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APRIL 16, 2013

The post The 2013 Boston Marathon appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I just contributed to the Boston Tech Communities fundraiser for the Boston Marathon victims. All proceeds will be donated completely to programs working with victims of the attacks including Red Cross, Children’s Hospital, and others.

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MAY 7, 2013

The post Less Than Three Weeks To Gluecon 2013 appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I’ll be there - absorbing everything that I can along with the rest of you. Use “gluespring” to take 10% off of the registration price. Conferences conference Glue gluecon'

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JUNE 8, 2022

So when Mahendra Ramsinghani came out with the 1st Edition of Startup Boards in 2013, Matt gave me plenty of feedback on the book. Long-time readers of this blog know I had an extended depressive episode in the first half of 2013, and this book was one of the chores that I felt like I just had to get done in that period.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

re-introducing the Startup Visa Act of 2013 (good). The post Startup Visa Act 2013 Introduced By Udall (D-Colo) and Flake (R-Ariz) appeared first on Feld Thoughts. This morning I wrote about the Colorado PUC trying to shut down Uber in Colorado (bad). Now I get to write about Senators Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

If this is interesting to you, they are hosting an event at USV on Monday, November 18, 2013 for 6pm to 8pm for those who can consider making investments of $5,000 and above due to space constraints. Fred and Joanne are doing this with The NYC Foundation For Computer Science Education (the executive director, Evan Korth , is a total star.)

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MAY 5, 2014

shipped in the fall of 2013 and was praised in reviews like the one in TechCrunch which gushed Sphero 2.0 Their first product will “reinvent the ball” through the creation of a robotic ball controlled by a smart phone. They shipped Sphero 1.0 just before the end of 2011 so their first real year in the market was in 2012.

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MAY 13, 2020

I’ve spoken regularly since 2013 about my struggles with anxiety and depression. Since I became public about this in 2013, I’ve met many entrepreneurs who have opened up to me about their own struggles. And his support during my depressive episode in 2013 (which is a story I tell in the video) was incredible.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

It’s 2013. By taking the whole thing offline for nine months, you aren’t in the hell of trying to fix something while it’s completely broken. It’s still a fire drill, but you are no longer inside the building that is burning to the ground. We know a lot more about building complex software than we did in 1980.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

This is the second year that TechStars is running a thematic accelerator in Texas focused just on cloud computing. At Foundry Group , we believe in thematic investing both as a way to organize and filter the massive number of opportunities to look at, but also as a way to build a set of muscles around a sphere of knowledge.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

I accidentally bought twice as many bitcoins as I needed for an online programming course I took in 2013 for about $100 each. It’s hard for me to hate crypto. It’s been economically very good to me. I sold the FIL I got from investing in their SAFT as it vested (daily) and was amazed at how much money resulted.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

The closest I found was from January 1, 2013, in a post titled Give Before You Get. I spent some time looking around, and, while it’s embedded in numerous podcasts and video interviews, I couldn’t find a clear definition on the web. It was turned into the #GiveFirst hashtag by someone at Techstars around 2014.

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MARCH 4, 2019

We’ve been investors in littleBits since 2013. Last night, littleBits was featured as an example in the 60 Minutes segment on Closing the Gender Gap in the Tech Industry. Among other things, I’m especially proud of Ayah Bdeir’s leadership on this issue over the years.

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MAY 28, 2015

The story starts in 2007 with the founding of EFCO , which Ryan and I spearheaded and had a huge punch line in 2013 when Rally Made a Gift of $1.3 But I’ll end with one of them – the creation of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (now Pledge 1% ). Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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JUNE 25, 2019

I started the second week of 2013 in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. During my 2013 depressive episode, I blogged openly about my struggles and what I did. This first appeared in the Boulder Community Health Foundation Summer 2019 Magazine in an article titled Taking On The Mental Health Stigma.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

David Brown joined full-time in 2013 and did a spectacular job of growing Techstars to around 300 people and expanding it globally. Entrepreneurship, which in 2006 was just starting to become talked about again after the collapse of the Internet bubble, is a global phenomenon. . Maëlle is joining Techstars at an exciting time.

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MAY 19, 2021

This has been an on-again, off-again project with Dave Jilk that began in 2013. My newest book, The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors , comes out next Tuesday, May 25th. We were spending the weekend in Keystone with our wives (Amy and Maureen), which generally involved a lot of sitting around reading.

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JULY 25, 2013

Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013 2:19:42 AM. Many of you are out on the frontier, and I thought Zack captured the essence of it in his message to his team. . From: Zachary Rosen. To: Pantheon Staff. Subject: Welcome to The Frontier.

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MAY 16, 2014

I encourage you to take a look at the UP Global 2013 Impact Report. Go look at the UP Global 2013 Impact Report. It’s 28 slides and when I looked at it early today it blew my mind. Here are a few key metrics: 310,000 alumni and volunteers. 4,500 mentors. 132,000 businesses. 87,000 developers. 39,000 designers. 501 cities.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Two of the technology world’s biggest names have now added the Structure Sensor to their roster of award-winning new technology products for 2013 and 2014. Check out Popular Science’s “Best Of What’s New” for 2013 here. Every year, Popular Science chooses 100 products they consider to be the “Best of What’s New.”

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JUNE 12, 2020

She first emailed me in January 2013, I was an early investor in her first fund, and have tried to be available anytime she’s reached out. Arlan’s book is outstanding and everyone should read it, especially if you are in tech as an entrepreneur, investor, or aspiring entrepreneur. Arlan is also outstanding.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

But by mid-year 2013 things were not going as planned. Shortly after, he acknowledged his depression in his post at the end of 2013 when he wrote Can’t Sleep; Caught in The Loop. The first nine months were great – the business grew as planned as I started to get to know everyone and how things worked at Moz.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur (Feld / Batchelor) (available January 2013, pre-orders now). S tartup Boards: Reinventing the Board of Directors to Better Support the Entrepreneur (Feld / Ramsinghani) (available summer 2013). Look for a few more additions to the series soon.

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JULY 30, 2015

We subsequently raised a $225 million fund in 2010 , another one in 2013 , and a late stage fund in 2013. Our 2013 fund was originally raised in 2012, but we didn’t start investing it until 2013 so we renamed it 2013. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007.

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MARCH 5, 2013

If you are a revenue generating company, you’ve probably got a formally approved 2013 plan by now (if not, why not?) Step 4: Re-forecast Q1 and the rest of 2013 based on what you expect the actuals for Q1 to be. As part of this, get a new 2013 plan approved that takes into consideration what you learned in Q1.

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JANUARY 20, 2014

On April 16, 2013 I wrote a post about the horrific tragedy at the 2013 Boston Marathon. Here’s how it started: At 3:55pm yesterday I cried. I was getting ready for a Google Hangout back to my office with my partners and I noticed something about an explosion at the Boston Marathon on twitter.

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JANUARY 1, 2014

I’ve been deeply conflicted with alcohol in 2013. In other time periods, including around the Internet bubble and 2013, I found myself drinking more than I felt was ok as I used it to dull the edges of the stress and anxiety. Many of you out there provided great support, friendship, and advice in 2013.

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JUNE 7, 2017

I was an early angel investor in Harmonix in the mid-1990s, enjoyed the Viacom acquisition of Harmonix in 2007, watched Alex and his co-founder Eran acquire Harmonix back from Viacom in 2010, and then I invested again in the company in 2013 with my partners at Foundry Group.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

ExactTarget went public in 2012 and was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2013 for $2.5 If you don’t know Scott, he was the co-founder and CEO of ExactTarget (2000) – one of the original SaaS companies. billion and became the core of the current Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

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JANUARY 1, 2013

As 2013 begins, I encourage you to adopt one of my deeply held beliefs, that of “ give before you get.”. As you begin 2013, consider adopting a give before you get approach. I feel the same way about my non-work life. It might surprise you what you’ll get!

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MAY 27, 2013

If you want something serious from Terry, his 20 minute State in the State of Digital Media 2013 is definitely worth watching. But to really grok how awesome Use Bitcoin is, you have to watch Wear Sunscreen first. It follows. Now – Use Bitcoin. Count me inspired. And amused. LUMA’s State of the State at DMS13 from Terence Kawaja.

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JULY 7, 2013

I’ve decided not to travel at all for the rest of 2013, except for three personal trips (my parents 50th anniversary, Amy’s birthday, and my birthday.) Even though it has only been seven weeks, when I look forward to the rest of 2013 I feel huge amounts of open space and time in front of me.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Amy and I have decided to do a number of smaller events around Startup Life as we travel around the world together in 2013. If you want to see if our paths will intersect in 2013, feel free to email me. We like the smaller events as they are more intimate and allow for a deeper conversation, where we learn things also.

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JANUARY 6, 2017

In 2013, when I got depressed, I decided not to travel for a year. I think the 2017 crop of home robots at CES will be like the 2013 crop of 3D TVs. When I arrived back at the room at 10pm, I was done / baked / toasted / wiped. While 90% of them will fail, it’s pretty awesome to see what entrepreneurs are working on.

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JUNE 17, 2020

After I had a six-month depressive episode in 2013, I put energy into trying to destigmatize depression and mental health issues, especially in tech and entrepreneurship. While my effort here has been consistent, the impact is slow and often invisible.

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JULY 10, 2019

United Way Foothills – After the Colorado flood in 2013 we decided to step up and fill a gap in funding from Foothills United Way. Museum of Boulder – Our city has a rich history on numerous dimensions. We now have a museum in downtown to be proud of.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

will begin in March of 2013 and conclude in June with two investor demo days; one in Portland and one in Silicon Valley. The application deadline is February 3rd, 2013. The technology focus will be about leveraging the success of the Nike+ FuelBand, Nike+ Running and NikeFuel to support digital innovation.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

The punch line in the post is: “By many measures , Colorado is the most entrepreneurial state in the country, a fact that I discovered in 2013 when studying high-technology business formation around the United States. He goes on to explain Jared and Phil’s huge accomplishments and impacts around startups and the startup community.

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