Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

This morphed into the Startup Visa Movement and I’ve written extensively about it over the past three years on my blog in the Startup Visa category. A mad scramble among some of the Boston startup community leaders, led by Katie Rae at TechStars, resulted in this entrepreneur “only” being jailed for a few days.

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MAY 21, 2012

I judged Lean Startup Machine Boulder yesterday afternoon. I’m a huge Eric Ries / Lean Startup fan and believe that the methodology can be quickly taught. It’s not a coding / hacking weekend – it’s an applied process of the Lean Startup Methodology.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2012

I’m starting to integrate a bunch of new stuff into the Startup Revolution site now that I’ve finished book #2: Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur. I’m looking for someone with web design chops who has experience with WordPress to work with me on some stuff.

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JUNE 13, 2017

As you may know, over breakfast in 2015 Jeff Bussgang and I launched Global EIR with the hope of advancing the startup visa effort on a local and state level after it stalled in Congress. Others came to turn a great idea into a startup and ultimately into a world-changing company.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2013

Quick Left is hosting a Startup Life event with me and Amy on April 25th at their office in Boulder. Amy and I have decided to do a number of smaller events around Startup Life as we travel around the world together in 2013. We know we’ll be in New York, Boston, Dallas, San Diego, Iceland, and London this year.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2014

I lived in the Boston-area for twelve years (Cambridge for four years and Boston for eight years. Even though I often say that was 11 years and 364 days too many for my “non-big city, non-east coast” personality, Boston still has a sweet spot in my heart. I’m not a sports fan but I always root for the Red Sox.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2013

On Digital Sabbath #5, I read Tech and the City: The Making of New York’s Startup Community. We had a fun hour long talk with Q&A, a lot of it about Startup Communities. If you are involved in the New York startup community, this is a must read book. It was excellent. I experience this all the time in New York.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2021

Enter Cleantech Open, the world’s largest and oldest cleantech accelerator for cleantech, climate tech, and sustainability startups. Through Cleantech Open, startups can build their entrepreneurship skills and professional networks, access expert mentorship, and connect with potential investors, partners, and customers.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2013

Richard Florida continues to write amazing stuff about Startup Communities in The Atlantic Online. For a long time I’ve suggested that an interesting measure of entrepreneurial density would be ((entrepreneurs + employees of startups) / total population). Was Cambridge separated from Boston? Of course not.

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MARCH 26, 2010

Andrew Hyde has decided to organize another Boulder Startup Week on May 4 – 8, 2010. TechStars: Funding Your Startup. Why to Apply for TechStars Boston 2010 Today. Tags: Boulder startup week. The Boulder New Tech Meetup and Ignite Boulder is also happening that week. It’s free – register now and mark it on Plancast.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I still remember the first time I met Len, sitting in a restaurant in downtown Boston, wondering to myself “who is this guy and what does he want?” Len Fassler is one of the most amazing people I’ve had the honor of knowing. Len and his partner Jerry Poch bought my first company in 1993.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Jay Batson , a long-time Techstars Boston mentor, nudged me several times to finish this up. So, he did it for me, with the added motivation of getting it up prior to the kickoff to this year’s Boston program. Jay has embraced this responsibility for every Boston cohort since then. I kept saying “I’ll get to it” but never did.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Scott Kirsner had a fun article in Boston.com today titled The Red Line Tour of Innovation in Boston. One fall, after Feld Technologies had moved to Boston, we hired a recent graduate from Brown named Jonathan Lutes. Tags: Entrepreneurship adp boston cambridge. While interviewing him I asked what he had done over the summer.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. We knew that some places, like NYC, Boston, and Seattle, where we already had deep networks, would be common places for us to invest.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2015

. “Arkansas: Brad Feld has bounced around a lot: born in Arkansas, raised in Dallas, then lived in Boston for over a decade before moving to Boulder, Colorado. He’s most known for founding Foundry Group, a prominent venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investment, but also co-founded startup accelerator Techstars.”

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FEBRUARY 6, 2016

I’m finally home after three solid weeks on the road which included Austin, Dallas, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. In the last five years, there has been an explosion of startup activity in LA that continues to be exciting as the startup community grows and evolves.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

For now, the title is “ Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City.” TechStars Impact on Boston. I’m deep into writing my latest book. ” I’m open to different titles – if you’ve got ideas just put them in the comments. Keys of Leadership Culture. Mentor Driven.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 26, 2012

Among other things we talked about the startup ecosystem in and around MIT and the evolution of Boston as a region. The comments in my post from yesterday titled I’m in Cambridge, Not Boston were great and stimulated additional thinking on this topic, as did Joost’s experience here over the past 20 years.

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APRIL 10, 2020

When Amy and I had life dinner on March 1st, we were both tired after a three-week trip to Boston, Miami, and Atlanta. As we discussed the potential impact of Covid, we talked about the current state of things in the US. ” Prescient, but not really what we meant.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2013

I also love the culture – I wrote about it in my post The Monastic Startup. I had full days of meetings, including two Startup Communities related events – one with the World Bank and one with a Congressional Caucus on Innovation. So I decided to punt on going to DC and stay in Boston.

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APRIL 18, 2017

I’m an enormous fan of Eric Ries and The Lean Startup. His, and Steve Blank’s, thinking and writing changed how we approach startups. I knew the exact time I had to walk out the door of my office to walk to South Station (in Boston) to get in a cab to go to the Fedex depot at Logan Airport to make the FedEx cutoff.

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MARCH 30, 2011

If you live in the Boston area, also check out Start Up Rise Up. You can meet other Boston startups and maybe win some cash for your idea. Who knows, maybe the winner will apply for TechStars Boston ? That’s a little over $3 a month for the first year. Pretty hard to beat.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This is a city-based horizontal accelerator similar to the ones we have in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, Austin, New York City, London and Berlin. I almost grew up in Kansas City, as the two cities my parents looked at when moving from Boston were Kansas City and Dallas (they chose Dallas.) I have a long history with Kansas City.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 20, 2012

It’s been a refreshing resource for a bunch of startup communities, including Boston (where it started) and Seattle. Come join us, sign up as a founding sponsor , and help get a great new resource covering the activity in our startup community. I’ve been a huge fan of Xconomy since its debut several years ago.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

While we’ve figured out pieces of it, we are now taking it up a level by trying to figure out the longer term arc around multi-year programs, along with additional programs linked to entrepreneurship, but not necessarily for entrepreneurs, such as Boston Startup School.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 12, 2013

While a plethora of entrepreneurship books have come out recently, including the ones I’ve written in the Startup Revolution series , there hasn’t yet been the equivalent of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for entrepreneurship. He’s got a book out called Zen Entrepreneurship: Walking the Path of the Career Warrior.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2013

I talk more about this and lots of other topics in my recent book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. . We ran the second program in 2008, expanded to Boston in 2009, and adopted a funding strategy for each local program which we continue to use to this day.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2012

It was the first time I discovered my peer group and it led to a long-term involved in Young Entrepreneurs Organization (where I founded the Boston and Colorado chapters) and planted deep seeds for my understanding of the power of mentorship. I’ve been a huge fan of Verne’s since the day I met him in 1990.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

I’ve committed to being one of the 14 in 2014 that run the Boston Marathon – there’s a gang of well known tech entrepreneurs and investors that are doing this together as part of a big fundraiser. Startup Communities amante Boulder cookie monster halloween marathon Random Day'

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 5, 2017

In the fall of 2007, my friend Phil Weiser, Executive Director of CU Boulder’s Silicon Flatirons Center, convened 25 leaders from CU Boulder and the Boulder / Denver startup community. I got involved as a judge in 1993 and was active through 1997 with occasional visits to the finals in subsequent years when I was around Boston.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

When we started TechStars in 2006, one of our premises was to help build a strong startup community in Boulder. I also believe that the best way to accelerate core technologies like what Nike has worked on is to build significant startup communities around their core products and technologies. I look forward to meeting you!

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

If we fund an early stage startup company today and it’s hugely successful, it’ll be coming into its own in 2025. I was in Boston at the end of May and had three separate experiences in one day. The second was Techstars Boston Demo Day, showcasing 14 brand new companies. Ponder that for a moment.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 29, 2013

Boulder/Denver joins the other six regions – Boston, Detroit, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle – and is now part of the broad and expanding coverage that Xconomy is providing on business, life sciences, and technology news. This is another effort to that end.

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APRIL 14, 2012

At the dinner I gave a short talk on Startup Communities and then answered some questions. The first question was “what do I think of the phrase ‘Silicon Beach’ for the LA startup community.” If you are going to create a startup community, build your own identity. I hate Silicon Whatever. LA is huge.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

It provides an outlet for mentors to engage in their local startup communities and keep a pulse on emerging technologies. Our first two pilot funds will be the 2017 city programs in Austin and Boston, launching on January 23rd. Serving as a mentor is intrinsically rewarding on multiple levels. And it’s fun.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

We were living in Boston at the time. At some point Amy and I realized we could live anywhere and we knew that Boston wasn’t home. I hope to finish the final draft of my next book, Startup Opportunities (co-authored with Sean Wise), while I’m up here. I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993.

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