Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2018

The idea there is that “the dynamics will change when capital flows equally to any talented founder, no matter his or her gender, race, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic.” Project #MovingForward is building an open-source directory that pools diversity, inclusion, and anti-harassment commitments from VCs.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2014

Regardless, I love Fred’s punch line: So it was with incredible joy that I read these words by Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla Motors and possibly the most innovative entrepreneur in the world right now. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.”

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Our first interviewee – this coming Monday night – is Andre Durand, the founder and CEO of Ping Identity. Andre Durand brings 18 years of software industry executive leadership experience to his role as founder and CEO at Ping Identity. Prior to Ping Identity, Durand founded Jabber, Inc., Prior to Jabber, Inc.,

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

At the time David Cohen, the co-founder and CEO, was unhappy with how angel investing worked. It has a full time co-founder/CEO ( Dane McDonald ), just like Techstars was co-founded and run by David Cohen. For example, in 2006, we co-founded Techstars. Like Techstars, this is a new entity.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2010

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR). Then we’ll open source these and evangelize them across the startup world, at least in the US. TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). Series Seed Financing Documents (by Fenwick & West).

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