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Rally Gives $1.3 Million To The Boulder Community

Feld Thoughts

This check is for The Community Foundation and for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) and results from a gift of 24,793 shares of common stock from Rally at the time of its first financing that represented approximately 1% of the equity of the company. Philanthropy Boulder Colorado EFCO investments rally software'

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The Accomplishments of Entrepreneur, Justin Halladay

The Startup Magazine

He worked for corporations in Pennsylvania, Colorado, New York, and his native state of New Jersey, among other places. After that, he spent five years working for a tiny software development firm in Jacksonville Beach. Halladay even worked for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter for six years in the World Trade Center.

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4 Things I’ve Learned As An Entrepreneur Right Out Of College

Up and Running

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. Alex understood he knew next to nothing about software development and engineering, so he searched for an engineer. He also wasn’t a pro at marketing, so he looked for marketers.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. But I’ll end with one of them – the creation of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (now Pledge 1% ).

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

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How Falling In Love With My Product Killed My Business

Software By Rob

Software development wasn’t giving me the satisfaction I craved from working, and I had recently been part of a startup that was now a smoking crater after the Dot Com crash. He writes enterprise Java software for a living but loves the thrill of starting and managing new businesses. He lives and works in Denver, Colorado.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right.

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