Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

My fourth book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City comes out at the end of the month. I’m running a marathon in Utah (St. Foundry Group adds $225M to its venture capital pool. The Startup Revolution has begun. George), Vermont (Burlington), and Michigan (Detroit) in October.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Bryce Dot VC

DECEMBER 12, 2012

So, I’ve decided to break one of Brad’s golden rules of startup communities and start a new series for local founders and entrepreneurs I’m calling Sessions @ The Leonardo. . Fortunately, the wonderful team at The Leonardo has volunteered their support for this little experiment and I’m grateful to them for that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I’m actually just a Mormon dad who has five kids and lives in Salt Lake City Utah, not the Bay Area. These notions of an independent ethos don’t map that well to what we know about venture capital, which is a very staged and formulaic way of building a company. But there is a bit of a trap in venture capital.

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Bryce Dot VC

JUNE 28, 2014

At some point in these meetings, the person I’m speaking to tends to frustratingly say something along the lines of “we need a startup community here in Utah” or “why don’t we have more of a startup community here in Utah”? Is there really a lack of community here? If so, why?

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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. Related posts: Venture Capital in the Rockies. About VCIR. More information can be found at.

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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. More information can be found at www.vcirwinter.com.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

interview (3 January 2014), venture capital guru Marc Andreesen, who insists that there is no tech bubble, points out why companies like these survive and grow while others don’t. Utah Mining and Construction are long gone. Beale Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching. Folsom Street and Beale Street by Leo vanMunching.

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