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JUNE 2, 2010

And now, on the eve of TechStars Boston 2010 Demo Day, here is your weekly dose of The Founders video series. If you are going to be in Boston tonight at TechStars Demo Day, I’ll see you there! "The "The Innovation Lab" The Founders | TechStars Boulder | Episode 2 from TechStars on Vimeo.

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JUNE 3, 2010

A few weeks ago I was on two panels at Google I/O 2010. The video from one of them – Making Freemium work – converting free users to paying customers is up. Don Dodge from Google is the moderator and my fellow panelists are Dave McClure, Jeff Clavier, Matt Holleran, and Joe Kraus.

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JULY 19, 2010

I’m extremely excited that Senator Mark Udall (D-CO), the senior senator for Colorado, has signed on as a co-sponsor of The Startup Visa Act of 2010 that was originally proposed by Senators Kerry (D-MA) and Lugar (R-IN).

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JULY 26, 2017

My favorite Onion article of all time (from 2010) is U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion. It starts off with some Bernanke brilliance. “You know what?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The seed investing phenomenon of 2010 has been awesome to watch and participate in. The velocity of activity from individual angels, angel groups, seed VCs (the correct phrase for most of the "super angels" which have now raised actual funds), and even traditional VCs has been on a steep climb throughout the year. ?

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MAY 5, 2014

We were the original investors in Orbotix and I joined their board in the fall of 2010 after they went through the Techstars Boulder program. Today, Orbotix , the maker of Sphero, has raised a new round of $15.5 million, led by Shea Ventures and including new investor Grishin Robotics.

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JUNE 1, 2010

“In five years when you buy a computer you’ll get this.” John Underkoffler, Oblong’s Chief Scientist, at 14:20 in the video. I’ve been friends with John Underkoffler since 1984 and we’ve been investors in Oblong since 2007. Ever since I first met John I knew that he was an amazing thinker.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

s Nike+ platform to 2010?s R/GA creates advertising and marketing products based in technology and design and has earned countless accolades over the years, including Advertising Age’s “Digital A-List” and “Agencies of the Decade.” They are the force behind the opening title sequence for 1978?s s Superman to 2006?s s HBO Go connected device.

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JANUARY 29, 2023

If you have been following me for a while, you know that in 2010 I stated that the machines have already taken over for us and are patiently waiting for us to feed all human knowledge into them. Dave Jilk and I had a long discussion last night, which included some rambling about AI.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

One of my favorite conferences, Defrag , is really heating up. As always, Eric Norlin is doing a magnificent job of curating the agenda and already has some great headliners such as Esther Dyson, Paul Kedrosky, Vinnie Mirchandani, David Weinberger, Stowe Boyd, and Vivek Wadhwa. Today, Jeff Ma agreed to keynote Defrag.

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JULY 15, 2010

This week’s episode of The Founders is all about “the team.&# Ryan Sarve r from Twitter is the guest of honor so all my links will be twitter handles. David’s mom ( gingerale ) makes a nice appearance (follow her and follow my dad sfeld while you are at it) along with Eric Norlin of Glue , Defrag , and now Blur.

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JUNE 8, 2010

One of my often quoted lines is that “fear is a useless emotion in business.” Sure – self doubt enters the picture on occasion and there are plenty of dark days, but why be fearful of anything? There’s just no value in it. "Be Fearless.

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MAY 5, 2021

She was using a 2010 Mac, and it was time for her to use one that didn’t have an endless spinning pinwheel of Mac slowness on it. My mom is extraordinarily patient. Several weeks ago, I bought her a brand new Mac as a mother’s day present. I had it sent to me, although there’s a whole story in just that. So many cables.

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MARCH 12, 2010

If you happen to live in North Carolina or regularly attend the CED Venture Conference (the Southeast US’s longest running early stage company financing conference), come say hello to me on April 21st. I’ll be spending the day at the conference and am speaking on a panel from 1:30pm to 2:45pm.

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JUNE 29, 2010

After a long and awesome day in Seattle ending with a great dinner with the BigDoor board at Emmer & Rye , I came back to my room and watched Episode 6 of this year’s TechStars Founders video serious.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The Defrag Conference is happening in Boulder on Wednesday November 17th and Thursday November 18th and is looking like it will be the best one yet. If you haven’t yet registered, use the code “foundry2″ to take 15% off of your registration.

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MARCH 26, 2018

It explains, in detail, how easy it was for any developer to get massive amounts of data from the Facebook Graph API between 2010 and 2015 (where Ben suggests that Facebook was willing to give everything away.) .” For a more balanced, but equally intense view, Ben Thompson at Stratechery has a long post titled The Facebook Brand.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Your friends Jason and Brad make guest appearance, as does the infamous Do Not Call list. "Let’s "Let’s Be Honest" The Founders | TechStars Boulder | Episode 4 from TechStars on Vimeo.

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JULY 27, 2010

This week’s special guest are Jeff Clavie r from SoftTech VC and Rob Hayes from First Round Capital. Among other things, you get to hear Jeff define the Three Asses Rule and Rob explain what happens after you finish the TechStars program.

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JULY 21, 2010

Eric Ries is this week’s guest star on The Founders. Eric is an incredible speaker and is traveling the world on a mission to help people stop wasting other people’s time. If you don’t follow Eric’s thoughts on Lean Startups on his blog Lessons Learned , you should.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The Kauffman Foundation just announced that they are providing 15 scholarships to Defrag. If you are an entrepreneur running a startup that is pre-Series A funding, you are eligible for a scholarship. Kauffman will cover the full cost of the conference pass – all you have to do is get to the conference and find a place to sleep.

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MAY 3, 2021

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I’ve been involved in and advocating for legal immigration since 2010, when, with a half dozen other VCs and entrepreneurs, I co-created the Startup Visa initiative.

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JULY 6, 2010

This week’s episode of The Founders appears to be “baby themed.&# With cupcakes. “The Element of Surprise&# The Founders | TechStars Boulder | Episode 7 from TechStars on Vimeo.

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APRIL 22, 2020

A wave of entrepreneurship around the world was unleashed coming out of the Global Financial crisis in 2010. Today, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship are more important than ever.

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MAY 25, 2010

We’re doing the TechStars Founders video serious again this year. The Rackspace Cloud has sponsored the series so look for some new and exciting twists. Episode 1 follows! "The "The Question is Why" The Founders | TechStars Boulder | Episode 1 from TechStars on Vimeo.

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MARCH 24, 2020

My premise around 3D printers when we made our first investment in 2010 in MakerBot was that ultimately everyone would want a 3D printer on their desktop. My friends at Formlabs have launched a Formlabs Covid-19 Network and are working on numerous 3D printable solutions for the crisis.

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JULY 17, 2023

I was deeply involved with the Startup Visa movement back in 2010. Unsurprisingly, the motivation stemmed from personal frustrations with the immigration system in the U.S. Legal immigration, especially for high-skilled immigrants, has been important to me for over a decade.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

A number of colleagues throughout the entrepreneurial community (entrepreneurs, angels, VCs) joined in on the effort as it became a formal grass-roots movement, resulting in several bills being drafted in Congress in 2010 and then 2011.

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JANUARY 19, 2014

Sebastian Thrun went on to head Google’s autonomous car project, which first received press coverage in 2010 and continues to captivate our imagination. In 2010, the cost of Google’s self-driving technology was $150,000 , of which $70,000 was just the lidar (a highly accurate laser-based radar).

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AUGUST 26, 2019

In 2010, David Cohen and I wrote a book titled Do More Faster. It was filled with stories and advice from founders, investors, and mentors from around the first two years of Techstars. This was the first book I wrote. David and I learned the joy and pain of writing a book.

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MARCH 6, 2019

If you hung around me during the 2007 – 2010 time period when I was on the Zynga board, you would have heard me talk with amazement at how easy it was to manipulate people into spending huge amounts of their time tending their virtual farm on FarmVille. All of this happened a decade ago.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

I remember seeing Ian and Adam’s video application to TechStars for the Boulder 2010 program (at the time the company was called Gearbox). Having watched Sphero come to life over the past 17 months, starting as a seed of an idea in the heads of two mad geniuses (Ian Bernstein and Adam Wilson) has been awesome.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Million To Be The eHarmony For Jobs : RoundPegg was in the TechStars Boulder 2010 class. F.lux is Awesome : F.lux automatically adjusts the brightness on your computer based on your lighting conditions and time of day. I noticed it from a tweet from @jvaleski – it’s just killer. RoundPegg Raises $1.27

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JANUARY 12, 2021

In 2010, when the world began to emerge from the global financial crisis, Techstars started its first wave of real growth. David Brown and I are each board members, joined by Stephanie Copeland, John China, Shanel Fields, and Maëlle. Having talked to many great potential CEOs, we are incredibly excited about working with Maëlle.

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MAY 9, 2011

The new Startup Visa Act of 2011 has plenty of improvements over the 2010 Act (which was introduced but never went anywhere) but still is stuck in Congress. Immigration Policy : Make it easy for foreigner entrepreneurs to come to the US, or for foreign students to stay in the US, and start companies.

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MAY 2, 2010

Following is an outstanding 30 minute presentation by Jesse Schell at DICE 2010 explaining how our life is just one big game. PS3 Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5. Points everywhere, followed by an optimistic call to use this to make us better.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

I wrote my first book, Do More Faster , with David Cohen in 2010. I remember sitting at my kitchen table in Homer, Alaska in July 2010 at 2am almost crying with frustration. Our 2014 project is FG Press. We worked with our publisher Wiley, who took a chance on us.

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