Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

He has a vision and the experience to create a non-partisan organization to engage and educate people, especially policymakers in government, regarding the critical importance of entrepreneurs and startups to innovation, economic growth, and job creation. It’s a great book that every policy maker in government at any level should read.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2018

Simultaneously, governments around the world have spent zillions of dollars building surveillance systems since the beginning of – well – humans. Or at least since the beginning of governments. It knows far, far more about you than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2010

For two days I was immersed in government leadership. Yesterday I woke up very late in the morning to Brad Burnham’s post titled Web Services as Governments. It’s a must read post where he makes several very specific analogies for which web services act like which kinds of government. That’s So Yesterday about the Singularity.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2013

Everyone else – who I call the “feeders” (government, university, non-profits, big companies, VCs, angel investors) – have an important role, but the leaders must be entrepreneurs. As I continue to talk about Startup Communities , I say over and over and over again that the leaders have to be entrepreneurs.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Over the past eighteen months I’ve gotten to know a number of people in the executive brand of our government, especially at the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council. Fortunately, the White House listened to a number of smart people, including the amazing folks at the Kauffman Foundation.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Apple Says the Government Bungled Its Chance to Get That iPhone’s Data (Wired). In other words, nothing has changed in my opinion that Apple is in the right in this situation, but I can now explain it a lot more clearly. The Dangerous All Writs Act Precedent in the Apple Encryption Case (The New Yorker). Secret Memo Details U.S.’s

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I tried to educate some of my friends in government about this. We seem to not be able to rely on the government to take action that will affect change. For a while I was frustrated by software patents. I was hopeful when the Supreme Court heard Bilski that they would take a stand on it. Such a change cannot come soon enough.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2017

And the government is watching. As I did a fairly sophisticated transaction on my computer yesterday that moved cash into a cybercurrency, I had the phrase “money is a consensual hallucination” echoing in my head. Math and computers are helping reinforce this.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 21, 2020

As this has been happening over the past four months, the entire US macro model around government debt was thrown out the window, resulting in a massive economic value shift (both positive and negative) across our entire economy. Many of the things we believe exist run off of playbooks. Take K-12 education. Or unnecessary.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 16, 2023

But then, almost as quickly, the government stepped in and money began flowing. For Brad Feld, he was couch shopping with his wife. Feld is no stranger to crises and his instincts kicked in quickly. “I I shifted into problem-solving mode,” says Feld. Crisis averted. It was time to reflect.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Many of bitcoin’s most vocal proponents see bitcoin as a currency, a replacement for currencies that are created and managed by governments. First, and very generally, I don’t tend to think that dis-intermediating government institutions is a useful goal in and of itself. I’m deeply skeptical of this set of ideas.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2023

While this de-escalated on Sunday night after the US Government took decisive action, the level of stress and anxiety, especially for first-time founders, was extreme. We bank at SVB, so our maneuverability was also unknown, so we searched for what I’d consider heroic options from various sources.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2020

Most people, unless you work either for government or an infectious disease “organization” (non-profit, hospital, health care system) probably had not heard the phrase “contact tracing” until a month or so ago. I now hear and see the phrase “contact tracing” everywhere.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

I’m totally sick and exhausted with our federal government. She totally nails it – people at the top, then metros, then states, and then federal government following their leads. Government government immigration metropolitan revolution startup communities' Idiotic and totally broken.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Local and state governments are under economic and functional stress. Some tech companies stock prices are at record highs, while established businesses are in a complete retreat or freefall. Many small businesses are on the verge of extinction – ponder all the local retail businesses and restaurants in your city.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2023

A few others said some versions of all governments are Ponzi schemes. Yesterday, in response to Reflecting on Ponzi Schemes , I got a few that said anyone under 35 needs a net native currency, and that’s crypto. And I got a few that implied I hated crypto.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 9, 2020

Simultaneously, a correspondingly large number of people, both in government, private industry, and volunteers, are working behind the scenes to get to whatever “the new normal” is going to be in our society. Please be safe and healthy.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 22, 2015

Santa Fe’s anemic economy is due in large part because Santa Fe has an older population made up primarily of retirees in addition to federal, state and local government workers and service-based workers. We have one “larger” company based in Santa Fe: Thornburg Investment Management which thankfully provides 250 high wage jobs.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

It was a good movie, but the arrogance of some government agencies (in this case British MI-5) was overwhelmingly real and upsetting. We went to bed when we got home and I tossed and turned for awhile, thinking about nasty government s**t. There were the predictable articles that reinforced the incredible arrogance of government.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 23, 2020

I’ve decided to focus all of my government-related energy on helping at the state level in Colorado, especially around business and innovation. We have an awesome community of CEOs and GPs who are deeply connected to each other, so collective situational response and action happened fast.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 21, 2020

It has a politics—this Vietnam-era rejection of the military-industrial complex, rejection of the mainframe, Big Business, Big Government, big universities.” And, in case you thought the government was the solution, here are a few more to read. This led people to take risks and launch new projects and firms.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

The National Day of Civic Hacking is the first of a yearly event created by the White House to gather Citizen Engineers and have them use newly accessible government data to improve their communities and our entire society. Government government hackathon open data rally'

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2020

To date, the fund has allocated $8.4 million to 371 organizations serving all 64 counties in Colorado. We’ve all been working from home for the past 30 days (so, about 20 work days).

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Because what local government does affect you : It decides: The safety and upkeep of our public areas. Because it gives you the power to create change : We become the city we imagine, and how we govern ourselves has a lot to say about it. In the 2015 city council election, Jan Burton was only elected by 125 votes.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 11, 2020

This is intended as a bridge until government funding shows up, people can get back to work, or figure out another source of funding. The mission of the $1K Project is to help families impacted by the pandemic by connecting them directly with sponsors who are willing to gift them $1k a month for three months.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2021

Governments trying to regulate it each time will be slow, and all will fail to do what they want to do while creating other unintended consequences. Welcome to another part of our world (financial markets), where the unintended consequences of technology wreak havoc. We are living in a complex system.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 1, 2020

Rather than duplicate efforts, Energize Colorado is adding to the mix, amplifying things that other non-profits are doing, highlighting new initiatives, and helping business people understand and navigate the many new initiatives from our State and Federal government.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2020

By not staying at home, by having parties, by congregating, you are not sticking it to the government. He follows with: It’s not a contest to see what you can get away with. It’s a contest to see how well you can stay at home. You are not sticking it to Jared Polis.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2020

They were also each excellent and gave me useful perspective on our current reality, along with how our government responded during two other major crises (one health, one economic.). The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John Barry The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 8, 2014

At the same time, I’ve been very open with my belief over the last decade that there is no more privacy, that the government tracks everything we do, and if you build your worldview around the notion that you have privacy, you are going to be disappointed. I guess I’ve been watching too much 24. Books greenwald nsa Snowden'

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2019

government around this and basically were told some version of “go away – you are too small and unimportant.” It also became apparent, almost right away, that startups had a huge disadvantage over larger companies that had significant U.S. lobbying activities. We explored a few paths to engaging with the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 16, 2019

After a decade, it’s clear that our federal government has broadly failed us on this front. I’ve been working on the Startup Visa since I first wrote about it 2009 in my post The Founders Visa Movement. In 2015, I announced the Global EIR initiative to try something different.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2017

There is now a long history of governments trying to control the Internet. One approach over government is censoring the Internet; another is weaponizing it. Apple Removes Apps That Allowed China Users to Get Around Filters. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who is paying attention.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 24, 2018

There are probably others who feel like they shouldn’t have to pay any tax because they believe bitcoin is outside the reach of the government. More generally, cracking down on tax evasion will require that the community learn to trust government. Two interesting articles came out in the past week. But, I loved the final paragraph.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 7, 2014

Government fcc net neutrality' Instead of everyone getting tangled up in the legal question of what “net neutrality” means, consumers can see what could happen if / when ISPs can decide which companies get to use their fast lanes by paying extra and who is relegated to the slow lane.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The agenda ( full agenda here ) includes the following discussions: DEIS in Corporate Governance & Board DEIS in Human Resources & Talent Acquisition DEIS in Procurement DEIS in Edge Technology Product Development & Corporate Innovation DEIS in Go To Market DEIS in Venture Capital & Investment DEIS in Impact.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2020

As someone who personally has been shipping out a lot of money and time to help, it feels like private companies could be a little more generous about how they contract with State governments right now around the crisis, especially for things (like software) that have a marginal cost of almost zero. Back to Zoom fatigue.

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