Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. while none of the non-Silicon Valley regional firms were long-term successful as regional firms. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

While the meme that the only place to build a company is in Silicon Valley has softened, there’s still a strong belief that the best place to be if you are a first time entrepreneur is Silicon Valley. 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

MARCH 7, 2014

The University of Colorado Boulder has been at the forefront of breeding and teaching entrepreneurship for many years now, but it has been missing a communal area where student entrepreneurs can work, gather, and live. If you’re a local entrepreneur, hold office hours during the weekly Friday event. Enter Spark Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

We would love to get your suggestions in the comments section for (1) the type of company that we should follow, and (2) the types of issues that the company might encounter (reminder: the goal is to illustrate common difficulties entrepreneurs face when it comes to understanding their financials).

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

As we come to the end of a particularly noisy and contentious election cycle, a thought echoes over and over in my mind – we need more entrepreneurs in Congress. Rather than play into the existing political infrastructure in New York, Martin did what any great entrepreneur does and started a new political party.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2013

High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley. For a long time I’ve suggested that an interesting measure of entrepreneurial density would be ((entrepreneurs + employees of startups) / total population). Richard took this notion a step further in his article High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley and actually did some math.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While I’ve spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley — both as an angel and venture capital investor — I’ve never lived there. While the firm I’m a partner in — Foundry Group — invests all over the United States, I regularly hear statements like, “The only place to start a tech company is in Silicon Valley.”.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Recently, Vivek wrote a post titled Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have a Gender Problem that resulted from a research project he did with the National Center for Women & Information Technology (I’m chairman). We simply need more technical women in the software industry.

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MAY 26, 2015

The first was The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance. This book was written in 1995 and published by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association so the updated subtitle should be “A One Hundred Year Renaissance – 20 Years Later.”

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 13, 2017

An adapted essay from Noam Cohen new book The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball showed up several weeks in the New York Times in the article Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend. When Web 2.0

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2015

It’s from Greg Sands post on TechCrunch titled The Real Silicon Valley. . If you are an entrepreneur, focus on the purpose. This is the best quote I’ve seen all week. Greg is a long time friend and co-investor. Along with my partners, we are all LPs in Greg’s fund Costanoa Ventures. Your purpose.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 31, 2018

I read Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup last week on my Q2 vacation. “Every entrepreneur and VC should read this book. Carreyrou just wrote a long warning for entrepreneurs and VCs.” In my post talking about the various books I read , I wrote the following about it.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The key points are: Don’t try to be Silicon Valley (it’s a special place – learn from it – but don’t try to emulate it). You have to continually get new first time entrepreneurs into the entrepreneurial community. You have to do things that engage the entire entrepreneurial community (e.g.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Thiel’s line was about uniforms and how his firm Founder’s Fund immediately rejects any entrepreneur who dresses in a suit and tie. I’ll let you guess which entrepreneur created several multi-billion dollar companies and which entrepreneur saw his extremely well funded company go bankrupt.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

The Entrepreneur’s Foundation of Colorado, the Living Green Network, and Mocavo are hosting a roofdeck bash on Halloween to benefit first-responder families and local farms devastated by the recent Boulder-area flood. Existing sponsor list includes KKO, Silicon Valley Bank, and Goldman Sachs.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

Case studies : Entrepreneurs and investors who are building startup communities around the world. The silos : Biotech, food, the Internet of things, clean energy, and all the other sectors providing fertile ground for entrepreneurs and investors. Big data : New tools for measuring growth, investments, and economic activity.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 21, 2015

If you need a dose of some of the language, just watch a few episodes of Silicon Valley. For entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley, and even plenty within Silicon Valley, the language seems forced. Many, like traction, are completely meaningless. I’ve noticed something recently. Uncomfortable.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 12, 2012

So CES has been a nice tradition for us where we get to travel together for a few days, hang out in nerd and gadget heaven, and spend time with a bunch of entrepreneurs we work with who are here. We always have two dinners – one with just entrepreneurs we work with and one that is a broader audience.

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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.). The post A Workshop for Colorado Food Entrepreneurs in Hotchkiss, CO – June 21 and 22 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2015

I know in the next five years my company will make a lot of money, but what I don’t know is how as a 23 year old entrepreneur to says yes to the right VC and no to all the magic dust.” “We were 0 for 21 with Silicon Valley VCs. Founders who are entranced with Silicon Valley VCs. I never got close.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

.” Dave Jilk (my first business partner and, at this point, other than my brother, my longest standing friendship) and I are working on a book project currently titled Nietzsche for Entrepreneurs. Dear Reid and Chris – please tell your editor that it is “startup”, not “start-up.”

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

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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APRIL 14, 2012

I was in LA for the past three days hanging out at Oblong , meeting with a bunch of entrepreneurs I know, then spending time at MuckerLabs , giving a talk at SCVStartup , and finishing up my trip with a half day at LaunchPad LA followed by a dinner that LaunchPad LA and Mark Suster put on. And dump the Silicon Blah. ” Whatever.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Today, immigrants represent more than 10 percent of Colorado’s entrepreneurs. Who will create tomorrow’s Twitter, Facebook, or Google? Colorado is home to many. The day will also include the release of new state-specific research.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Led By Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs. Silicon Flatirons. Entrepreneurs vs. Government. We Need To Be Like Silicon Valley. The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. Have A 20 Year Commitment. Welcome Everyone Into The Entrepreneurial Community.

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Feld Thoughts

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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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

While going through my daily reading this morning, I came across a bunch of posts talking about how the sky was falling, Silicon Valley was in turmoil, financing was drying up everywhere, and all the unicorns were doomed. When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2010

Create a cabinet position (Secretary Newco) that is focused on pushing through initiatives that help startups and unleash millions of entrepreneurs. Create a meaningful entrepreneurs visa. Staple a green card to the diploma of every foreign student who graduates from a US university. Cut capital gains taxes to 1% for startups.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2012

There’s are other entrepreneurs tucked around the city. One of my basic principles of startup communities is the need for what I call entrepreneurial population density (EPD) which I calculate as the total number of entrepreneurs and employees of entrepreneurial companies divided by the total number of all employees in a region.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

What started out in Silicon Valley as a new wave of angel investors has evolved into a belief that “VCs are lousy seed investors” and “no one needs a VC–just raise your money from super angels and go to town.”. The super angel is hyper-connected and works closely with the entrepreneurs he/she invests in.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

This question will not keep many of the entrepreneurs in Boulder up late at night. Boulder is comparatively not well situated to have large scale immigration ties a la Silicon Valley or New York. Looking forward – not back – is the Boulder startup community’s natural disposition.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

They range from “the sky is falling” to “the IPO market window is closing” to “there will be more stupid television shows about Silicon Valley” (I prefer Game of Thrones and 24, thank you very much.). If you are an entrepreneur, ignore the pontification and go build your business.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2014

While Boulder is currently building a strong reputation as an entrepreneurial ecosystem to rival Silicon Valley and is consistently voted among the top cities to live in the country , there is almost nothing more fundamental to quality of life and competitive business than affordable energy.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Young Entrepreneurs Organization, and the MIT Enterprise Forum. It was a four day retreat at MIT’s Endicott House for entrepreneurs who were under 40 who had founded companies doing over $1 million in revenue at the time. Martin and I first met around 1991 when we were both building our first companies.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Angels In The Architecture : A group of local angel investors, me, and a few angel backed entrepreneurs will discuss the role of angels investors in the VC / angel ecosystem. The tour is being sponsored by Cooley , Silicon Valley Bank , Microsoft , and Rackspace. This is an invite only event.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

“So if I can give entrepreneurs a single piece of advice for 2013 it would be to deliver on your promises. From Silicon Valley To Europe: Is The U.S. I sent Fred Wilson’s post Advice for 2013: Deliver On Your Promises out to our CEO email list. I felt like Fred’s punch line was powerful.

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