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Honoring Cecelia Feld on International Women’s Day 2023

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I’ve been fortunate to have many incredible women influence my life and how I think about gender and gender equity. They were equal partners in their relationship. My mother, Cecelia Feld , is the first of them. My parents modeled excellent behavior for me as I was growing up.

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Rally Gives $1.3 Million To The Boulder Community

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This check is for The Community Foundation and for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) and results from a gift of 24,793 shares of common stock from Rally at the time of its first financing that represented approximately 1% of the equity of the company. I remember numerous conversations with Ryan about this.

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Cleantech Open Northeast 2021

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Investors are seeking both financial returns and environmental impact and looking for opportunities to partner with ventures that are working to tackle our world’s biggest energy and environmental challenges. Cleantech Open has a particular focus on incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) values into its program.

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Book: So you want to talk about race

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I’m continuing my weekend reading goal of a book on racial equity. by Rodney Sampson who I’m partnering with on the #RacialEquityEcosystemPledge. Last week was Kingonomics: Twelve Innovative Currencies for Transforming Your Business and Life Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It was excellent.

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Denver Startup Week 2020

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I’m involved in a bunch of stuff this year, which I’ll list below, but I want to highlight a few specific events, including the Keynote Kickoff with Robert Smith of Vista Equity Partners who grew up in Denver. There is a large effort around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

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No More MBOs

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My partner Dave and I took the number, made a list of all employees, and figured out how much we were going to give each of them. Even better, consider using equity compensation as the bonus. At Feld Technologies, we had a very simple bonus program. Each quarter, we paid out 10% of pre-tax profits as a bonus.

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Book: King of Capital

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While 2011 is only eight years ago, it’s a lifetime in the world of finance, private equity, venture capital, and business. It was indeed private equity’s moment. That year private equity firms initiated one of every five mergers globally and even more, 29 percent, in the United States.