Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

David Cohen and I have co-hosted the Give First podcast for 71 episodes. I think our host ratio is 80/20 David/Brad, and he’s covered everything in 2021 because I was burned out on all things public-facing and needed a break. link] pic.twitter.com/j4GEht6xSv — Techstars (@Techstars) September 7, 2022.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

If this is interesting to you, they are hosting an event at USV on Monday, November 18, 2013 for 6pm to 8pm for those who can consider making investments of $5,000 and above due to space constraints. Fred and Joanne are doing this with The NYC Foundation For Computer Science Education (the executive director, Evan Korth , is a total star.)

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MARCH 6, 2023

It’s always been fun to host a national tech conference in Boulder. We’ve long held GlueCon at the Omni Interlocken — a space that allows the attendees to come together in an informal fashion, making it easy to meet just about anyone you’d like to while at the event.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

Anyone remember the web hosting rollup? Yeah – Verio was the big winner there (and they overlapped with the web hosting rollup since they evolved into that) and their timing was epic being bought by NTT for $5 billion in cash just before everything blew up. I’d argue the 0.5x Or the ASP rollup?

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MARCH 15, 2020

Ask our employees to stop hosting or attending voluntary/social public events of ANY size. We’re encouraging all of our employees, our friends, and our families to: Stop hosting or attending ALL voluntary/social public events of ANY size.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

Also, if you are a DevOps person or senior technical person in your organizations, Raj, Paul Ford from SoftLayer, and I are hosting a private DevOps Conference in Boulder on October 24th. Sign up for free today, at JumpCloud, and let Raj and I know what you think.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

I’ve gotten to know several of Rich’s partners over the past few years and recently had a wonderful Do More Faster book tour dinner hosted at Avalon’s San Diego office by Kevin Kinsella (a fellow MIT-grad turned VC.). In conjunction with their financing, Avalon just rolled out a new website designed by Slice of Lime.

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JULY 20, 2012

I’m on a Google Hangout today at 1pm Pacific time hosted by the EFF. I’ll be discussing the broken software patent system with Jason Schultz and Parker Higgins. I know this announcement is last minute – somehow the event eluded me and my calendar.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

On October 19th, Engage Boulder is hosting a breakfast with me from 7:30am to 9:30am to discuss the past, present, and future of Boulder. I’ve lived and worked here since 1995 so I’ve seen, and be involved in, a lot of the evolution of our city over this period of time.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

The host, Tamara Banks, reached out to me shortly after George Floyd was murdered. Millions of Americans, especially Black Americans, continue to rally to make their voices heard. From Moment to Movement” aims to give a platform to African American voices and dismantle systemic racism.

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MAY 11, 2021

Foundry Group is hosting an open virtual event to discuss the book. My partner Seth Levine and his co-author Elizabeth MacBride recently wrote an important book called The New Builders: Face to Face with the True Future of Business. It is out and available.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Google for Startups – along with some help from Techstars , Startup Colorado , and Foundry Group – is hosting a Startup Weekend at Google’s new(ish) office in Boulder Oct 25 – 27. The latest stats, which are likely already out of date, are; 23,000+ teams formed, 193,000+ alumni community members, happening in 150 Countries.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

I’m enjoying co-hosting the #GiveFirst podcast with David. In Episode 22, we review the last dozen podcast guests including Josh Hix , Rajat Bhargava , Elizabeth Kraus , Jason Mendelson , Jannet Bannister , Heidi Roizen , Marc Nager & Dave Mayer , John China , Sherri Hammons , Rebecca Lovell , and Harry Stebbings.

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MARCH 20, 2020

The first, hosted by David Cohen , is with Scott Dorsey , Paul Berberian , and Berne Strom. Over the past week, I’ve done a handful of podcasts to help entrepreneurs, leaders, and employees at startups to help think through how to respond in a crisis.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

About a month ago, I participated in a discussion hosted by the CU Boulder Conference on World Affairs titled Back to the Future: Lessons for our emerging challenges from science fiction and history. The moderator was Phil Weiser (Colorado’s Attorney General).

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JUNE 19, 2020

Celebration that was hosted by OHUB , ThePlug , and Living Cities and led by Rodney Sampson. Help organize and co-host a Racial Equity conference inclusive of Rodney’s network, my network, and anyone else who wants to participate. Today, I participated in the Juneteeneth 4.0 Here’s the fact sheet released by OHUB today.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Peter Sagal (host of NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!) Peter is an awesome host and he pulls out a ton of interesting, useful, and curious information from Craig. Separately, I listened to The Chernobyl Podcast on my drive up to Aspen about two weeks ago. interviews Craig Mazin (Chernobyl Series Creator and Executive Producer.)

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MAY 3, 2016

However, our friendship developed and he’s been an amazing host anytime I’ve been in Toronto. I almost invested in his company Engagio (there’s now a different company by that name) but decided not to. Several years ago William became obsessed with Bitcoin and then the Blockchain.

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MAY 9, 2019

While I’ve been interviewed for many podcasts, I’ve never hosted one before. Readers of this blog likely know that this is the mantra of Techstars and the title of an upcoming book of mine that will be published in 2020.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

We’re looking to work with 15 – 25 locations in or around the cities of Baltimore, DC, and Philadelphia to host hotspots. In return, we’ll be providing hosts with a % of the network’s tokens ‘mined’ by the hotspots. . To apply to be a host, fill out the Mid-Atlantic Application.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

On October 8th at 5:30 pm MST, I’m co-hosting a virtual fundraiser with my good friends Governor Jared Polis, Gap Fund Chair Kent Thiry, and Energize Colorado’s CEO, Wendy Lea. We need your help to meet the need and to maintain our commitment to rebuilding a statewide economy that is more inclusive and more resilient.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Larry was a master interviewer before everyone in tech started being a podcast host or a podcast guest. They took it all in, took tons of photos, and always wrote up interesting stuff about what was going on. “This is Larry Nelson of w3w3.com” com” sticks in my mind.

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JULY 17, 2023

Less than a year from its inception, Soundarya and Sameer are hosting a grand event to launch their book on July 22nd, 2023, in Sunnyvale, CA. Soundarya and Sameer managed to break down how legal immigration worked in simple and engaging language while capturing the raw emotions in the firsthand stories of immigrants.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Pandere Shoes is an Alaskan founded and women-owned startup that creates expandable footwear that accommodates a host of conditions such as edema, diabetes, and neuropathy. . They have stayed involved in the community by volunteering as coaches, hosting dinners, and offering advice to budding entrepreneurs.

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MAY 14, 2020

Bryan Leech at iBotta hosted the first “Denver Business Leaders” call the morning of March 11th. My parents were coming to Boulder on March 12th for a long weekend and to celebrate my dad’s 82nd birthday. My brother Daniel and I decided to cancel their trip and told them the night of March 11th.

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APRIL 28, 2020

The Second Wind Fund of Boulder County is hosting a Virtual 5k run on Sunday. Second Wind Fund of Boulder County has a mission to decrease the incidence of suicide in children and youth by removing the financial and social barriers to treatment. We are dealing with three crises right now: health, financial, and mental health.

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JUNE 18, 2020

It’s being hosted by OHUB , ThePlug , and Living Cities. I’m going to participate in the Juneteeneth 4.0 Celebration tomorrow from 1pm – 4pm ET.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

The web hosting business – lead by Exodus – almost entirely went bankrupt or was restructured. And, you know that the companies that survived it were the ones with very strong fundamental businesses (e.g. Google), regardless of whether they were private or public at the time. At the same time, entire categories collapsed.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I was the co-host for the first couple of years, sharing the interview job with another Brad (Bernthal) who now is generally on his own. One of my favorite public events is the CU Boulder Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged series. ” The event will be held at the CU Boulder Law School.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

They successfully handed over the reins to campus leadership last year, and Brad continues to support the effort through the IT track, which Silicon Flatirons hosts. He collaborated with others on campus to launch and drive the New Venture Challenge for nine years. And when he’s not doing all of the above, he is, well, giving first.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

On November 5th, from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT, I’m co-hosting a DEIS Practicum with Rodney Sampson and the OHUB Foundation. Rodney was one of the dozen Black colleagues I reached out to after George Floyd was murdered.

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MAY 9, 2017

The Kauffman Fellows Academy and Techstars are co-hosting the course. The Venture Deals Online Course for this spring starts this Sunday May 14, 2017 and runs through July 3, 2017. It’s free – all you need to do is sign up. This is the fifth time we are running the course.

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JUNE 5, 2020

I appreciate the sponsors – NVCA, Salesforce Ventures, Deloitte, and SVB – for hosting. Along with Robin, the panelists are Kate Mitchell (Scale Venture Partners), Heather Gates (Deloitte & Touche), and Elliott Robinson (Bessemer Venture Partners).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Chapter 11 is the one on Modern Finance. Who said professors at MIT didn’t have a sense of humor.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Since I first wrote about their launch, EforAll Longmont has hosted two pitch contests featuring over 50 entrepreneurs. Its programs include a free, full-year Business Accelerator that utilizes a cohort model and includes intensive business training and mentorship as well as quarterly community pitch contests.

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JUNE 17, 2012

Bala Kamallakharan organized the event and moderated the discussion (and was an amazing host.) Brad Burnham ( Union Square Ventures ) and I were in Iceland a few weeks ago for the Startup Iceland event.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

While there’s still plenty of that in the system, many of the products and services are maturing and the particular segment Standing Cloud has gone after has suddenly become incredibly important to a large number of hosting, managed services, and cloud providers (often the same thing) not named Amazon.

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