Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now. It’s off to a great start. Pick one section each week.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2016

Jerry Colonna and I are having a fireside chat and Q&A about leadership and mental health on Tuesday, June 28th at 3pm at The Josef Korbel School for International Studies. The post Leadership and Mental Health appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Please register and join us.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 29, 2016

” I couldn’t agree more and applaud Joi’s vision and leadership. The post MIT Media Lab’s Leadership in Open Source Software appeared first on Feld Thoughts. . “As an academic institution, we believe that in many cases we can achieve greater impact by sharing our work.”

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2014

Now, these duos are not the leadership team. Management ceo founders leadership management' But many of the companies I’m involved in have duos that develop over time. Sarah and Rand ( Moz ). Bre and Jenny ( MakerBot ). Matt and George ( Return Path ). David and David ( Techstars ). We are both all in.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now. It’s off to a great start. Pick one section each week.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

We address issues of leadership, motivation, morals, creativity, culture, strategy, conflict, and knowledge. In business and entrepreneurship literature, inspiration is sometimes more helpful than instruction. Though there is plenty of how-to information in this book, we aim to give you food for thought from a different perspective.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2017

Phil is a rare entrepreneur who can bring innovation to the government, which is just the sort of leadership we need now. Closer to home, our current Attorney General joined Scott Pruitt in challenging President Obama’s leadership in this area. Today, we put more people in jail than any nation in the world.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2016

There are many things about this that are difficult, but a vexing one has to do with the leadership team. As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. By definition, as a company scales rapidly, it adds people quickly.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 1, 2018

When I think of the leadership I provide, it’s thought leadership , not functional leadership. Supportive : While an element of my work life is to be a leader, I have enjoyed moving into a coach and mentor role. Around v35, I decided not to be a CEO (or chairman) anymore.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

Huge kudos to Bryan Leach at iBotta and Rachel Carlson at Guild Education for providing urgent and effective leadership here. A group of us are working quickly to create more mechanisms for a coordinated response, collective action, funding for critical resources, and ideas for things to do that will have a positive impact.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Throughout, Ryan’s leadership of EFCO was unbounded and today over 50 companies are members of EFCO. We talked about creating millions of dollars of philanthropic contributions through the success of companies in Colorado over the next few decades. Today’s gift represents the largest to date.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2021

Create clarity and alignment across the leadership team and the entire organization Provide a straightforward way to communicate to all stakeholders Give the leadership team more control over the destiny of the company Explain a clear and data-driven plan on how to build a long-term and sustainable business.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Then, the CEO and the leadership get to allocate the bonus to each person on a direct performance basis at the end of the year. Individual bonuses based on the discretion of the leadership team that add up across the company to the company bonus pool. Even better, consider using equity compensation as the bonus.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

He was on the Salesforce.com leadership team until he left to start High Alpha in 2015. While Scott’s attributes could be for any leader, they are particularly relevant to SaaS CEOs given the dynamic of how high-growth SaaS companies – and great leadership teams – need to work to scale. Start with the end in mind.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

I’m incredibly proud of the hard work of the many volunteers at Energize Colorado and the leadership of Wendy Lea who helped get this up and running. And, the Energize Colorado Gap Fund Executive Committee, under the leadership of Kent Thiry , is amazing to see in action.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This is often an acknowledgment that we need to add a few experienced people to the leadership team. Are you systematically and continuously addressing your weaknesses as an individual, leadership team, and company? The CEO has to drive this. But, in the absence of them, the talk generally continues, without action.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Under the leadership and guidance of Cathy Hawley, VP of People, the company brought in six women in January 2015, four of whom were hired. The company’s CTO, Andy Sautins, came up with the idea of an internship program aimed at women who were interested in returning to work after a career break.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2012

Ray Jefferson, Leadership Consultant. Paul Berberian, Orbotix. Paul Ford, SoftLayer. Paul Laurence, Cooley. Phillip Dyer, Broughton Advisory Group. Porter Montgomery, Category One. Rami Essaid, Distil. Richard Moxley, Razor’s Edge Ventures. Rob Painter, Razor’s Edge Ventures. Sean Stone, Silicon Valley Bank. Shai Goldman, Silicon Valley Bank.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2013

Now – members of feeder organizations can play a leadership role, but in the absence of a critical mass of entrepreneurs, the startup community won’t ever develop into anything meaningful. I was interviewed recently in MIT Technology Review in an article titled It’s Up to You, Entrepreneurs.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In the past few years, under the leadership of Carl Schramm , the Kauffman Foundation has reasserted itself as the most significant organization thinking about, researching, and advocating for entrepreneurship as part of its mission to accelerate entrepreneurship in America.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 13, 2017

This will allow them to retain their H-1B status and thus remain in the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

We address issues of leadership, motivation, morals, creativity, culture, strategy, conflict, and knowledge. In business and entrepreneurship literature, inspiration is sometimes more helpful than instruction. Though there is plenty of how-to information in this book, we aim to give you food for thought from a different perspective.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

After building up our leadership in this area, we formally established this initiative with Brad at the helm in 2008. 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.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

I appreciate Aaron and John’s leadership enormously. In an attempt to eliminate any friction associated with a decision for these 62 businesses to join the Boulder Chamber, Amy and I decided to underwrite their memberships for a year.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 12, 2021

A critical learning about a company’s leadership is whether or not employees trust and respect their senior-most manager. I learned this lesson the hard way running a very decentralized business with 70 offices in 17 countries at Aquent. Yet, asking this question directly often doesn’t get a great answer.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Each one took a ton of work from the leadership team. I have 14 other stories from the companies in our portfolio that I’m responsible for. My partners have another 50+. Each one is different.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2020

First of all, we can’t begin to tell you how impressed we’ve been with the leadership that you have all exhibited over these last several weeks. These are very challenging times both personally and professionally and these are the moments where true leadership is demonstrated.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

At Cheezburger, we just added Scott Moore to the leadership team. The early reviews are great, including this detailed one from Tech Cocktail. Matt’s book is already having an impact in my world.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 25, 2021

The book contains 52 individual chapters (hence the “Weekly” in the title) and is divided into five major sections (Strategy, Culture, Free Spirits, Leadership, and Tactics). I wrote it with Dave Jilk, the co-founder of our first company (Feld Technologies, 1987) and one of my closest friends for 38 years.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2020

In addition to his leadership at Foundry, the companies he’s involved in, a number of initiatives in Colorado generally and Longmont specifically, and with his family, my partner Seth Levine has written several excellent posts in around the Covid Crisis. ” Then, he had a post about Decision making in uncertain times.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

If you are the only person in the room, go get other people on your board or leadership team who you trust to give you blunt and constructive feedback before you continue the exercise. Ideally you will now bring in your entire board and your leadership team. Now, stare at it for a while and discuss with whomever is in the room.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 13, 2020

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Leadership is Key – Be a Mentor – Entrepreneurs as Role Models – Key Leadership Characteristics. CHAPTER TWELVE: Simplifying Complexity – The Boulder Thesis – The Rainforest – Applying Systems Thinking – Looking Deeply – Leverage Points.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The team, especially the leadership team, is dynamite. The leadership team is dynamite and very, very tight knit. Management integrate jeremy bloom leader leadership management victim' ” The core of the company is strong. The customer base is incredible. The technology and products are very deep. The Q4 pipeline is solid.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 13, 2020

Fortitude : Providing the thought leadership Colorado needs to increase inclusivity, help small businesses remain competitive, and lead the nation in innovation. Financial Access : EC’s Gap Fund (launching at the end of July) is a $25m+ fund that mixes grants and low-interest loans to assist rural, women, and BIPOC-owned businesses.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

About four years ago, Jerry Colonna and I had a conversation described in his book Reboot : Leadership and the Art of Growing Up where I said, “I’m no longer striving.” My internal perspective is unchanged, but in the last year, it has surfaced much more clearly.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 8, 2020

Sustained leadership to address each crisis – over the long term – is required. The four crises that Covid has amplified (so far) are health, economic, mental health, and racial inequality. But they are not the only crises we are dealing with (anyone remember gender inequity, especially in tech, or #MeToo?).

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2018

If you have this conversation with your leadership team (or are on a leadership team having this conversation) and are threatening (or feel threatened), you are missing the point. At the top of this list is making sure you have the right leadership team and they are functioning in a highly effective way.

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