Feld Thoughts

MARCH 25, 2015

If you are a founder or employee of a startup in Boulder and want to increase the overall effectiveness of our local Boulder government, please help us fund the Code for America Fellowship in Boulder. Boulder is internationally recognized as a very successful startup community and this entrepreneurial approach fits Colorado well.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2020

I was at a dinner event last night in Denver where, predictably, coronavirus (which I’ve been trying to call Covid-19, but everyone seems to default back to coronavirus) came up. Over the past year, as Ian Hathaway and I worked on our upcoming book The Startup Community Way , I’ve thought a lot about complex systems.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Like many here in Boulder, I felt that Boulder City Councilperson Macon Cowles’ recent remarks about our startup community were both ignorant and offensive. ” His over simplified view that Boulder’s entrepreneurial community is the direct source of an affordable housing shortage is grossly incorrect. His post follows.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

It gets to the heart of how startup communities are developed and I’d love to have you join me at it. That Boulder was number one was interesting, but what’s more exciting is that there are so many emergent startup communities around the United States that it’s now worth ranking them. Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs.)

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 18, 2012

” This was quite a reversal from the headline in the Denver Post 4.5 Here are some snippets from the article in the Denver Post on 2/21/08. Ritter has been doing to grow this renewable-energy cluster,” said Joe Blake, president of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. Related articles.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. And we've layered that with another crises of the exposure of continued racial injustice throughout our communities.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Like many here in Boulder, I felt that Boulder City Councilperson Macon Cowles’ recent remarks about our startup community were both ignorant and offensive. ” His over simplified view that Boulder’s entrepreneurial community is the direct source of an affordable housing shortage is grossly incorrect. His post follows.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Key stakeholders in the broader healthcare ecosystem will be co-located under one roof: entrepreneurs, universities, established companies and strategic partners, providers, payers, hospitals, service providers, associations, advocacy groups, government and more. The team at MATTER also realizes that facilities alone will not do the trick.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2013

In yet another insane move by government against entrepreneurs and job creators, the Colorado PUC is proposing a new set of rules that would shut down Uber in Colorado. Government supporting powerful incubants (the taxi industry) that are threatened by disruptive innovators through regulation. And tell everyone you know.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Meredith Hitchcock , co-founder and COO of RideAlong The judging panel recognized the immense benefit this provides to a community, as many officers respond to calls with minimal information — potentially creating dangerous consequences for citizens.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I wrote a chapter about this in my book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepre neurial Ecosystem in Your City explaining why and how CU Law has taken a different approach to the engagement of the of a university and the entrepreneurial community. Engage with the community. Step back and think about it a little.

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Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. Another community, you can find out that information.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2018

a new coworking and meeting space at the Springdale General social impact community in East Austin where you can only be a member if you are a social impact entrepreneur. Like our downtown location, meeting space will be provided at low or no cost to non-profits and community organizations, but unlike downtown there is free parking!

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

The US government, however, lost most of the $2 billion it put into SBIC firms.” And then you’ve got plenty of Boulder / Denver monsters on paper – some in our portfolio (like SendGrid and Sympoz) and others like Zayo, Ping, Logrhythm, and Datalogix. “Then when you dig into it, there were some problems.”

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Denver, CO?—? City governments connect with local entrepreneurs, corporations, and community leaders to grow and sustain a vibrant startup economy. Techstars enables entrepreneurs, large companies, and city governments to access proven resources to innovate faster and accelerate their business success. RSVP here Sept.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. billionfor the same lesson, partly because they could then tell themselvesthat they were buying a phenomenon, or a community, or some vaguething like that. 10 ]Yes, actually: dealing with the government. Afterthat theres not much.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

He correctly identifies the reasons why Chicago, Denver, Cincinnati, and other smaller cities are becoming vibrant centers of start-ups. Rural areas have been neglected by both commercial companies and the government. I don’t want this to be a government service, but any port in the storm. It’s not universal.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2016

Yesterday Hillary Clinton announced her Initiative on Technology & Innovation at Galvanize in Denver. Launch a “Model Digital Communities” Grant Program. Promote Multi-Stakeholder Internet Governance. Smarter and More Innovative Government. Make Government Simpler and More User Friendly.

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