Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. Angel investors, venture capital firms, accelerators, and (maybe) the newer equity crowdfunding will look to see if you have previous experience in startups. That’s the tricky part.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2018

As many of you know, my partner Jason is from Detroit. In case you don’t know about Jason, prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Jason was a co-founder of SRS Acquiom and a Managing Director and General Counsel for Mobius Venture Capital. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Law School. The Motor City.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

My partners and I, especially Jason Mendelson, have been very involved with Silicon Flatirons over the past decade. In addition to leading the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic that aids the startup community, Brad co-teaches a venture capital course at Colorado Law, along with Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Announcing the Greater Colorado Venture Fund ! I am proud to share that the Colorado Venture Capital Authority (VCA), in conjunction with the Office of Economic Growth and International Trade (OEDIT), has selected the Greater Colorado Venture Fund to steward the state’s rural venture capital allocation.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. That’s the order of states with the greatest dollar value of seed and early stage investment according to a PWC MoneyTree study that my partner Jason blogged about today. 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 22, 2010

And while I’m going to argue (forcefully) here that neither my partners nor I either believe this to be true or even wish for that kind of market power, I should acknowledge that I’ve heard this before. Nine of them are based in Colorado (all of those in Boulder).

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VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. That’s the order of states with the greatest dollar value of seed and early stage investment according to a PWC MoneyTree study that my partner Jason blogged about today. 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

The two most notable are the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado and the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars. King of Capital was a really useful book to read on a number of levels. While 2011 is only eight years ago, it’s a lifetime in the world of finance, private equity, venture capital, and business.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

This LP is also a long time investor in Union Square Ventures and was one of the first people Fred introduced us to when we started raising the first Foundry Group fund in 2007. The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The VCIR Winter 2010 conference will be held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, February 23-25, showcasing early-growth companies from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. TopSchool, Inc. Clementine Arts markets the first full line of natural art supplies for children.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Denver, CO, February 23, 2010 – The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association today unveiled its final lineup of growth companies at the 27 th annual Venture Capital in the Rockies (VCIR) 2010 Winter conference. Additional Colorado Representatives. TopSchool, Inc. About VCIR.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

As we head into 2016, we leave behind a year of robust trends for venture capital—or “VC”—funding. The Pacific Northwest had a great overall year for venture capital activity in 2015—even if you count the 59 percent dip in Q4. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

So – I decided to go down a website memory lane trip for Intensity Ventures (my personal investment company), SOFTBANK Technology Ventures (my first VC firm), and Flatiron Partners (Fred Wilson and Jerry Colonna’s first VC firm, which was an affiliate of SOFTBANK). You’ll note a few extra partners here.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Along with my partner Jason Mendelson and our friends Brad Bernthal (University of Colorado Law School) and Mike Platt (partner at Cooley LLP) we have launched a series of courses in conjunction with our portfolio company Sympoz on starting a company.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.” More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

The sheer magnitude of the problem makes it almost impossible for the SBA and its banking partners. Seth Levine is managing partner of the The Foundry Group, a $2.5 billion venture capital firm in Boulder, Colorado. In 2018 the SBA generated approximately $30 billion in loans.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

In addition to Stanford I also teach at Columbia, and at these research universities – Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, and others – they all now have an internal incubator, they have maker spaces, they have their own venture funds, they connect to the community, they connect to venture capital. It’s a big idea.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 7, 2018

Occasionally we’ll go to a resort in Colorado Springs (a two hour drive). Whoever is on the board is not allowed to speak – they have to listen as the other partners reviews the portfolio company. Close to Home : We try to avoid the offsite becoming a boondoggle. We keep it close to home and relatively modest.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Which is, in their quest for gold, assemble an awesome team of coaches, trainers, agents, nutritionists, sponsors, equipment partners, family, friends, and "moral teams" to enable and empower their peak performance. It just requires one simple thing that all Olympians do instinctively. One dimensionally. Business is no different.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Colorado and Massachusetts have similar programs. At HOF Capital , we are particularly interested in investing in companies with international roots. This is the first citywide program in the US that allows a city (New York) to retain and attract foreign entrepreneurs by offering access to uncapped H1B visas.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2012

We’ve made a conscious decision as a firm never to grow – either number of partners or size of fund – so we are limited to the number of new investments we can make a year based on our approach. First, some background. This translates into about a dozen new investments a year plus or minus a few.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The best answer for any other local economy is to just make the most of who you are, embrace your own identity, partner with Silicon Valley. Take Boulder, Colorado as a model, they’ve successfully created their own very strong economy for startups. And don’t use the word “silicon” in your name.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.) When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable. Thanks to my wife for being a great partner. Long vacations. We would take at least a 3-week vacation every summer.

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