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Joint Statement by Colorado High-Tech Companies on COVID-19

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been involved with a number of leaders in the Colorado tech community since Wednesday morning as we’ve aggressively mobilized to address the Covid-19 crisis. This week, our companies stepped up efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 here in Colorado and beyond.

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Startups – Beware The Changing Palo Alto Investment Model

YoungUpstarts

Due to lowering capital costs, global competition that spans industries and continents, quicker market validations, and facilitated iteration, the nature of the investment game has changed. As it happens, in the last 30 years, available capital has tripled to stand at roughly 10 times global GDP. Expanding tech talent.

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Techstars is evolving and growing

David Cohen

The separately funded partner accelerator programs which operate in more than 30 locations worldwide are unchanged. So in 2024 we will still run more than 50 cohorts in 30+ locations globally and into the foreseeable future.

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Techstars Sustainability Accelerator / The Nature Conservancy – 2021 Applications Open

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I have been supporters of TNC for over 30 years and Amy serves on their global board of directors. The program has been running in Colorado supporting pre-seed to post-seed stage startups at the intersection of conservation and technology since 2018.

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Retail Reimagined: 9 Trends for the Future of Physical Retail

ConversionXL

The chatter of the “Retail Apocalypse” began long before the recent events of a global pandemic. Check out this example in my hometown of Colorado Springs. My go-to cycling studio in Colorado Springs sources their t-shirts from the printing shop next door. Image source ). That’s where Parkdale Pet Foods came in.

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Celebrate Governor Polis’s Birthday With Me

Feld Thoughts

On May 14th at 5:30pm, a group of us are going to have a virtual birthday party for Colorado Governor Jared Polis. I’m co-chairing the party with my wife Amy Batchelor, my partner Seth Levine, his wife Greeley Sachs, and our friends Mo and Jennifer Siegel. This year, it’s for the Colorado COVID Relief Fund.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%