Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

The Nissan Leaf battery pack alone costs about $18,000 (though government incentives bring down the overall vehicle cost to the customer). More efficient use of roads will save governments money in reduced infrastructure costs. Simply put, the money is with the forces for autonomous vehicles. Trains & Hyperloops.

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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.” Ironically, of the three public companies that have > $1 trillion market caps, one of them (Microsoft) is headquartered in Seattle, which is definitely not part of Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Seattle, Portland, Austin, New York City and Chicago have come up in the U.S. In Singapore, the government has been extremely supportive, and there is entrepreneurial activity, although we have not yet seen very significant companies emerge. Over the last few years, however, several geographies have come up.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Given that it was a public tender the chairman of our board had encouraged us to think about launching a complaint with the UK government agency in charge of such reviews. I didn’t want this to happen again – that people didn’t know me.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Given that it was a public tender the chairman of our board had encouraged us to think about launching a complaint with the UK government agency in charge of such reviews. I didn’t want this to happen again – that people didn’t know me.

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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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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

Seattle, Washington, USA. At number eight according to Compass, Seattle ranked third for startup experience, and fourth for available talent. As a longstanding player in the tech scene, with companies like Microsoft and Amazon calling Seattle home, the tech sector of the startup industry in Seattle is currently the most vibrant.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Startup Chile is a government-sponsored effort to attract and support entrepreneurs from inside and outside Chile with cash and services. Seattle, Washington. Santiago, Chile, is number 20 in the Ecosystem Index and is “a really an up-and-coming ecosystem,” Hermann says. They just build some science park.”

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. It's painfully obvious that, like many other folks in NYC government, Ms. Hey everyone!

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Similar effects are seen in Seattle and surrounding neighborhoods, home to Amazon’s main HQ and Microsoft. 5/ Network-scale businesses often have more power and leverage over governments. 4/ Politicians need to become dealmakers for their constituents. The truth of the matter is, Amazon doesn’t need NYC in order to succeed.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

A friend of mine in Seattle just asked me the same question recently. For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. This is tough, and something I hear a lot.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2021

United Way partnered with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management to offer classes on general board governance topics such as finance and accountability. Boys & Girls Clubs of King County, Seattle. Shields for Families, Los Angeles. Howard Brown Health Center, Chicago.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

Then there's Seattle, of course. The Provincial Government also offers tax credits and cash-back incentives to investors, as well as investment and support from the regional colleges and universities. The proximity to other tech hubs like Seattle and Silicon Valley may make it easy to overlook Vancouver.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

While I’m glad Denver approached it the way they did, focusing on strength and resources of the community rather than by throwing dollars at Amazon, our state government still provided plenty of financial incentives. Amazon HQ2 could qualify for huge Colorado tax incentives.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. Mayors don’t build startup cities.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Some of the obvious vertical markets have been around cleantech and bio / life sciences but some of the more subtle ones have been around government services and non-profits. If you fit in this mix or know someone or an organization that does, can you leave a comment on this post?

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

Its streamlined nature makes it more responsive than most governments. So in the early days and weeks of the pandemic, when our own federal government seemed largely paralyzed or in denial about how to respond to the rapid global spread of the disease, the Gates Foundation continued to escalate its investments.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

RideAlong has an initial pilot with Seattle, where officers previously had to search their email inboxes (while driving) for similar information stored in .pdfs Austin Mayor Steve Adler The event was kicked off by Austin Mayor Steve Adler and MCed by Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett. pdfs sent to the entire force.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Locations: San Francisco, Austin, New York, London, Milan, Munich, Shanghai, Gurgaon, Seattle, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Sydney. This Seattle-based agency has been “creating kick-ass brands since 2001,” according to its website. Headquarters: Seattle, Washington. Headquarters: San Francisco, California. Urban Influence.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The City of Austin operates as a council-manager form of government, where City Council sets the policy and budget and the City Manager implements both. Scott Kubly is the Seattle Department of Transportation director and previously served as deputy director of the Chicago Department of Transportation. Why does the City Manager matter?

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. August practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, commercial transactions, general corporate law and business bankruptcy.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 29, 2011

I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. From there, the tour goes through Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, New York, Boston, Chicago, DC, and culminates back in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club on September 27.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. Refunds can be as high as 65% of the R&D cost.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 3, 2009

  The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was.   In truth, our industry is built on a trust model.   Prudence wins out over blind trust.

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Austin Startup

JULY 15, 2017

(As it so happens, I was sued by Uber and Lyft last year solely for requesting access to the ridership data they provide to the city of Seattle; an appeal of the verdict is currently pending before the Washington Supreme Court. But that’s another story.)

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. Moving a manufacturing facility is hard. Moving a technology platform is easy.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A: There are a number of top cities when it comes to mobile sofware and applications: Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle and Austin to name a few. Tags: Digital Government innotech Mobile. Q4: How has Austin become one of the leaders in mobile telephone development and what can we expect in the future? Today it is picking up again.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past decade, we’ve helped tens of thousands of diverse clients, including entrepreneurs, small business owners, big Brands, agencies, non-profits, and even governments. The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in Seattle. 16 years later , Starbucks was finally ready to expand outside of Seattle.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

He wrote a big essay to the government and demanded all the people locally stopped killing the bird or capturing it for pets or for food. It seems crazy in Seattle, but it doesn’t seem crazy in China at all. Here was a guy in the ’70s who went to the island of St. Lucia to try and save a species of parrot.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. Refunds can be as high as 65% of the R&D cost.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. 10 ]Yes, actually: dealing with the government. This is one of the most powerful forces in humannature, and its missing when theres just one founder. Bad Location Startups prosper in some places and not others. Afterthat theres not much.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub. 6 ]Ive omitted one source: government grants.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. Importantly the Irish government and local businesses roll out the red carpet to make sure everybody visiting leaves with a strong appreciation of the economic benefits for US startups in locating their European headquarters in Ireland vs. all of the other Continental options available.

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