Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 3, 2016

However, national borders do still matter and our current immigration system unfortunately isn’t designed to allow anyone looking to create the next Fitbit the ability to easily do so in America. Many of these students want to stay to further the research they started in their programs and build companies from their findings.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I’m in Chicago today at the Startup America Regional Summit where I’m talking about Startup Communities with leaders of about 35 regions that have embraced the Startup America movement. MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program Results. This is the first public session in Boulder about Startup Communities.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2012

It was fun to watch this go viral and get picked up nationally on programs like Good Morning America and Fox News with Neil Cavuto. If that whets your appetite, take a look at the presentation about the new policy. FullContact’s Vacation Policy (a.k.a Paid, PAID Vacation). Hiring great people is intensely competitive in my world.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I remember showing up on one of the first days of the Excelerate program to do a mentor talk and Sam said “I don’t know what the f**k I’m doing but this is going to be awesome!” ” It turned out he did, and it was, and Excelerate quickly became one of the best accelerators in the world.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2010

There was a nice article in Bloomberg Businessweek last week about Why Boulder Is America’s Best Town for Startups. But I’m also game to talk to people that are interested in relocating to what I think is the best small city in America. Tags: Jobs Boulder java Programming.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 12, 2012

Last week Startup Colorado hosted the Startup America Regional Summit which was a gathering of the leadership of over 25 different Startup State efforts under the structure of the Startup America Partnership. Participating interns also will be given the opportunity to work with an area mentor to develop their own business ideas.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 29, 2010

I attended the Bank of America Technology Stars of the Future awards ceremony for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing. Bank of America – who sponsors the awards – was a gracious host, put on a delightful event, and awarded each winner $500 and a laptop (most of which were opened and up and running before the evening was over.).

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2015

Today Techstars announced that it has acquired UP Global , including the organization’s Startup Weekend , Startup Week , Startup Next , and Startup Digest programs. Techstars now has over 18 programs worldwide and counting. This is great news for entrepreneurs everywhere. UP is now in 600 cities, 120 countries and six continents.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 1, 2012

This entrepreneur happens to be from England and his business partner (and best friend since they were kids) is also English, but managed to get into the US because he fell in love with and married and America a while ago. I mean, c’mon, how could any red blooded America object to stealing jobs from foreign countries?

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

They are learning what made America what it is.” ” I’d add Europe to that – following is a picture of me talking to a group of entrepreneurs in Copenhagen this moving via Skype as part of Startup Bootcamp , a TechStars Network partner with accelerator programs in Copenhagen , Dublin , and Madrid.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2012

A few months ago TechStars ran a program for military veterans called TechStars Patriot Boot Camp. The program was a great success, however, a theme arose that startled me. It was powerful and well received. Multiple Veterans told me: “I know Boulder is a great place for startups, but I hear it is not that welcoming to Veterans.”.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I’m super psyched about all the teams I met – it feels like the TechStars New York program is very high quality and off to a great start. Given that I had just been at the White House for the Startup America Partnership, we talked about that some. We finished up with me giving a talk and doing some Q&A.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 15, 2019

New Story is on track to begin creating the world’s first 3D printed community of 50+ homes this summer in Latin America. In addition to me and Amy, my partner Seth Levine and his wife Greeley Sachs are members of the Builders program. For families interested in learning more about the Builders program, email Brett Hagler.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Looking back, it was a remarkable collection of people including my roommate at the program Alan Treffler (CEO of Pegasystems) and Ted Leonsis (then CEO of Redgate – acquired by AOL – where he was then vice-chairman for many years as he worked closely with Steve Case to turn AOL into the amazing company it was in the 1990′s.).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

We’re looking for a leader to create a more robust, dynamic, and connected network program at Foundry Group. We invest in companies and funds across North America. If you are interested in applying, please reach out to us at apply@foundrygroup.com. And please help us get the word out!

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 9, 2015

While the word mentor existed, it was usually a 1:1 relationship, where an individual had a “mentor” It was also more prevalent in corporate America, where to make your way up the corporate ladder you needed a “mentor”, “sponsor”, or a “rabbi.”

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2021

Since then, I’ve been involved in many immigration-related activities, including the Global EIR program , a docu-drama called For Here or To Go , and direct involvement in helping many immigrants to the US get their visas and green cards. Shortly after, I met Xiao Wang, the entrepreneur PSL recruited to be the founding CEO of Boundless.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2018

This article, Engineers Are Leaving Trump’s America for the Canadian Dream , stimulated a simple thought for me. startup visa draws only 10 applicants as Trump throttles program , I thought to myself “duh.” Canada has a huge, near-term competitive opportunity over to the US. .

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2017

During his time as Dean, he set up a range of innovative partnerships around the State, including a program that placed recent law grads as assistant district attorneys in rural areas. We are not investing enough yet in programs that make it less likely that inmates end up back in prison after they are released, such as Defy Ventures.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2013

While I’m happy that USCIS continues to try to education its workforce as well as entrepreneurs via programs like A New Front Door for Immigrant Entrepreneurs , the words at the top and the actions in the field are completely disconnected. It seems to be getting worse, not better, which just sucks.

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