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OCTOBER 31, 2010

Last week I posted an article on peHUB titled How to Create a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. Here it is in its entirety. I’ve lived in Boulder for 15 years after living in Boston for a dozen. While I’ve spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley — both as an angel and venture capital investor — I’ve never lived there. While the firm I’m a partner in — Foundry Group — invests all over the United States, I regularly hear statements like, “The only place to start a tech company is in Silicon Va

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Terry Kawaja of Luma Partners created today’s hilarious XtraNormal to help us understand what is going on at ad:tech. Tags: Great Stuff humor.

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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. The confirmed Keynote Speakers include: Alex Wright addressing the “deep history&# of Oral Culture and Social Networks.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

If you are in Boulder, come to my community hours today between 1 and 5 at the Boulder Bookstore on Pearl Street. David Cohen ( TechStars CEO and co-author of Do More Faster ) and I will be hanging out all afternoon, talking to whoever shows up about anything that is on your mind, and signing copies of Do More Faster until the Boulder Bookstore runs out of them.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

We got tired of Google having all the fun so we put up a new drawing of us on the Foundry Group home page. Google also did a nice job with the Mystery Machine in the background. Happy Halloween from Brad “Not your Mummy&# Feld, Seth “Franken-Levine&# , Ryan “El Diablo&# McIntyre, and Jason “Count&# Mendelson. Tags: Foundry Group halloween humor.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

My friends at Orbotix , a TechStars Boulder 2010 company that Foundry Group invested in recently, are having their second hackathon on 11/13 – 11/14 at their office in Boulder. Orbotix is the gang that is “reinventing the ball&# while also creating smartphone apps that control robots. The November Hackathon is all about hacking Android apps and there will be a contest that I’ll be judging on Sunday afternoon along with Paul Berberian (Orbotix’s CEO) and Julian Farrior fr

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

My mom ( Cecelia Feld ) has had a huge positive impact on my life in many ways. I like to think that I’ve also had a huge positive impact on her life, although I’m sure there have been times that she wanted to hide in a closet from me and scream at the top of her lungs. Cecelia is an amazing artist who has worked at her craft her entire adult life.

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