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JULY 1, 2020

My new book The Startup Community Way: Evolving and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem is coming out this month ( pre-order it here.). At the same time, the 2nd edition of my book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City is also coming out ( pre-order it here.). Come join the Startup Community community !

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JULY 25, 2013

When I saw it, I asked Zack if I could post it on my blog as an ode to all startups. The post Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Entrepreneurship drupal frontier pantheon silent killers startups' From: Zachary Rosen. To: Pantheon Staff. Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013 2:19:42 AM.

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MAY 8, 2023

Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, recently released its latest report, The Untold Toll: The Impact of stress on the well-being of startup founders and CEOs. The startup grind takes a major toll on a founder’s mental health. It’s the largest study of its kind.

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MARCH 20, 2018

Jason is returning to Detroit to sprinkle some of the wisdom he has learned along the way with the Detroitpreur startup community at Bamboo Detroit on April 5th from 6-8 pm. Startup Grind Detroit is one of over 350+ chapters around the world, holding Fireside Chats with notable entrepreneurs and bringing startup communities together.

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JULY 13, 2020

West Slope Startup Week (WSSW) launched last week (this year in a virtual format) — a full month of online programming open to businesses across the state. This is, in part, why mentorship is so valuable to me and integral to EC and Techstars’ startup week programming.

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JUNE 2, 2021

CU’s Silicon Flatirons Center Startup Summer is back! Startup Summer provides a fantastic experience for college-age students and interns interested in entrepreneurship and the Front Range emerging company scene. Startup Summer is a free offering that enhances your company’s internship program.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

Chris Dixon had an excellent post yesterday titled Recruiting programmers to your startup. The post, and the comments, are full of super useful stuff that every entrepreneur should read carefully.

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APRIL 26, 2023

Chris Heivly released Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide. I encourage you to get Chris’s book if you are a startup community builder or are interested in startup communities. The post Book: Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide appeared first on Brad Feld.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Denver Startup Week , the largest startup week in the world, happens next week. Tuesday, September 15th from 11:00-12 noon MT – Individual Author Showcase: ‘The Startup Community Way’ with Brad Feld. Come join us for some of these, or any of the other hundreds of events at Denver Startup Week 2020.

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MAY 3, 2011

So, several local companies pitched in some bucks and the organizers of Boulder Startup Week are buying plane tickets for five people to come out between May 18th and May 22nd. If you don’t know about Boulder Startup Week, take a look at the killer agenda. Boulder is full of software engineers, but we need more. A lot more.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I have a chapter in Startup Communities that uses CU Boulder – and specifically Silicon Flatirons – as an example of a much better way than the traditional approach (circa 2012) for a university to engage with the startup community. He continually strives to connect the university and surrounding startup community.

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JULY 8, 2020

If you are working on your first startup, this is the book for you. My friends @willherman and @rajatbhargava put their hearts and souls into the creation of the first edition of The Startup Playbook, and it paid off. The book is Will and Raj’s how-to guide for building your startup from the ground up.

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JULY 28, 2020

My new book with Ian Hathaway, The Startup Community Way , is officially out. I’ve now written seven of them, all about startups and entrepreneurship. Some of the inspiration for The Startup Community Way came from Eric Ries. This was analogous to what happened with Startup Communities.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Andy Dunn , who I only know indirectly, wrote an important book titled Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind. The post Book: Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind appeared first on Brad Feld. While it covers the story of Andy’s company, Bonobos, it’s really about mental health and entrepreneurship.

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MAY 22, 2019

It also became apparent, almost right away, that startups had a huge disadvantage over larger companies that had significant U.S. Startups should pay attention, and act accordingly. If you are a hardware startup and have either seen, or figured out, a different approach, I’d love to hear about it. lobbying activities.

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JULY 13, 2020

My new book with Ian Hathaway, The Startup Community Way , comes out on 7/28. PART I: INTRODUCTION TO STARTUP COMMUNITIES. CHAPTER TWO: Why Startup Communities Exist – What Entrepreneurs Do – The External Environment Networks over Hierarchies – Networks of Trust – Density and Agglomeration Quality of Place.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I find things like the Johns Hopkins CSSE data set and coronavirus map to be much more interesting than these articles so I sent an email out to our hardware companies last night to see what they were hearing and thinking to collect some quantitative data from startups. John Hopkins CSSE snapshot 2/6/20 @ 7:33am ET.

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JULY 14, 2020

Seven years ago this week, I posted about a new book in our Startup Revolution series called Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business , by my friend Matt Blumberg, then CEO of email marketing company Return Path in the Foundry portfolio. I have given or recommended Startup CEO to hundreds of CEOs over the years.

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JUNE 7, 2019

Jasper Nathaniel recently wrote a long, detailed post titled When Your Startup Fails. I spent the day yesterday in Grand Junction at Techstars Startup Week West Slope. After a full day of meetings, events, and talks, I ended up at dinner with a half-dozen CEOs of startups in the area (Grand Junction, Carbondale, Eagle, and Telluride.)

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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. . She came up to me after I gave my talk and told me that her company wouldn’t exist without Startup Weekend and Techstars.

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MARCH 1, 2019

I participated in a one hour Crowdcast yesterday with Techstars and 43 North about How to Build a Successful Startup Ecosystem in your City. Some of the thoughts from my upcoming book The Startup Community Way are in the hour, along with a bunch of things Techstars is doing around this initiative. powered by Crowdcast.

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MAY 25, 2016

On my vacation a few weeks ago, I read Chris Schroeder ‘s book Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. I had a copy of Startup Rising on my Kindle from a while ago but had never read it. The post Book: Startup Rising appeared first on Feld Thoughts. It was outstanding.

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JUNE 2, 2021

CU’s Silicon Flatirons Center Startup Summer is back! Startup Summer provides a fantastic experience for college-age students and interns interested in entrepreneurship and the Front Range emerging company scene. Startup Summer is a free offering that enhances your company’s internship program.

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MARCH 25, 2019

We are with Ian Hathaway (my co-author of an upcoming book titled The Startup Community Way) finishing up the draft of the book. Recently, Ian and Richard Florida did a large study that culminated in an extensive report on the Rise of the Global Startup City. Amy and I are in Knoxville, Tennessee all week. So, we will see.

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APRIL 17, 2017

Engine Advocacy , Y Combinator , and Techstars are organizing a letter opposing these actions, signed by startups, investors, accelerators, incubators, and entrepreneurs. Help us send a message from startups and entrepreneurs that his rumored action to undermine net neutrality is not ok. Congress is lining up behind him.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

But there is a trend that feels inevitable to me: “Startups everywhere.” When the phrase “Startup Communities” started to become mainstream around 2012, I made the strong assertion that you could create a startup community in any city with at least 100,000 people. Don’t lose sight of that.

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JULY 18, 2018

While we’ve been collaborating on Startup Communities 2 (which we are now calling The Startup Community Way), which will come out at the “end-of-the-year-ish,” having dinner was a delight and reminded me how much I like him. There is an increasing number of “ binary star ” startup communities.

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MAY 16, 2014

As Boulder Startup Week 2014 comes to an end, I have been reflecting on the power of startup communities today. When I wrote Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City , I made some assertions about how to build startup communities and what the impact of them would be on society. 501 cities.

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JULY 9, 2013

Pre-orders for the new book Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business by Matt Blumberg, CEO of Return Path, are available now on Amazon. Matt has the entire outline of Startup CEO up on his blog. I think Startup CEO is going to be a must read for any CEO. Do Matt a solid and go pre-order it today.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

So it was an incredible honor to interview Jim for 45 minutes last week at the Startup Phenomenon event about Startup Communities. We spent the time applying the ideas from Jim’s books and research to the idea of Startup Communities. Startup Phenomenon | Brad Feld talks with Jim Collins from 23rd Studios on Vimeo.

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MARCH 27, 2019

If you are New York-based and interested in entrepreneurship around financial services, consider participating in Techstars Startup Weekend New York: Financial Inclusion on April 5th to April 7th at Rise on 23rd Street. When Startup Weekend first began in 2007 , it was primarily based on geography.

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MAY 9, 2018

Recently, he put together a bunch of great blog posts on his site under a heading Startup Hacks. 7 Calendar Tips for Startups. The post Alex Iskold Startup Hacks appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I’m a huge Alex fan and love his writing. Why Founder-Market-Fit is so Important. 8 Tips for Dealing with Competitors.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

UP Global just released a great new white paper titled Fostering a Startup and Innovation Ecosystem. As you might know, I’m on the board of UP Global and think they are doing amazing things for startup communities around the world. Fostering a Startup and Innovation Ecosystem from UP Global.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

My newest book, Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors , will ship at the end of the month. Between now and Sunday, if you pre-order a copy of Startup Boards on Amazon , you will be entered into a random drawing. If you need immediate gratification, the Kindle version of Startup Boards is already shipping.

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JUNE 26, 2019

Colorado Public Television takes an in-depth look at Colorado’s thriving startup scene in its new 5-part season called Street Level Startups. The post A Short Recent History of the Colorado Startup Community appeared first on Feld Thoughts. And, plenty of other stuff. I love living and working here.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

The post Implicit Gender Bias in Startup Funding appeared first on Feld Thoughts. By flashing the same light on every start-up’s potential for gains and losses, you enable all deserving start-ups to shine and you maximize returns in the process.” ” Her talk is only 15 minutes long and well worth it.

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MAY 1, 2019

The second one is on Validating Your Startup Idea which based on the book Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job which I wrote with Sean Wise. Evaluating your startup idea from Brad Feld on Validating Your Startup Idea by Brad Feld. Raising venture capital from Brad Feld on Raising Capital by Brad Feld.

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