Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2020

I was going to take a week off the grid next week, but I’ve got a bunch of podcasts and media recordings to do for my upcoming book The Startup Community Way. I also want to continue spending time in the new Startup Community community , which now has over 2,000 people in it and is growing and self-organizing at a rapid clip.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 10, 2020

Some of the organizations that have contributed so far : Anchor Point, AT&T, Baird Foundation, Bank of America, Bender West Foundation, Boettcher Foundation, Bohemian Foundation, BPx Energy, Buell Foundation, Caring for Colorado Foundation, Chambers Fund, Charles Schwab Foundation, Christy Sports, Cigna, Colorado Garden Show INC, Colorado Rockies (..)

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

The early literary reviews of The Circle were awesome while the reviews by people in the tech community were mixed to negative. We’ve somehow elevated social media metrics to the same level as money in the context of self-worth. I also have a giant literary crush on everything McSweeney’s.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2018

It also generated a few public ones, including the link to the article What is the problem with social media? Jordan asserts that the problem with social media can be broken down into four foundation problems. And I doubt I would have found it scanning my social media feeds. by Jordan Greenhall which was extraordinary.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

When the phrase “Startup Communities” started to become mainstream around 2012, I made the strong assertion that you could create a startup community in any city with at least 100,000 people. .” While Agent Smith was wrong, I don’t think I am. Or you can just call it San Francisco, Oakland, and the Peninsula.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2020

At some level, that’s not new, as the regular end of year media rhythm for as long as I can remember is a stream of famous people being asked their predictions for the next year. While in the book, we apply it to startup communities, I’ve internalized it across any complex system. “ But how?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 15, 2012

I’m glad that “Startup” is making its way into the style guides of the old media world. We had a similar conversation when Startup America Partnership was formed in 2011. After some back and forth we all got it right.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2014

At this conference, I heard of an effort to put together a new community site that would pitch a tent big enough for anyone interested in DevOps. This would be a place where technical folks could learn and communicate, where novices could find out more, and where business people could understand why and how DevOps matters.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2019

History is recorded and codified through the journalism, social media, and public policy, and tends to emphasize the voices of those already in the public eye. Even more damaging, the 60 Minutes piece incorrectly claimed that the number of women majoring in computer science has declined.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2012

This week I’ll be kicking off the second day of Big Boulder with a talk about how the Boulder startup community has come to be what it is today. To that end, they’ve brought together some of the biggest players from social media publishers including Facebook, Twitter, Klout, LinkedIn, StockTwits, Disqus, Tumblr and WordPress.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We’ve known and worked with both Elizabeth Kraus and Sue Heilbronner and deeply believe that each are committed to the “give before you get” ethos of our startup community in Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

I’m intensely proud of both the amazing startup community in Boulder as well as the many significant companies that have been – and are being – created in the little town of 100,000 people I call home. I sought to mimic his propensity to leverage social media. It’s great – and follows. ”, I pondered.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. In it, I examine how the hobbyist community is now building inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicle auto-pilot hardware and software.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2017

While I’m managed to stay off social media and read a lot more than watch TV, I massively underestimated the amount of transactional activity I’d have this summer. I’ve got two books in process: Give First and Startup Communities 2. I have completely failed at this.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2015

The media wants hero stories. The most glorious media story arc is rags to riches to rags with redemption back to riches. Great startup communities work the same way. I’m just one of the many leaders in the Boulder Startup Community. It also wants goat stories.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Yesterday I talked briefly about taking a break from media. When I wrote Startup Communities in 2012, I came up with a concept I call The Boulder Thesis. While I’ve learned a lot about startup communities over the past four years, my fundamental thesis has not changed.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 13, 2010

One of them is the powerful sense of community that exists. The tech community helped the non-profits on tech issues ranging from web design to social media help, database support to graphic design, and everything in-between. Boulder Community Computers presented by Eric Jackson. Boulder – I love you and miss you.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 27, 2013

If you play, make sure you also Like the book (if you order on Amazon), tweet out or Facebook the purchase, or do whatever other social media thing lights your fire. Or Win A Contest.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

build direct consumer relationships and like-minded communities. If a media company wants all of their largest brands to provide ebooks, each brand can build its own community and stay connected around ebooks. generate more revenue.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

March 26th: Toronto with Ryerson Digital Media Zone. Each of the organizations is an integral part of their startup community. They help out with community engagement, mentorship, and/or capital. Startup Canada has embraced the #GiveFirst mindset which has made Boulder a awesome startup community. Register here.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 16, 2015

While the business community in Boulder has contributed immeasurably to the vibrancy, charitable contribution base, economic development, and success of our community, there is a faction in Boulder that feels that our city should stop moving forward and instead should live in the past. The city that we love risks shutting its doors.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

build direct consumer relationships and like-minded communities. If a media company wants all of their largest brands to provide ebooks, each brand can build its own community and stay connected around ebooks. generate more revenue.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2010

I neglected however to mention their actual launch party, which is happening on April 7th from 7pm – 10pm at the MIT Media Lab. Tags: Entrepreneurial Communities Entrepreneurship event mit MITER. A few days ago I wrote about the launch of the MIT Entrepreneurship Review. Related posts: MIT Entrepreneurship Review.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2016

Rather than try to recreate Lucy Sanders (the CEO of NCWIT’s) message to the extended NCWIT community, I’m just republishing it below. This morning the entire NCWIT community has reason to celebrate. You can also follow updates from @whitehouse on Twitter, as well as the NCWIT social media channels.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2011

We viewed TechStars as an experiment in building companies, creating entrepreneurial communities, teaching people (and learning ourselves) about entrepreneurship and what’s required to create a high growth company, and working hard at perfecting a vision David had which we now call a “mentor-driven accelerator&#.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

This is a bidirectional experiment for us – we are helping Sympoz launch their new set of programs for startups and entrepreneurs while continuing to experiment with new forms of media around education on a topic we know well. My class, How To Light a Spark & Set Your Startup on Fire , is FREE for a limited time.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Reset Social Media: I completely and successfully reset my social media interactions. I had a few stretches where I wrote, but they weren’t sustained, and I didn’t really make any progress on either GiveFirst or Startup Communities 2. Writer : I’m going to write GiveFirst and Startup Communities 2 in v52.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 29, 2015

Kyle and his team went through Techstars Boulder in 2012 before moving back to Atlanta and being leaders in energizing the Atlanta startup community. After he posted it, he sent around the link to a few prominent people in the tech media. Interestingly, the media wrote more this time. ” I found that fascinating.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

When we went about setting up the NY program, we evolved our funding model to be as inclusive of the local VC / angel community as we could.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2013

Ideas_Matter: In response to this pop culture misconception, it has become popular in the startup community to say things like “execution is everything” and “ideas don’t matter”. I self published some content (my blog) and contributed to traditional print and online media.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 4, 2013

” Then there was the semi-expected self-referential “what is a journalist” articles such as Snowden’s leaks force media self-examination and Jeff Jarvis’ There are no journalists. Or perhaps his security could not guaranteed as effectively in Hong Kong as in Moscow, for the time being.” I love Jeff Jarvis.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2010

In addition to the story of the origins of Next Big Sound, there is a great discussion of TechStars and how it contributes to the Boulder entrepreneurial community. And on Monday I’m going to interview Greg Maffei and Michael Zeisser of Liberty Media for Entrepreneurs Unplugged. I never get tired of talking to entrepreneurs.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. It continues to be highly dependent on company, stage, and location. Beyond that, I have no real clue about the macro.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

” Adams, who has been involved in many of the meetings with the SBA and members of the investment community, said the greatest concerns voiced by investors and venture capitalists involved management team qualifications, investment track records and the addition of debt to the equation.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 10, 2012

We talked for a few minutes and the deep pleasure we were both feeling about being alive and part of the Boulder startup community was apparent. The mix of two totally different communities of people – a huge crowd of entrepreneurs, nerds, and techies in Shine crossed with an equally cruising bike crowd on the street.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

The only barrier is moving the developers abroad, but communities already growing in foreign countries could begin an exodus that our government seems to want to encourage. Courts may or may not understand the negatives of the patent system, but they’re the last place we should look for positive change. At minimum, U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2010

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