Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Take a small amount of equity (usually ~6%) and overall have terms that are favorable to entrepreneurs. Have a strong management team who are typically proven entrepreneurs. Accelerators business david cohen entrepreneur global accelerator network Seed money TechStars United States Venture Capital'

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 4, 2017

If you look at the landscape of success entrepreneurs in the United States you see a remarkable number of first and second generation immigrants. Many entrepreneurs I’ve met have articulated a similar emotion around their experience leaving whatever they were doing to start a new company.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Several months ago I wrote a post about the policy changes that have a material, positive impact immigrant entrepreneurs who apply for a visa. Last week I was briefed on a USCIS “Entrepreneurs in Residence” Initiative. While Congress has been completely stalled on the Startup Visa, the White House hasn’t.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced legislation to drive job creation and increase America’s global competiveness by helping immigrant entrepreneurs secure visas to the United States. and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), and thereby create ten jobs, to obtain a green card.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2010

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.”. The second was to get new first-time entrepreneurs involved more deeply in the Boulder entrepreneurial community.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2010

Recently, TechStars began expanding outside the United States through its new TechStars Global Affiliate program. From experience, we know that investing internationally from the United States is difficult. However, the demand from entrepreneurs throughout the world for a TechStars-like program has been substantial.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2013

Entrepreneurs with a compelling track record and approach should be able to easily raise, or even provide this capital. without government funding, being run as entrepreneurial ventures for profit by entrepreneurs. If entrepreneurs can’t figure out how to fund it, why should the government do it?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

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. Case studies : Entrepreneurs and investors who are building startup communities around the world. in terms of tech-startup density.

Colorado 136

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2019

Entrepreneurs talk about “changing the world”, but the companies that emerge often ring hollow against this backdrop. Boundless Immigration aspires to be the leading brand around legal immigration in the United States. I love running marathons but I’m less happy about the body soreness and longer recovery cycles as I age.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

We’ll be operating under my first principle of entrepreneurial communities – that an entrepreneurial community must be lead by entrepreneurs. We’ll also be joined by several special guests, including Scott Case (Startup America Partnership CEO) and Aneesh Chopra (United States Chief Technology Officer).

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

The two most notable are the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado and the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars. That year private equity firms initiated one of every five mergers globally and even more, 29 percent, in the United States. King of Capital was a really useful book to read on a number of levels.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I’ve spent a lot of time there over the years, going back to the mid-1990s when I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation. While I don’t like BBQ or the Kansas City Chiefs, I like the people a lot and think it has one of the most exciting growing startup communities in the United States.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Yet the number of entrepreneurs in Boulder is significant. Start with the definition: entrepreneurial density = ((# entrepreneurs + # people working for startups or high growth companies)) / adult population. My guess is that Boulder’s entrepreneurial density is one of the highest in the United States.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Amy and I are traveling all over the United States like nomads – San Francisco, Boise, Oklahoma City, St. Amy and I are finishing up the next book in the Startup Revolution series – Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur which should be out by the end of the year.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The super angel is hyper-connected and works closely with the entrepreneurs he/she invests in. Are the entrepreneurs getting the same attention from that angel–especially when they enter year three of their life, hit a bunch of speed bumps and need a lot of help? Now, take a super angel with a 20-company portfolio.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2015

Both Jeff and I have been working hard on making it much easier for immigrant entrepreneurs to get visa’s to start their companies in the US. At the end of the discussion, we decided to start the Global EIR Coalition to open source our approach and try to help every state in the US implement a similar program.

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Feld Thoughts

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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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Through YEO, I got to know Mike and Cindy (who is also an entrepreneur and was in YEO) very well. When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we stated that we would invest in companies throughout the United States. My long standing relationship with Mike.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2011

Oh, and Boise is a pretty cool place, as is Austin, Seattle, Miami, DC, and at least 95 other cities in the United States. If you want to be an entrepreneur, working at an investment bank or consulting firm for a while is pointless. Be an entrepreneur starting now.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2018

We invest all over the United States and Canada. We very much look forward to continuing to work with everyone we currently work with, as well as another group of great entrepreneurs and VC fund managers in our Foundry Group Next 2018 Fund. When we started Foundry Group, we had four equal partners.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2015

I first met Ben through my long time friend Niel Robertson , an entrepreneur we’ve backed many times. During the SARS epidemic, I started interviewing doctors and specialists and discovered how close we had come to some form of martial law in the United States.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Dear Mr. Trump, Thanks to the hard work of many before me, I, an entrepreneur born in the same year as your daughter Ivanka, have grown up believing I could do everything my brother could do. It is hard to deny what you’ve achieved as an entrepreneur. I’ve never really felt the weight of the glass ceiling. I know you’ve apologized.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2018

I’ve been consistently public, for almost a decade, about my belief that we should significantly change our approach to immigration in the US, especially for entrepreneurs. Over the years, I’ve invested in many immigrant entrepreneurs. I’ve gotten to know and deeply respect Ayah as a leader and an entrepreneur.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2017

Yesterday, the White House announced it was delaying and likely eliminating the International Entrepreneur Rule. Steve Case says it really well in his article America Will Fall Behind Without Immigrant Entrepreneurs. Retain the International Entrepreneur Rule so the best technology is created and developed here rather than overseas.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I’m in a consistent conversation with a lot of entrepreneurs. But the weather, at least in much of the United States, will cool off and the leaves will turn different colors. Some of it might be that it’s just been really hot outside for a while and it’s time for the cooler, softer tones of fall.

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