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AUGUST 3, 2011

Public engagement between entrepreneur community and USCIS to inform new training of USCIS adjudicators. A number of colleagues throughout the entrepreneurial community (entrepreneurs, angels, VCs) joined in on the effort as it became a formal grass-roots movement, resulting in several bills being drafted in Congress in 2010 and then 2011.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If you are a Colorado entrepreneur and want to be signed on to this letter, please either email me or put your name, company name, and title in the comments. I’ve tried to make this letter substantive around the issues so the Senators understand the fundamental issues with the bills.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Daniel Jackson interviewed a number of people in the MIT community (students, professors, and staff) around their experience with depression, anxiety, and mental health issues. Many of Gilder’s predictions and prognostications were correct, even if the companies he named as the leaders couldn’t pull them off.

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MAY 28, 2015

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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JUNE 28, 2016

I’ve had a number of meetings over the years with the Small Business Administration (SBA) whose name says it all. If you disagree with any, or have any to add, please toss them in the comments as I evolve this as a list of “ways government can help startup communities.” They follow.

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MAY 29, 2020

More importantly (and thankfully), several tech leaders motivated by Harper Reed recognized that the tech community that began talking about “contact tracing” in April was creating massive confusion given the long history of contact tracing. ” But, this wasn’t really contact tracing at all and needed a different name.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

grocery stores) rather than community meeting spaces (e.g. I’m trying to decide if I like the name Starmazon better. Starbucks has one thing Amazon doesn’t have – over 30,000 physical locations. Sure, Amazon owns Whole Foods, which has about 350 physical locations, but they are large food distribution facilities (e.g.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Conover didn’t just observe – he became part of the community. The names of the restaurants are different, but the feel of the town and surrounding area is the same. He eventually bought some land and made it habitable for him. The texture of his writing is beautiful. The characters are fascinating.

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JULY 19, 2016

For a long time I’ve ranted against naming your startup community “Silicon Whatever.” ” Instead, I believe every startup community already has a name. The Boulder startup community is called Boulder. The LA startup community is called LA. You get the idea. You get the idea.

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AUGUST 30, 2013

Powerful startup communities start at the neighborhood level. This is one of the key parts of my theory around Startup Communities. You’ll note that we have deliberately named things like The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) with “Colorado” in their name to be inclusive of all entrepreneurs in the state.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

I’m participating in an event at CU Boulder (sponsored by Silicon Flatirons) on 10/18/18 called Community, Creativity, and #GiveFirst. GiveFirst: A New Philosophy for Business in The Era of Entrepreneurship is the name of an upcoming book of mine. It’s also the mantra of Techstars.

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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 should be LA.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

A 500 story tall building collapses in the desert and a community develops around it to excavate it. I particularly enjoyed how the author called people and companies out without naming them. The Heap: A Novel : This one ended up on my Kindle because of my weekly perusal of the NY Times Book Review. The premise intrigued me.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

Brad and I – in addition to sharing a first name – are close friends. We were talking about the recent amazing Techstars Demo Day that we had just had in Boulder, and Brad – in a professorial tone – started hypothesizing about the importance of Techstars in the Boulder startup community.

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APRIL 19, 2017

For a while, the only name on the list was Lindel’s. It took us several years to get our mind around adding someone, but once we did, we added a few more names to the list. We’ve known Chris since 2007 and worked extremely closely with him when he was the CEO of Gnip and well as a leader in the Boulder Startup Community.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

This is the sixth TechStars program in Boulder and I’m just blown away by the entrepreneurs, their companies, the mentors, the investors, and the Boulder community. TechStars Boulder Demo Day was today and all I can say is WOW!

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JANUARY 30, 2011

until I was asked to keynote at the annual meeting which I did a few weeks ago where I talked about “entrepreneurial communities and why Boulder is such an awesome one.&# don’t really understand the actual business economics of having a vibrant entrepreneurial community in their downtown.

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OCTOBER 13, 2013

Let’s rally the entrepreneurial community together and raise some money for those in need. Cliff and the Mocavo gang are opening a one-night-only bar in downtown Boulder in the name of charity. I’ll be there to support the cause and would love for you to join me.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Coloradans and the high-tech community also have raised related concerns about an overbroad definition of affected websites (sweeping in legitimate companies as well as foreign rogue website operators), unfunded mandates, and legal risk and uncertainty – not only for lawful websites but for consumers.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

The result has been the growth of a community that gathers every year at the Omni Interlocken for two days plus of really amazing ideas, relationship building, and conversations. Defrag is a unique experience, and if you’re local to Colorado, it brings some of the most influential names in tech into your backyard.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Each of the organizations is an integral part of their startup community. They help out with community engagement, mentorship, and/or capital. Our Naming Sponsor QuickBooks is dedicated to getting new, high-growth businesses off the ground. March 27th: Montreal with Real Ventures + portfolio. Register here.

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APRIL 19, 2012

I first thought of raving fans when I read Ken Blanchard’s book by the same name in 1993 when I was CEO of Feld Technologies (my first company). Craftsy is a community of people who love to make things - knitters, quilters, sewers, jewelers. The message rang true for me then and still does today.

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JANUARY 29, 2017

David Cohen and I spent the week there together to learn more about the various startup communities in Australia, to spend some time with the team that is leading Techstars Defence in Adelaide , and to watch an amazing Federer / Wawrinka semi-final. I arrived home from Australia yesterday. This is not ok.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It’s not lost on me that the name of the show appears to be “end scorpion” so either someone in Hollywood is being too cute for their own good or they are clueless about HTML. My parents got me into a community college course on programming and I was the precocious 12 year old in the class.

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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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AUGUST 13, 2012

Write a blog post about it and name the feature after the person. This will encourage them to give you more feedback, use your product more, and be part of your extended early community of fans. Fix the bug and then tell the person who reported it that you did and thank them for pointing it out.

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APRIL 9, 2015

.” We decided to use the word “mentor” to describe the relationship between the participants in the Boulder startup community who were working with the founders and companies that went through Techstars. We had our first program in Boulder in 2007 and had about 50 mentors. Either Is Fine appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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APRIL 17, 2015

If you want a quick taste, go read today’s Fred Wilson’s blog post Coming Up With A Better Name For NYC’s Tech Community. And Fred has been ranting about this since at least 2008 when he made a public plea to bury the name Silicon Alley. New York isn’t Silicon Alley. It’s New York. ” Whatever.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Our marketplace theme posits that technology can be the answer to galvanize the two communities of wedding vendors and planning couples, and create a highly attractive business. And, if you have a good name for our pending Arts, Crafts, Design, and Marriage theme, leave it in the comments.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Would it be weird if I sold sponsorship rights to my first name? And, if you are interested in sponsoring my first name, I’m open to offers and suggestions. “Dominos Feld” anyone? Or maybe “Amazon Feld.” I’m considering taking all the labels off of everything I own.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

Like religious conflict, the emotion ran higher than it needed to and the ad-hominem attacks drove some great people away from engaging with the community around the protocol. The original creators of the protocol had great vision, but the history and evolution of RSS were filled with challenges and controversy. Time passed.

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

You need to know the host names of your service, the ports, encryption values, etc. If the research community didn’t raise the alarm, the details of Intro’s integration wouldn’t have hit the radar. If they’re not, the Internet community will do it for you. Classic Man in the Middle. It isn’t easy.

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JUNE 6, 2012

To name a few: the ever growing computing power (and corollaries in the fields of vision, audio, and sensors), the cost drop for parts and prototyping, the higher quality in mass manufacturing, the increasing effectiveness of the logistics involved as well as the other benefits coming from the digital space such as crowdfunding (e.g.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

David Cohen , who is relocating to NY for January to March of next year, and David Tisch (I’m encouraging him to change his name to just Tisch to save me the brain damage of “which David&# ) will be running the program.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Alcatel-Lucent signed on to be the Community Underwriter and Partner Sponsor of Gluecon 2011. But call it what you will, developers know that it’s not the name that counts, it’s the building of the application, and the underlying infrastructure that supports it.

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JULY 29, 2011

Through a series of conversations, Jane and Dick have come up with the idea to develop a social network tailored to the medical community. Oh, and you’ll notice that they don’t yet have a name for their company. Next week, we will address how Jane and Dick put proper accounting systems in place.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

” I didn’t know either of them personally, but they loomed large over the business community in Dallas where I grew up (from 1969 – 1983.) I riffed off a few current examples of famous entrepreneurs and reflected that when I was a kid, the only books available were biographies about guys with names like Iaccoca and Walton.

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