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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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Well, I moved four years ago or bought a house in Colorado about four years ago and slowly moved. So they need that partner, right. And I was the sixth member of our sixth member leadership team to get replaced. You know, we replaced every other leader of the leadership team. But yeah, it was 15 years ago.

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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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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.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2020

In addition to his leadership at Foundry, the companies he’s involved in, a number of initiatives in Colorado generally and Longmont specifically, and with his family, my partner Seth Levine has written several excellent posts in around the Covid Crisis.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 13, 2020

In some cases, I’m the first person they’ve ever talked to because of the stigma associated with mental health issues, especially around leadership (e.g. When I listen to her talk about her experience with me around these issues, I realize how incredibly lucky I am to have a partner who has supported me from the very beginning.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

In this spirit, one of the key organizations my partners at Foundry Group have helped create and nurture is Pledge 1%. In 2007, we were a founding member in the predecessor organization to Pledge 1%, called Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (or EFCO). And, the companies that have pledged 1% globally is remarkable.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I’ve also gotten know Greg as he’s been active in and provided leadership to the broad Colorado technology landscape, as well as being CEO of one of the most significant and important technology companies in Colorado.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

I woke up to an article in Daily Camera today titled Small Business Administration trying to bring SBIC funds to Colorado. As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC.

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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. After building up our leadership in this area, we formally established this initiative with Brad at the helm in 2008. Supporting entrepreneurs in our community is a central part of our mission.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

In under a year, venture-backed, Boulder, Colorado-based BlogFrog would grow to be the United States’ largest network of mommy blogs – thanks in large part to Hamann’s influence with mommy bloggers – and connect over 1.7 Interestingly, Banks also blogs about leadership. million blogging members and their readers. .

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

For example, you can minor in entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado College of Music. But this type of innovation requires leadership who understands that is their goal. So, if you think about how a large company can innovate, they could build, they could buy, they could partner, they could license. They invent things.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

So has my partner Seth and his wife Greeley, who is currently a trustee on the TNC Colorado board. Amy went to Tanzania and Kenya in 2009 with TNC to increase capacity of TNC non-profit partners. Without realizing it, he was describing the domain of things that Techstars has addressed for many of our corporate partners.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 3, 2020

(This is the fifth post in a series documenting the work I did in Colorado on the Governor’s COVID-19 Innovation Response Team – IRT. Serendipitously might have found private sector partner for one of the teams in need. Other posts in order are 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4.). Thursday, March 26, Day 10. Friday, March 27, Day 11.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 27, 2014

It’s in Colorado at an awesome place called Devil’s Thumb Ranch so I can drive to it and is a topic that’s front of mind for me given my relationship with the various CEOs in our portfolio. I know two of Jerry’s three partners in this endeavor and think Sam Elmore and Ali Schultz are dynamite.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Many see huge dispensaries in Colorado, for example, raking in big bucks. It doesn’t matter if you’re starting your cannabis business in Washington, Colorado, or Maine; you should start by building authentic relationships with your local cannabis community.” ” Know the rules (and follow them!).

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VC Adventure

APRIL 29, 2020

And on top of all of that is the lack of clarity about when things will really begin to change (my partner Brad wrote an excellent post on the disorientation this is causing a few days ago). Many of us now know people who have not only gotten sick from COVID-19 but know someone who lost a family member or close friend.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2015

If suddenly I’m needed for something, or get an assignment from the CEO or anyone else on the leadership team, I get after it. While I have some visibility as a co-founder, I offer it up to David Cohen, David Brown, Mark Solon, and the rest of the Techstars leadership team to use however they want.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.) When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable. Thanks to my wife for being a great partner. Long vacations. We would take at least a 3-week vacation every summer.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 7, 2018

Occasionally we’ll go to a resort in Colorado Springs (a two hour drive). Rotating leadership : When there were four of us, each of us led the offsite once a year. Whoever is on the board is not allowed to speak – they have to listen as the other partners reviews the portfolio company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Empathy, hope and a plan.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. In order for Frisco to achieve its full vision to be a destination city for VC’s, we have to be part of a larger, statewide network to support our partners and entrepreneur support organizations to help advance our collective and common goals.”

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Photo Credit: Roxana Colorado. Thanks to Roxana Colorado, Kandula International, LLC ! #4- They don’t teach this stuff in school and you can’t learn it by reading a book or by listening to a leadership podcast. As an entrepreneur, you control how much you earn and how you conduct your business and I love it.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

I’ve been running this business with my partners for four years now and even though it feels like 138 years ago, I’m still working hard with the same enthusiasm as in the beginning. Colorado River (or Lady Bird Lake ), go kayaking ! I love every single second of it. Once you have this, it’s time to start looking for help.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2019

This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. I mean the next one I was going to share with you is the Village Coffee House in Boulder, Colorado. Transcript of How to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The best answer for any other local economy is to just make the most of who you are, embrace your own identity, partner with Silicon Valley. Take Boulder, Colorado as a model, they’ve successfully created their own very strong economy for startups. And don’t use the word “silicon” in your name.

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VC Adventure

MAY 6, 2020

Launched in 2013 with a mission of partnering with communities to help under-represented individuals successfully start and grow their businesses, EforAll is a pretty special organization. For more information, you can click here and you can also email EforAll Colorado Executive Director, Harris Rollinger, at harris@eforall.org.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2018

The $750 million fund combines all of our prior fund strategies – our early stage, early growth, and partner fund investments – into a single fund. When we started Foundry Group, we had four equal partners. We now have seven equal partners. The seven partners all work directly with the companies and partner funds.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Both at improving your digital engagement and acquisition effectiveness, and at weaning your leadership away from the shiny hollow demo/psycho obsession. For each category, you need to partner with your creative teams on ad content, with your marketing team for ad targeting. Recommend changes. Traffic Sources Competitive Analysis.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2017

Also, I don’t doubt that some RideAustin drivers have received feedback of this nature from passengers, but at the same time it’s unlikely most passengers gave it (and RideAustin’s leadership may be experiencing confirmation bias about it as well). Riverside) are inexpensive.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership. We embrace an optimistic vision for a more inclusive country, where American innovation continues to fuel opportunity, prosperity and leadership. Phin Barnes, Partner, First Round Capital.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership. We embrace an optimistic vision for a more inclusive country, where American innovation continues to fuel opportunity, prosperity and leadership. Phin Barnes, Partner, First Round Capital.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Amongst other things, the OpEd highlights an innovative fund that Colorado has set up to support small businesses, the Energize Colorado Gap Fund. I’m really proud of the work that my partner, Brad Feld, along with Wendy Lea, Mark Nager, and others have done to inject resources into the struggling small businesses in Colorado.

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