Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Announcing the Greater Colorado Venture Fund ! I am proud to share that the Colorado Venture Capital Authority (VCA), in conjunction with the Office of Economic Growth and International Trade (OEDIT), has selected the Greater Colorado Venture Fund to steward the state’s rural venture capital allocation.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 22, 2010

And while I’m going to argue (forcefully) here that neither my partners nor I either believe this to be true or even wish for that kind of market power, I should acknowledge that I’ve heard this before. Nine of them are based in Colorado (all of those in Boulder). And the numbers support me. Strongly. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Taking Care of Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Brian Clark and I have been friends for a really long time and they have certainly set the standard on how to build a business, how to build a brand, how to take care of a community. Transcript of The Key to Success? Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2018

As many of you know, my partner Jason is from Detroit. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Law School. Jason is returning to Detroit to sprinkle some of the wisdom he has learned along the way with the Detroitpreur startup community at Bamboo Detroit on April 5th from 6-8 pm. The Motor City.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Some time ago a group of entrepreneurs including my partner Seth Levine came together to talk about how to promote entrepreneurship in Colorado and celebrate the fact that entrepreneurship has become a huge part of the Colorado business ecosystem. Both efforts are grass roots, totally network based, and driven by entrepreneurs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 25, 2024

She emphasizes balancing vitality with meaning, setting anticipatory goals, and the importance of community and accountability in achieving a fulfilling life. I'm here in the mountains in Colorado, in a rural area. And yeah, here's where I look at this. No, mainly because I'm very intentional about this.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Capacity Capital, Greater Colorado Venture Fund, Indie.VC, Reformation Partners, UP Fund, Versatile VC. Lower level of community familiarity.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). There are hundreds of paragraphs I could write about all of the amazing things Rally Software has done for the Boulder Startup Community and for the extended city of Boulder.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

Being a long-term partner is important to us since doing business online necessitates ongoing website and online marketing maintenance and improvement. When we work with our customers, we become their business partners and assist them expand their companies over time. Thanks to Jason Polk, Colorado Relationship Recovery ! #11-

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 29, 2021

On another front, Vincent Robinson, the founder and managing partner of an executive search group that recruits leaders at foundations and nonprofits, disagrees with the #ShowTheSalary campaign’s principles.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 14, 2019

From June 5 to June 8, Techstars Startup Week West Slope will be happening on the western slope in Colorado, with the main event in Grand Junction. I’m doing a Keynote at on Thursday, June 6 from 11:30am – 1:00pm at Colorado Mesa University. and the world.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

10 Shocking Twitter Pictures From the Colorado Springs Wildfire. Are you hosting an event in the community? Top From Our Partners. Mashable’s 20 million unique visitors and 6 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged online news communities. Global Syndication Partners. Trending Stories.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2018

The number of food meetups and events in Boulder (including Startup Weekend Boulder Food + Tech) as well as events and initiatives all around the state of Colorado has reached a critical mass. The post A Workshop for Colorado Food Entrepreneurs in Hotchkiss, CO – June 21 and 22 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities. Banks was an old hand at online communities, after all – at age 12, he’d host computer Bulletin Board Systems right out of his parent’s closet. Facilitating Blog Interaction. Just Do It.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 25, 2021

The Community Foundation: Boulder County is partnering with others to support the victims, their families, and our community in dealing with and processing the March 22 supermarket shooting in Boulder. The Boulder County Crisis Fund is the best choice.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Almost as good as the blog itself is the thoughtful and intelligent community that posts hundreds of insightful comments on a daily basis. The Andreesen Horowitz blog is the work of the famous VC firm’s partners and covers all things software in Silicon Valley and beyond. Above the Crowd. Follow Bill on Twitter @billgurley.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2011

I feel strongly that the one of the important elements of building a sustainable entrepreneurial community over a long period of time is for the entire existing entrepreneurial community to be extremely welcoming to young college graduates. In addition, it keeps smart, well educated people (college graduates) in the local community.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2019

This first appeared in the Boulder Community Health Foundation Summer 2019 Magazine in an article titled Taking On The Mental Health Stigma. I was healthy, my business (Foundry Group) was successful, I had an excellent marriage to Amy Batchelor, was surrounded by numerous friends, and I got to live in Boulder, Colorado.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Today, my partners at Foundry Group and I are contributing $100,000 to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) to help with the Boulder Flood Relief Effort. My partners and I are lucky. I’ve always felt a strong responsibility to the community I call home. Major parts of Longmont are now submerged.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In Maybe we are talking about community servants or folks we previously thought were community servants. We can be deliberate about these things.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

My partners and I, especially Jason Mendelson, have been very involved with Silicon Flatirons over the past decade. Phil’s note to the Silicon Flatirons community follows. Supporting entrepreneurs in our community is a central part of our mission. One of the key leaders in this activity is Brad Bernthal. You are awesome.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

And we all have some Irish ancestors so we settled on Fior Partners. We like to think we’re our clients true partners… Thanks to Dana Sullivan Kilroy, Fior Partners ! #5- My wife came up with our business name after a trip to Colorado to hike. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 23, 2020

At Foundry Group, my partners and I spent most of our week focused inwardly on our portfolio, individual companies, supporting our partner funds, and providing as much content and connection as we could across all the companies in a rapidly changing environment. More are coming this week.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

I don’t need to tell you about the devastation that has rocked Colorado over the past week. I’ve lived in Colorado for 17 years and I’ve never seen anything like it. While Ryan, Jason, Brad and I started Foundry with a national vision, being part of the Boulder community was always core to the Foundry identity.

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VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. That’s the order of states with the greatest dollar value of seed and early stage investment according to a PWC MoneyTree study that my partner Jason blogged about today. 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011.

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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. Enter Spark Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 11, 2021

My partner Seth Levine and his co-author Elizabeth MacBride recently wrote an important book called The New Builders: Face to Face with the True Future of Business. But, unfortunately, the Covid crisis has decimated many local businesses and dramatically impacted communities everywhere. It is out and available.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 10, 2020

On May 14th at 5:30pm, a group of us are going to have a virtual birthday party for Colorado Governor Jared Polis. I’m co-chairing the party with my wife Amy Batchelor, my partner Seth Levine, his wife Greeley Sachs, and our friends Mo and Jennifer Siegel. This year, it’s for the Colorado COVID Relief Fund.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We collect more data on an individual business than, to our knowledge, any other RBI investor, through our application process, data partners, and various public sources online. Bigfoot Capital. Key elements: . “We

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2019

Defy Colorado is growing nicely after some overall challenges with the national organization in 2018. Defy Colorado is now a separate 501c(3) and my partner Jason Mendelson and his wife Jenn Mendelson have been playing a huge leadership role with the Defy Colorado team. Don’t miss it – register now.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2023

GlueCon will occur for the thirteenth time, on May 24th-25th, in Broomfield, Colorado. My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 27, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an event a bunch of us in the Boulder startup community are putting together called #BoulderWin, a celebration for the sale of Gnip to Twitter. All of the proceeds are going to Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. BoulderWin is happening on June 4th from 7pm – 10pm at the Boulder Theater.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

Over the years, I’ve written about my belief in the importance of giving back to your communities and #givefirst. In this spirit, one of the key organizations my partners at Foundry Group have helped create and nurture is Pledge 1%. Pledge 1% Colorado has now distributed over $8 million back to various organizations in our community.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

At this week’s VCIR Winter the RMVCA will be announcing a partnership with the Entrepreneur’s Foundation of Colorado. Having been involved in both organizations for years, I couldn’t be more thrilled to see them coming together to help each other out.

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David Cohen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For those of you in Boulder or Seattle that interpreted the communications as a disparagement of the startup community and its impact – that was definitely not the intent. The separately funded partner accelerator programs which operate in more than 30 locations worldwide are unchanged. We’re sorry for that.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2021

My long-time business partner Seth Levine has written a book with Elizabeth MacBride titled The New Builders: Face to Face with the TRUE Future of Business. While this group of founders and business owners may not get the same press that tech entrepreneurs get, they profoundly impact their local communities.

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