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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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Founder Feedback. Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA. Founder Feedback gives you insights from the startup trenches. Applications to the Seattle Founder Institute are also due this Sunday, February 26th: click here to apply. Choose a city closest to you. Alexandria.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. We were sued shortly after starting because there was an SOS Staffing in Denver that was publicly held. I chose DevBev Co. Thanks to Devin Beverage, DevBev Co. ! #6- We also needed a domain name so making up a name was helpful there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Denver Startup Week , the largest startup week in the world, happens next week. I’m involved in a bunch of stuff this year, which I’ll list below, but I want to highlight a few specific events, including the Keynote Kickoff with Robert Smith of Vista Equity Partners who grew up in Denver.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai This is John Jansen.

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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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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2023

#9- Elevating home dining Photo Credit: Leonardo De Aguiar I wanted to provide my wife, with an intimate dinner in the comfort of our new home since she had recently moved to Denver after doing long-distance. However, I knew that I needed a chef to create the culinary experience to go along with this special evening. That's how Ozmo was born.

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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.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space. It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER.

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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 attendance at the event was roughly 50% Boulder entrepreneurs and 50% Denver entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Sarah Tuneberg, co-founder and CEO, answered some questions about the company. Geospiza is based in Denver. The Denver startup ecosystem is generous and supportive?—?truly Your background includes over a decade of work in the areas of public health and emergency management. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I have the opportunity to build bridges from NYC to Nairobi, from Dhaka to Denver, from Silicon Valley to Singapore. And then there are all the dating anecdotes from my six years in NYC (but that’s a very entertaining book and I’m digressing). Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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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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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2014

While driving down Highway 36 from Boulder to Denver for a FullContact board meeting, TA McCann told me a wonderful phrase that I’ve been carrying around with me for the past month or so. TA was a co-founder and the CEO. TA was a co-founder and the CEO. A year ago he co-founded RivalIQ.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

He is the co-founder of McKee Wallwork, a nationally recognized marketing advisory firm that made the Inc. Recent, an episode featured Max Novak, the founder of Nova Cast, where he talked all about how podcast booking campaigns create value for listeners and for brands. And you can listen to it all on your lunch break.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

by Graham Beck , founder of DropDesk Coworking. In recent years, the co-working landscape has dramatically shifted, especially in major cities like New York and Boston, where the tech industry’s demand for these spaces is high. How do you compete with the best co-working spaces in New York? You ask an expert (or seven).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2015

By Al Fialkovich, Managing Director, Founder and Co-Owner of Transworld Business Advisors of Denver. Al Fialkovich is Managing Director, Founder and Co-Owner of TBA Denver, the largest Transworld Business Advisors bureau in the state of Colorado. Thinking of selling your business in the next five years?

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

If you are interested in impact investing, I encourage you to join the Impact Finance Center (IFC) and presenting funders The Anschutz Foundation, Zoma Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation , Colorado Health Foundation , and Gary Community Investments at CO Impact Days 2017 , Nov 15-17, in Denver, Colorado.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2010

There are two such stories in Westword Denver this week. The founders Rob Johnson and Josh Fraser shut the company down in February and wrote a brilliant post-mortem which was republished in this post. That was one of the motivations for David Cohen and I to write Do More Faster. And both are rich in content.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark. Co-founder, Polyvore. Founder, Monsoon and Badmash. Founder, Tout. Founder, Crowdvine. phdc Flip 'n' Learn Shivani Khanna.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

First, he was the co-founder of Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM – currently valued at $8 billion.) He was born in Denver. If you don’t recognize the name Danny Lewin there are two big things to know before you dive into this book. Second, he was likely the very first person to die in the 9/11 attack.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

An entrepreneurial mindset is a must in the New Normal, and law students need to heed LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman’s teachings in The Start-up of You. As such, law schools need to reorient their students’ thinking about their careers.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2016

Chris Laping is the co-founder and CEO of People Before Things, LLC , and the author of “ People Before Things “ “We have now committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.” – Edwin Markham. These stories took me back to an experience I had a number of years ago when the.COM bubble busted.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

Dan Caruso, the co-founder/CEO of Zayo Group , is one of them. Though ICG was headquartered in south Denver, we opened up a small satellite office on 8th and Pearl — right behind Nick and Willy’s. By the time we sold to Level 3, our total proceeds to equity owners and management were $225M.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

By Kurt Rathmann, CEO and Co-Founder, ScaleFactor. As a former CPA who left the business world to help business leaders protect their passions, I’ve seen how easy it is for founders to lose sight of the reason they got started. However, I’ve also seen how founders were able to turn things around and get back on track.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Smarter Sorting already has a live pilot here in Austin, working with Austin Resource Recovery, and has commitments to begin pilots with Portland, OR, Mesa County, CO, and Salt Lake City, UT. Austin Mayor Steve Adler The event was kicked off by Austin Mayor Steve Adler and MCed by Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2016

by John Thies, CEO and co-founder of Email on Acid. John Thies is the CEO and Co-Founder of Email on Acid , a service that gives email marketers a preview of how their emails are displayed in the most popular email clients and mobile devices. He resides in Denver, Colorado with his wife and son.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2016

by John Thies, CEO and co-founder of Email on Acid. John Thies is the CEO and Co-Founder of Email on Acid , a service that gives email marketers a preview of how their emails are displayed in the most popular email clients and mobile devices. He resides in Denver, Colorado with his wife and son.

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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’s Team in Austin, courtesy photo Swivel, an Austin-based office leasing platform, announced Tuesday that it has raised $8 million.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 26, 2017

We met with a group of founders who were all successfully building startups there. We did a big public event at inspire9 which is an awesome co-working space there and learned that several startups I knew were based there or in the same building, including Rome to Rio and 99 Designs. And it’s paying off.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2018

Notley supports pretty much every other social entrepreneurship initiative there is in Austin and they are now expanding their reach to cities like Atlanta, Dallas and Denver. As Austin becomes the next social innovation capital, this coworking model is poised to provide an important missing piece?

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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. RSVP here Sept.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 27, 2018

My favorite innovative entrepreneur and mentor is Jeff Hoffman, founder of Priceline among a slew of other raging successes! Since then, he’s launched a hugely successful podcast, co-founded the documentary series 30for30, founded the culture site Grantland, and launched a television show on HBO. 2- Jeff Hoffman. 8- Walt Disney.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

1) Silicon Valley / San Francisco is too expensive With the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area these days, a lot startup capital must now go towards founders’ rent. I need to spend more time in Denver/Boulder, Salt Lake City, and Austin. This will make it harder for SF to compete for startup founder talent.

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