Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2012

Over the past decade, I’ve developed a very close friendship and work collaboration with Phil Weiser. He’s also hiring two positions – both of which report to him. Phil is now the Dean of the CU Law School. Simply put, he’s awesome.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. I developed a simple mantra: “The only person I have to cheat is myself.” The Only Person I Have to Cheat is Myself.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

They also give providers and developers an easy way to distribute, sell, and market cloud services. The post AppDirect Is Hiring After Closing a $50 Million Financing appeared first on Feld Thoughts. That last part is particularly interesting from our perspective. Investments appdirect Jobs standing cloud'

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2016

Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Let’s focus on “ recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company.” His last job was VP Engineering on top of a division representing 25% of the development resources of a very large company, reporting up to the division president.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2010

If you are a senior Java developer anywhere in the US and are interested in moving to Boulder, I’d like to hear from you. There was a nice article in Bloomberg Businessweek last week about Why Boulder Is America’s Best Town for Startups.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s tons of information, organized well, in tight, bite-sized chunks. For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Standing Cloud , one of the Boulder-based companies we seed funded last year, is hiring a Java Developer. They are a provider of software and services that facilitate deployment and management of application software, using on-demand cloud servers from providers such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, and others.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. Oh, and they are hiring as fast as they can find great people ; across the spectrum (business, sales, & engineering). At this point, the other co-founder, Jud Valeski, stepped up to be the CEO.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

As entrepreneurs in Colorado, we are writing because the Protect IP Act, now moving through the Senate (along with its House counterpart), poses a significant risk to the innovation, entrepreneurship, and job creation that has characterized the Internet’s development.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

They collect massive amounts of money for their investors, and funnel much of it into buying and developing more patents. When I talked to a headhunter recently, in the midst of the worst market for legal jobs ever, she told me that the one employer who was always hiring people with experience in patents was IV.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

JumpCloud , one of the fastest growing companies in Colorado, is looking for awesome Developers, QA engineers, DevOps admins, and Customer Success Engineers. Over the next year, they are planning to hire 50 people for the engineering team and about 70 across the entire company.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

And larger law firms are significantly cutting back on their entry-level hiring. The upside of today’s New Normal is that law schools have the opportunity to develop a new generation of lawyers who are more purposeful than ever before about how to develop and navigate their careers. Challenge employers on entry-level hiring.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2011

My friends at Orbotix are hiring. If yes, then this is you! - PHP Developer Internship : This paid internship is for someone fluent in PHP development who can help manage the Orbotix web sites. - Marketing Internship : This paid internship is for someone who will be working with our marketing manager to promote Sphero.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Throughout the summer, interns will work during the day at the company that hires them; in the evenings, they will attend various dinners, events, and workshops.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

We hired, then fired, a bunch of part time people and then just worked together – the two of us – for the next 18 months until we hired our first employee (Shawn Broderick). This wasn’t uncommon – our love and respect included plenty of “moments” as we were both developing into real adults.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2011

Many of the companies I’m an investor in are hiring a lot of people right now. I’ve interviewed and hired a lot of people over the year and I’ve developed my own perspective and philosophy on the best way to do this. For a current view, take a look at the Foundry Group jobs page.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2012

This past summer, I worked with David Cohen, Tom Chickoore and the great people at TechStars to develop and organize a startup boot camp for Veterans. For almost every startup, hiring a Veteran will add to the collective diversity of perspective and experience. Talk about hiring Veterans with your co-founders and employees.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 1, 2012

Who – The A Method For Hiring : I wasn’t looking forward to this book – I find books like this excruciating to read and generally hit “skim” by about page 30. I found this one to be really good – it drew me and and ended up being a very practical guide to how to hire great people.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 25, 2015

This is exacerbated by design constraints developed for the city in the 1960s and 1970s. ” This project resulted in us bringing Becky Boone , last year’s fellow with the City of Denver, to Boulder to spend seven months working with the city. Today, Boulder has a population of about 100,000 and about 100,000 jobs.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

At Foundry Group, we are hiring a Head of Network. SOME INITIAL THOUGHTS ON THE DETAILS OF THE POSITION We’ve put a lot of thought into the development of our network and need help taking it into the future. The post Come Join Us at Foundry Group: Hiring a Head of Network appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2012

years of product development and varying business approaches, Gnip found their magic moment about a year and half ago. They are hiring ! My friend Chris Moody , President/COO at Gnip , refers to this as the execution phase of a business and there is no better example of execution in our current portfolio than the team at Gnip.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 17, 2015

Every decision from customer service to product development to whom they hire and fire is filtered through the lens of CUJ. It’s not simply a slogan or contrived corporate branding. It’s something they do. For everyone at their company, CUJ is a way of life.

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