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Joint Statement by Colorado High-Tech Companies on COVID-19

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wherever possible we are strongly encouraging our vendors, service providers and partner businesses to take similar precautions. are moving all clients, visitors, and interviews to remote only meetings and not currently welcoming onsite visitors.

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Rally Gives $1.3 Million To The Boulder Community

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The picture to the left is of Ryan Martens, Rally’s founder and CTO, giving Josie Health, the CEO of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County , a check for $676,000. With a handful of others, including my partner Seth Levine and Cooley’s Mike Platt, Ryan helped created the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado.

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The CEO Whisperer

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It was “CTO Whisperer.” And for those who don’t know Jerry’s past, he was an extremely successful venture capitalist, founding Flatiron Partners with Fred Wilson in the mid-1990s before retiring from venture capital in the early 2000′s. ” As I’m getting deeper into meditation. As a mentor.

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That Was A Yes Or No Question

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My partner in my first company (Dave Jilk – now the CEO of Standing Cloud ) used to have an endearing way of dealing with this. CTO: “No&#. The person responded with a five minute explanation with a lot of details, all factually correct and contextually relevant, but at the end still didn’t answer the question.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

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We offered Ryan space to work out of our office which he did for a year or so as he got things up and running. At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures).

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Computer Science For All

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In addition to the growing library of NCWIT research-based resources for K-12 educators, families and girls, today NCWIT joins many other partners in making additional commitments to the #CSforAll initiative: NCWIT will equip 1,400 school counselors with tools for advising high school students on computer science education and career pathways.

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Do You Love Your Job?

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Since then, I’ve been a founder of a number of companies, a CTO of a public company that acquired my first company, an angel investor, a VC in two different firms that I helped start, and an LP in a bunch of VC firms. I was president of my first company (Feld Technologies). My partner Dave was vice president.

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