeremy has been a total joy to work with and has an amazing story.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2010

On March 8, 2010 Amazon fired me as an Amazon Affiliate because of Colorado HB 10-1193. Niel Robertson, the CEO of Trada , introduced me to Viglink’s founder Oliver Roup and I agreed to be an alpha tester. If you are a fired Amazon Affiliate in Colorado, take a look at Viglink. I’ve been an early Viglink user for a while.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

In 2007, we were a founding member in the predecessor organization to Pledge 1%, called Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (or EFCO). Pledge 1% Colorado has now distributed over $8 million back to various organizations in our community. And, the companies that have pledged 1% globally is remarkable.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Wednesday, September 16th from 3:45 – 5:15pm MT – Energize Colorado – Helping Prepare Small Businesses for the New Economy – Panelists: Brad Feld, Danielle Shoots, Erik Mitisek, & Marc Nager – Moderator: Wendy Lea.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 31, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Every great business starts on the back of a napkin, said Evan Loomis, co-founder of TreeHouse, a sustainable home improvement store. He sketched out his plans for TreeHouse during a ski trip with some friends in Boulder, Colorado.

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