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Citizens of Colorado – Stay At Home #DoingMyPart

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Colorado Governor Polis #DoingMyPartCO Presentation – 03-27-2020 from Brad Feld. Consequently, our actions every minute, every hour, and every day will make an impact on the magnitude of the surge, and whether we can flatten the curve enough so that we can handle it in Colorado. Please do your part and stay at home.

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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

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Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good. The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters.

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Jason Returns to the 313 for Startup Grind Detroit on April 5th

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Early in his career, Jason was a software engineer at Accenture. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Law School. 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.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

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(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. —– Greater Colorado Venture Fund (GCVF) is a $17M seed fund that invests in high growth startups in rural Colorado using equity and Flexible VC structuring. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

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Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. I live in Colorado and like I can't imagine riding over who's your pass. So in some sense that was the investment, right? Mike Evans (17:42): Yeah.

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Navigating the Challenges of Scaling

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He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Having founded active campaign as a means to fund his education, Jason pursued a degree in fine arts until shifting his focus entirely to growing the company and his self-taught software engineer and technologist. So Jason, welcome back to the show.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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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. Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo.