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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

There was a huge kerfluffle over the weekend about racism in Silicon Valley which tried to end when Michael Arrington wrote a post titled Oh Shit, I’m A Racist. I’ve seen it many times, including in Silicon Valley. And I’m sure there will be more posts, including this one.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

Our experience with TechStars – starting in Boulder, but expanding to Boston, Seattle, and New York – helped us understand not just TechStars’ role and impact on a startup community, but what drives startup communities over the long term. Based in Portland, the program is just a short drive away from Nike World Headquarters.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

The first came out of a set of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who said something like “CES is irrelevant – no one important is there and nothing interesting gets launched.” This afternoon I board a plane to Boston and bid CES 2012 farewell. But I’ll be back again next year.

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APRIL 14, 2012

Silicon Alley, Silicon Mountain, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Slopes, Silicon Gulch, Silicon Bayou, and on, and on, and on. The rallying cry was “we are going to be the next Silicon Valley.” Sure, you’ve got Cambridge, Boston, Waltham, and Hopkinton. ” Whatever.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Today it is just as likely to be someone born in Beijing or Jaipur as it is to be someone from Boston or Boulder. In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Who will create tomorrow’s Twitter, Facebook, or Google? Colorado is home to many.

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DECEMBER 18, 2011

TechStars Impact on Boston. We Need To Be Like Silicon Valley. Keys of Leadership Culture. Mentor Driven. Non Zero Sum Game. Porous Boundaries. The Power of Accelerators. The Story of TechStars in Boulder. TechStars Impact on New York. How Accelerators Are Different Than Incubators. Why Incubators Don’t Work. Resources.

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JULY 28, 2014

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC.

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MAY 17, 2015

I’m happy to do an interview with WGBH anytime they call given the number of hours of my life I spent listening to them during my twelve years living in Boston. Before I left I did 15 minute interview on WGBH’s Innovation Hub program. The post Build Your Life Where You Want To Live appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

This is especially true for companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York. It seems pretty clear that a very large, single location company in Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle, and several other cities (e.g. LA, Boston) is getting much more challenging.

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APRIL 6, 2012

” If you have 12 events on your list and none of them are outside of Silicon Valley — well, maybe take a look at something in New York, or Boston. What’s the reputation? Second, give yourself some geographic “spread.”

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