Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 14, 2020

When the Federal tax laws were changed in 2018 to eliminate the deductibility of state income tax, I made the assertion, in the context of Startup Communities, that this would cause movement of people and companies across state lines, as this now created another layer of competitive advantage for states with no income tax.

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MAY 26, 2015

So this weekend was about startup communities with a bonus book on the startup visa tossed in for good measure. The first was The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance. ” Anyone interested in Silicon Valley, what it means, and how it came together should read this book carefully from cover to cover.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Last week I posted an article on peHUB titled How to Create a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. While I’ve spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley — both as an angel and venture capital investor — I’ve never lived there. The first was to energize the early stage software/Internet entrepreneurial community in Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

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. Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber : While I knew some of the story, I didn’t know a lot of the backstory.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

Her book, Regional Advantage , had a huge impact from on my thinking around Startup Communities. It’s awesome – anyone that cares about how entrepreneurial communities work must read this. If you are interested in startup communities, I hope you will listen to this podcast.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 6, 2010

You have to do things that engage the entire entrepreneurial community (e.g. You have to continually get new first time entrepreneurs into the entrepreneurial community. You have to continually get new first time entrepreneurs into the entrepreneurial community. TechStars ).

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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. My argument is, and has never been, against Silicon Valley, but rather for the rest of the planet.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Kobe’s quote in the press release kind of says it all: “For years, Black entrepreneurs have been told that Silicon Valley is a meritocracy, but at the same time most haven’t had access to the top networks, the warm introductions, and the mentorship that underpin lasting success in tech.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

For now, the title is “ Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City.” If you are a leader in your entrepreneurial community and have something you want to add , email me 500 – 1000 words. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Welcome Everyone Into The Entrepreneurial Community.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2013

Richard Florida continues to write amazing stuff about Startup Communities in The Atlantic Online. High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley. The Connection Between Venture Capital and Diverse, Dense Communities. Startup Communities Boulder per capita startup communities the atlantic Venture Capital zip code'

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday. Now he is slated to enter Booth at the University of Chicago in the fall.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

On Wednesday and Thursday I spent two awesome days with my long time friend Martin Babinec (the founder of Trinet), his partner at Upstate Venture Connect – Nasir Ali – and about 1000 members of the Upstate New York entrepreneurial community. Martin and I first met around 1991 when we were both building our first companies.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 18, 2010

Regional Advantage : A+: I’ve read bits of Annalee Saxenian’s seminal book about the differences between the evolution of Silicon Valley and Route 128, spent a tiny bit of time with Annalee at a Silicon Flatiron event, and have thought hard about this, but I had actually never read her book.

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Feld Thoughts

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. The Seattle startup community is called Seattle.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

I did my riff on Startup Communities and followed it up with a short Q&A on issues specific to Michigan’s entrepreneurial scene. The line I heard in the context of startup communities was “ the collision of the tucked and the untucked.” Books startup communities thiel zero to one' It should be fun.

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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. Uncanny Valley: A Memoir : Loved it. This book nourished my inner Silicon Valley cynic. The Heap: A Novel : This one ended up on my Kindle because of my weekly perusal of the NY Times Book Review. Go get it right now.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

While I’m fortunate to have this blog, and other writing opportunities as a platform to give voice to these stories, I also realize that to really have a meaningful impact, we need the startup community to be involved in government. Ultimately, we’re not just Silicon Valley, or Boulder., That’s where Engine Advocacy comes in.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

Urban Airship, Tello and the Power of Community. Urban Airship, diversifying technologically and geographically, buys Silicon Valley startup Tello. I rarely walk out of a meeting when I’m not getting anything out of it. I’m going to start paying more attention to this one. Related articles.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 7, 2014

The community has really rallied together to make this happen – Spark’s founders, a set of students and alumni who buy into the concept of “ doertocracy ,” have the support and involvement of both on-campus and off-campus organizations. Every Friday, Spark will hold its flagship event, Plugin.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

It gets to the heart of how startup communities are developed and I’d love to have you join me at it. That Boulder was number one was interesting, but what’s more exciting is that there are so many emergent startup communities around the United States that it’s now worth ranking them. in terms of tech-startup density.

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OCTOBER 13, 2013

Let’s rally the entrepreneurial community together and raise some money for those in need. Existing sponsor list includes KKO, Silicon Valley Bank, and Goldman Sachs. I’ll be there to support the cause and would love for you to join me. More sponsors are welcome – a restaurant sponsor would be great.

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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.” I hate Silicon Whatever. The rallying cry was “we are going to be the next Silicon Valley.”

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

When we started TechStars in 2006, one of our premises was to help build a strong startup community in Boulder. will begin in March of 2013 and conclude in June with two investor demo days; one in Portland and one in Silicon Valley. Based in Portland, the program is just a short drive away from Nike World Headquarters.

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MARCH 3, 2014

If you don’t have a copy, our friends at Silicon Valley Bank have sponsored one for each of you. I probably gave my talk about Startup Communities 20 times before I hit my stride. If you’ve got a copy, bring it and I’ll sign it. The feedback that I got along the way was extremely helpful.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

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. Boulder is comparatively not well situated to have large scale immigration ties a la Silicon Valley or New York.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

The first came out of a set of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who said something like “CES is irrelevant – no one important is there and nothing interesting gets launched.” There were two memes going around that I heard about CES earlier this week. I had a death defying run on the Las Vegas strip.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

I’m also giving a lot of talks around the world, especially on Startup Communities , so rather than travel and burn a day (or more), I’m doing 30 minute videoconferencing things remotely. I’ve tried to aggressively shift to video conferencing instead of audio conferencing for anything longer than a 15 minute call.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Tonight, after hanging out at the TechStars Boston Mentor evening and program kickoff, I got into a long discussion with a Bill Warner and Ken Zolot about Cambridge, Boston, and startup communities. I remember when the Boston VC community moved from downtown Boston to Waltham.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

But when a mysterious woman in colorful tights and combat boots begins following her, Plum falls down a rabbit hole into the world of Calliope House — an underground community of women who reject society’s rules — and is forced to confront the real costs of becoming “beautiful.”

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Citizens and businesses would be wise to scrutinize this investment not just because of the millions that are being spent now, but more importantly because of the serious impact that potentially higher electricity prices could have on this community in the coming years.

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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. Silicon Valley Bank is a close partner to me and my partners at Foundry Group here in the US and I’m excited to work with them in Canada as well. Register here.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

He moved his family back to his home town of Little Falls NY in 1999 to be closer to his parents (and his kids grandparents) and then commuted to Silicon Valley for 11 years while running TriNet. He engaged deeply in his startup community and was one of the leaders.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The depth of talent and overall strength of our tech community here is superb. It turns out that makes it a great place to start a community-based tech nonprofit startup, too. will be utilizing Scala/Lift – with full support of the Lift community and Dave Pollak, it’s creator. Of note to developers, v2.0

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JULY 28, 2014

If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing. ” And if you’re curious, it wasn’t too long ago that Silicon Valley was also dying.

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MAY 4, 2018

Our friend, Kimbal Musk, who according the the New York Times Wants to Feed America, Silicon Valley-Style is based in Boulder (and, ahem, not Silicon Valley.). I’m also excited about the startup activity outside of Boulder/Denver.

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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. If you know me, you know that it think that it is tragic to label things Silicon Blah. New York isn’t Silicon Alley. ” There is a lot of rhyming going on. It’s New York.

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