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OCTOBER 13, 2011

I often fly Virgin America from SFO or LAX to BOS or NY. ” It’s actually kind of enjoyable to be spending the day on Virgin America flying across the country. As a result, I’m flying “all day” – leaving SFO at 9am and getting in to Boston around 6pm.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The post Time to Flip Power In America Upside Down appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I just bought Jennifer’s book The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy and plan to read it this weekend. Government government immigration metropolitan revolution startup communities'

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JANUARY 6, 2012

I’ve been a big supporter of the Startup America Partnership since its inception at the beginning of last year. I also gave my first Startup America webinar today to a bunch of entrepreneurs who are members of Startup America Partnership about fundraising. So – sign up now.

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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. If you’d like to contribute, either email me or donate online at the Code for America site.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2016

My weekend reading was Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. The post Book: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America appeared first on Feld Thoughts. When I finished it a few minutes ago, I only had one word for it – “wow.”

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MAY 31, 2020

The amount of uncertainty, on all dimensions of our lives in America right now, are at an extreme high. ” So, I’m starting right now to understand systemic racism in America better and try to get involved in a constructive way to help eliminate it.

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MAY 9, 2011

This afternoon in Boulder I’ll be on a panel as part of the White House Startup America Roundtable. More recently, I’ve focused my energy on the Startup Visa movement and the Startup America Partnership. Over the past few years, I’ve spent some time thinking about how the government can help entrepreneurship.

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JUNE 28, 2016

Launch an Education Reform Dialogue Among America’s Educators. Jump-Start America’s Trade Agenda. .” “Not Enough People with the Skills We Need” Incentivize STEM Education. Launch a Curriculum-Focused Dialogue Between Business and Education. Award “Graduation” Green Cards. Negotiate a U.S.-China

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FEBRUARY 20, 2016

It was superb and the double entendre of the title played out for a full two hours as the movie made us think hard about race in America in the 1930s and what was happening in Nazi Germany at the same time. But first, I want to encourage you to go watch the movie Race which is the story of Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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MAY 4, 2021

As the Covid crisis began, they started writing a series of OpEds that got a lot of play, including To save the US economy, policymakers need to understand small business 101 , and Communities across America rush to save Main Street as federal relief for small business stalls.

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JUNE 11, 2020

Today’s is from Donna Harris, a long time friend who I met through our work on the Startup America Partnership. In my previous post, I said that for a while I’ll include one powerful thing each day that I read about racial injustice and Black Lives Matter. She’s the co-founder of 1776 and now runs Builders and Backers.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Today, most of America is in a liminal space. I’ve personally been in a liminal space for most of 2020. The word liminal comes from the Latin word ‘limen’, meaning threshold – any point or place of entering or beginning. A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next.’

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JULY 15, 2012

Donna Harris, Startup America. And Taylor McLemore of Prediculous has also put in an incredible amount of work on this event on a volunteer basis. Finally – thank you, thank you, thank you to all the mentors helping out next week: Aneesh Chopra, Former US Chief Technology Officer. David Cohen, TechStars. Jared Polis, TechStars.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge (2022). But I hadn’t read much recently other than The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden , which I discovered when reading the extremely disheartening Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West.

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JUNE 29, 2020

I’m so tired of explaining to White people what I’m going through, what I go through every day, and why so many things in America are horrible when you aren’t White. Several of my Black friends recommended Ijeoma’s book as one that I should read early on.

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JUNE 1, 2021

” I expect these are words that have been said in almost every household in America. “Turn off the TV and go outside and play.” Amy and I hit the bottom of the TV barrel last week while watching Army of the Dead. It was so awful it was good. But it was awful. And … It’s June 1 and I’m done for the summer.

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MARCH 26, 2019

legal immigration is a foundational activity that keeps America fresh and helps our country maintain its edge on a global stage. If America hadn’t been there for them, they might have perished in concentration camps during WWII. If America hadn’t been here for him, he would have also likely been annihilated. In the U.S.,

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MARCH 15, 2020

A coalition of 250 CEOs and leaders (and growing by the hour) are asking our fellow business and civic leaders around America to #LeadBoldly and #StoptheSpread of COVID-19.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Ross kicks off the book with some pretty stark statistics: despite the fact that promising startup communities (such as my hometown of Boulder) are thriving, in most communities in America, firm creation is the lowest it’s been in a generation.

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MAY 3, 2021

I introduced them to Doug Rand, who I’d worked with during the Obama administration on several things, including Startup America and the USCIS EIR program. When PSL started ideating on Boundless, I was lucky to be at the PSL office and participate in one of the extended sessions.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Sadly, the America Invents Act , which seeks to provide the Patent Office with tools to operate better and passed recently, does precious little to address the patent litigation mess. Today, we are experiencing a similar threat to innovation with patents playing the role of “weapons of mass destruction.”

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Boomers came to power in earnest in America, and then the lead Boomer got impeached for lying about getting a blow job from an intern in the Oval Office. The 1990s hadn’t gone as expected. A bad recession kicked off Gen X’s adulthood, along with a war in the Middle East and the fall of communism.

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JULY 17, 2023

Unshackled breaks down how legal immigration works in America in a way that is friendly, accessible, and human. I recently wrote the Foreword for Unshackled , a new book co-authored by Soundarya Basubramani , a writer from India, and Sameer Khedekar , a veteran immigration lawyer.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Margaret O’Mara, who wrote The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America , also has a good reminder. Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America’s Air Traffic Control (Wired, Sara Breselor) – ok, is from 2015, but it makes the point. The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers (Bloomberg, Stephen Mihm).

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MAY 23, 2013

Startup Weekend and Startup America Partnership are joining forces to create UP Global. Steve Case, the chairman of Startup America Partnership, will be the chairman of Up Global. I was at the White House for the launch of Startup America , which included launch of the privately funded Startup America Partnership.

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JUNE 1, 2021

” I expect these are words that have been said in almost every household in America. “Turn off the TV and go outside and play.” Amy and I hit the bottom of the TV barrel last week while watching Army of the Dead. It was so awful it was good. But it was awful. And … It’s June 1 and I’m done for the summer.

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JULY 15, 2020

I understood her gloomy assessment, but also felt that America could be on the verge of much needed change. However, you can see Wright’s human optimism creep in as he “[feels] that America could be on the verge of much needed change.” These paragraphs reflect the reality that I’m observing in the US right now.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Startup Colorado will be one of the regional initiatives under the umbrella of the Startup America Partnership. We’ll also be joined by several special guests, including Scott Case (Startup America Partnership CEO) and Aneesh Chopra (United States Chief Technology Officer). Please register at the Silicon Flatirons site.

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MAY 10, 2020

It’s a tough time for everyone, but I’m especially proud to be a Coloradan right now as we work together to help each other.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

To help entrepreneurs worldwide, Startup America is also using its full resources to reach out to millions of entrepreneurs so that we can all read the book together. Leaders of Startup America, including Steve Case (the founder of AOL) and Scott Case (the CEO of Startup America) are going to read and share their notes as well.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Modular Robotics , the makers of Cubelets , were at the Eureka Village (where Startup America was). The first thing I had to do when I got to CES was a panel for Startup America so the Modular Robotics booth was literally one of the first places I stopped after getting to Las Vegas. It was mobbed.

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AUGUST 2, 2020

When I read and reflect on this history, I’m embarrassed, horrified, and furious with elements of White America. Still, I didn’t understand the magnitude of the physical abuse and violence they encountered while operating with the principles of nonviolent protest. Reading the book by John Lewis inspired me on multiple levels.

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MAY 6, 2017

is a comedy drama about the many personal battles faced by immigrants living in America. Just as the prospect of returning home to India starts to look tempting, Vivek meets a girl worth the fight to keep the life he has built in America.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

We had a similar conversation when Startup America Partnership was formed in 2011. Today I noticed a post from Andrew Hyde titled Washington Post Style Guide Now Includes “Startup” as A Word. After some back and forth we all got it right.

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JUNE 28, 2018

I knew that Dominos was paving America’s roads , but I didn’t realize they were branding them. Farhad Manjoo has a good article in the NYT titled How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities. Mona List Overdrive has come true. And Pattern Recognition is on the horizon.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Claudia Reuter , now the Techstars GM Americas East (and previously the Techstars MD for the Stanley+Techstars Additive Manufacturing Accelerator), has a new book coming out called Yes, You Can Do This! How Women Start Up, Scale Up, and Build The Life They Want. I read the final page proofs while I was in Mexico and it is an excellent book.

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