Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2012

David Cohen, TechStars. Jason Seats, TechStars. Finally – thank you, thank you, thank you to all the mentors helping out next week: Aneesh Chopra, Former US Chief Technology Officer. Donna Harris, Startup America. Jared Polis, TechStars. Kwasi Asare, Moodlerooms. Nicole Glaros, TechStars. Al Doan, Missouri Star Quilt Co.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is the recent book by TechStars co-founder David Cohen and Brad Feld. Rework was written by 37 signals founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, and it's based on the lessons they've learned from running the company. You can read our review here.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

My partners and I, especially Jason Mendelson, have been very involved with Silicon Flatirons over the past decade. In addition to leading the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic that aids the startup community, Brad co-teaches a venture capital course at Colorado Law, along with Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Joshua Baer & Jason Cohen do this in Austin, Texas. And they helped David Cohen launch TechStars , which started as a Boulder-based accelerator. And ensuring we leave with a positive impression. Or great bloggers who spread the word far and wide like Rand Fishkin who you must read here.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

David Cohen, Founder/CEO, TechStars. Jason Mendelson, Managing Director, Foundry Group. Some of the mentors, in addition to me, include: Jeff Powers, Founder, Occipital, Andrew Tschesnok, Founder, Organic Motion. Manu Kumar, Investor, K-9 Ventures. Eran Egozy, Founder and CTO Harmonix.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My fellow Capital Factory colleague, Jason Cohen, contends that marketing should pay for such offerings and I can’t disagree ( see his blog post here ). Jason Cohen also wrote a very insightful article about this issue.

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David Cohen

JUNE 15, 2021

All of these questions reminded me of how Techstars Chief Investment Officer, Jason Seats , explains to startups how to get an investor to say yes. Jason likes to explain that getting an investor should be thought of as a search operation and not as a persuasion exercise. Thanks Jason! Let’s dive in a bit. #1

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 24, 2013

A few weeks ago I did a long interview with Jason Calacanis on This Week In Startups. The other day Jason released an interview that he recently did with David Cohen, the CEO of TechStars. The post Cohen / Calacanis Interview on This Week In Startups appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Austin Startup

JULY 28, 2017

Sincerely, Gene Austin CEO, Bazaarvoice in Austin Joshua Baer Executive Director, Capital Factory in Austin Tom Ball General Partner, Next Coast Ventures in Austin John Berkowitz CEO, Ojo Labs in Austin Bill Blackstone General Manager, Galvanize in Austin Trey Bowles Executive Director, The Dallas Entrepreneurship Center in Dallas Sara Brand General (..)

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2018

While what I’ve done with Amy is the most visible example of this, collaborations with Dave Jilk, Jason Mendelson, David Cohen, Lucy Sanders, and many others come to mind. If, like me, you alternate between solo efforts and partnerships, it’s also wonderful. Some of my best work has been done with a partner.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 4, 2014

Austin Heather Brunner Jason Cohen technology Wordpress hosting WPEngine' About 30 members of the company’s support staff are gathered around two long tables fielding calls from customers having problems with their websites.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Monitor for early signs) — Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) July 15, 2017. — Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) July 15, 2017. — Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) July 15, 2017. — Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) July 15, 2017. — Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) July 15, 2017.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 15, 2013

I’m excited to join David Cohen and his team in announcing TechStars in Austin. From the TechStars blog: “The Managing Director of TechStars Austin is Jason Seats. Jason is a “ techie ” and entrepreneur. Rackspace acquired his company Slicehost in 2008 and then made him VP of Engineering.

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SiliconHills

MAY 15, 2013

Austin Capital Factory David Cohen Geekdom Jason Seats San Antonio startups technology TechStars TechStars Cloud' . “Forbes and Bloomberg have been calling Austin the No. 1 Boomtown and the best place for your startup for years now, and Google recently chose it as the second city to receive the fastest Internet on [.]

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Tessera Naturals Co-Founder, Jason Cohen Austinites Jason and Olga Cohen embraced CBD’s possibilities early-on, but were frustrated by the inconsistent product quality across this new and rapidly changing industry. CBD 101: Look for US-grown, organic, non-gmo, and solvent-free.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Tessera Naturals Co-Founder, Jason Cohen Austinites Jason and Olga Cohen embraced CBD’s possibilities early-on, but were frustrated by the inconsistent product quality across this new and rapidly changing industry. CBD 101: Look for US-grown, organic, non-gmo, and solvent-free.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2019

David Cohen and I came out with the 2nd Edition of Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup. Jason Mendelson and I are releasing the 4th Edition of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist next week. Recently, we decided to start publishing the best content we have in the Techstars network.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 4, 2018

WP Engine, founded by Jason Cohen in 2010, now has more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue and more than 75,000 customers worldwide, […]. The post WP Engine Lands $250 Million in Funding from Silver Lake appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

Last night I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum event started by Jason Calacanis , a fellow LA resident. Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2014

When I was there in October 2012 with my partners Ryan and Jason to run the Detroit Marathon we talked about the idea of getting more involved there in some way. Jason grew up in Detroit and has lots of stories there. David Cohen, David Brown, and the team at Techstars grabbed it and ran with it.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2012

Bram Cohen. Eccentric nerd” Bram Cohen founded BitTorrent, and turned the Internet world on its head. Cohen sees the world differently than most of us, and his unique vision has transformed his industry and produced incredible results.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 3, 2013

Jason Cohen founded WPEngine because his A Smart Bear blog kept crashing whenever he wrote a popular post. Cohen, who has founded four startups and sold two, founded the specialized [.] He looked around for a reliable hosting site, but he couldn’t find one. So he thought why not create one? WP Engine was born.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

They are all on your team and you are guaranteed to get a first meeting with them (you have to earn a second one): Sorush Shawn Abboud David Altounian | LinkedIn Chris Aniszczyk | LinkedIn David Aronica | LinkedIn John Arrow | LinkedIn Joshua Baer | LinkedIn Karen Bantuveris | LinkedIn Bill Boebel | LinkedIn Bernie Brenner | LinkedIn Heather Brunner (..)

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 30, 2010

A good chunk of chapter 6 from my startup book went live on the interwebs this morning as a guest post on Jason Cohen’s popular startup blog A Smart Bear. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I had a great time and met a ton of new people (including finally meeting Jason Cohen and Patrick McKenzie after exchanging many emails over the past year or two). The Business of Software 2010 was last week in Boston. This is without a doubt my favorite conference every year.

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SiliconHills

MAY 13, 2014

The Austin-based startup received funds from angel investors Jason Cohen of WP Engine, Rob Taylor or Black Locus, Mikey Trafton of BlueFish, Bill Boebel of Pingboard, Pat Matthews, formerly of Rackspace, and Joshua Baer […] The post LanternCRM Raises $250,000 from Local Angels appeared first on SiliconHills.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. In this episode, Jason speaks with Jared from Padseeker.com. Don’t forget to sign up for the wonderful Business of Software conference to hear Jason speak in person. Jason: So what’s the idea?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Was it David Cohen’ Idea? Is that when it became big? Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. And they made an early investment in Yahoo.“ “….a And how do you know David? “It It was David’s idea.” “Well I didn’t know David.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 14, 2012

Last week’s video put the spotlight on Jason Cohen, founder of WPEngine and other startups including co-founding Capital Factory. Every week, We Are Austin Tech, a group of entrepreneurs, technologists and other volunteers release a video highlighting someone who has contributed to the local technology industry.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 17, 2011

No matter which camp you're in - "genius" or "terrible" - the Hipster name seems to have generated a fair amount of buzz for the company, which hopes to present at Jason Calacanis's LAUNCH conference next month. Cohen suggests that entrepreneurs don't need to use available domain names as the way to brainstorm and select a company.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

On This Week In TechStars #6, David Cohen interviews Jason Mendelson on the making of our hard hitting documentary on VCs music video “ I’m A VC.&# If you haven’t yet watched I’m A VC , what are you waiting for?

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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. I wrote my first book, Do More Faster , with David Cohen in 2010. 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.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I speculate that the following video is the work of Jason Mendelson. On a more serious note, Andrew Warner has a great interview with my co-author and TechStars CEO David Cohen up on Mixergy. I love my partners at Foundry Group. They keep me humble. Very humble. Payback will be sweet.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Finally, Jason Baptiste (OnSwipe CEO – TechStars New York 2011 class) demonstrates his awesomeness with his new book The Ultralight Startup: Launching a Business Without Clout or Capital. This puppy is packed with very specific advice about launching a business that come from Jason’s experience with OnSwipe and Cloudomatic.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 25, 2021

.” It’s an honor to be included as a contributor alongside a number of awesome CEOs, including Reid Hoffman, Ingrid Alongi, Daniel Benhammou, Sal Carcia, Ben Casnocha, Ralph Clark, David Cohen, Mat Ellis, Tim Enwall, Nicole Glaros, Will Herman, Mike Kail, Luke Kanies, Walter Knapp, Gary LaFever, Tracy Lawrence, Jenny Lawton, Seth Levine, (..)

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

Jason Cohen has a great line about this in Solving the “marketplace” business model : If you’re bootstrapping and your value proposition includes the words “anything” or “anyone,” you’re probably reaching too far. By doing so, you definitely constrain the problem, but it doesn’t strictly go away.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

jason martell Great title for this article which I think could be expanded further! Jason Martell sachin these are good tips.every point is like mandatory to get success.thanks. poteenguzzler Jason, this is a brilliant and honest article. This story originally appeared on his blog.)

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