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AUGUST 29, 2013

I’m spending the new two days filming the content for a MOOC on raising venture capital. The content is based on my book with Jason titled Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist. The post NovoED MOOC on Raising Venture Capital appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

Fellows originate and execute startup investments under the supervision of HBCUvc’s investment committee, a team of experienced venture capital investors. The fund is managed by university students participating in HBCUvc’s Fellowship programs.

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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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JANUARY 6, 2013

I’d heard from a number of VC friends that it was really good, but the idea of watching a documentary on the history of the creation of the venture capital industry doesn’t sound like an awesome Saturday night movie choice. If you are a VC, or aspire to be a VC, do yourself a favor and watch Something Ventured right now.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This quarter they interviewed me as part of it on Quarterly VC Update: Brad Feld on the State of Venture Capital Investing. At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. Each quarter Cooley does a VC market update. It’s the same.

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MARCH 27, 2018

Now that we are 13 years into the accelerator journey, an accelerator is a well-established construct that is part of the global startup ecosystem. Accelerating Startups: The Seed Accelerator Phenomenon , Hochberg and Cohen, 3/14. Accelerators and the Regional Supply of Venture Capital Investment , Fehder and Hochberg, 9/14.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I’m a big fan of Jason Calacanis’ show This Week In Startups. Earlier in the morning I read Jason’s post on LinkedIn titled The Great Venture Capital Rotation. I think it was originally titled “The End of Venture Capital Sort Of” (based on the URL). Dynamite stuff. Get yours today.

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JUNE 28, 2016

He has a vision and the experience to create a non-partisan organization to engage and educate people, especially policymakers in government, regarding the critical importance of entrepreneurs and startups to innovation, economic growth, and job creation. Incentivize Experienced Talent to Consider Joining Growing Startups.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Matt and I were on the FeedBurner board together and he’s got a powerful connection between LA and Chicago – another city with an incredibly thriving startup community. While they invest nationally, they have deep roots in both cities and are key players in the respective startup communities, along with the cities at large.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

By the time I co-founded what became Mobius Venture Capital, Softbank (our sponsor – at the time we were called Softbank Venture Capital) was the key investor in Yahoo, E*trade, and a number of other large US-based Internet companies. Then I realized that the big company has no fundamental obligation to the startup.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

I’m working on a book with Mahendra Ramsinghani called “Startup Boards” where we are trying to provide clear best practices for how the boards of startup companies should work. You may recognize Mahendra’s name – he wrote The Business of Venture Capital which I reviewed recently.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

DEIS will present practical solutions for startup teams, accelerators, ecosystem builders, investors, and big tech companies. and I’m providing a copy of my newest book The Startup Community Way for free to all attendees. Tickets provide access to the entire event and include a copy of the following books.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Draper III ) has written a gem called The Startup Game. And William III started several firms, including Draper & Johnson, Sutter Hill Ventures , Draper Richards , and Draper Internationa l. I like the practitioner stories best, followed closely by autobiographies. Bill Draper (officially William H.

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MAY 13, 2021

Before I met Brad in person, I had known about him because he’s pretty much startup-famous from his books and from co-founding Techstars, but I didn’t know much about Foundry Group. After getting through all my questions about his book, we ended up talking about entrepreneurship, technology, and venture capital.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

You will even find out where I learned that “even pigs can fly in a hurricane” around minute six.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In 2000, I invested via Mobius Venture Capital in The Feld Group and joined the board. In addition to helping me understand a number of fundamental things about technology at scale, I got exposed to the complexity of very large organizations, both from the top down and outside in. This took our relationship to a new level.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Today, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced the StartUp Visa Act of 2010. The group of us behind the Startup Visa project have been working closely with key members of each Senators’ staff on this and we are incredibly pleased with the proposed bill. Tags: Startup Visa.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

The companies founded by these entrepreneurs employ 940 people and have raised over $500 million in venture capital. Over the past five years, As of today, 66 Initial H-1B visas have been approved with 100% visa success rate. Imagine if we had this level of activity in all 50 states?

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

So, Jason and I started talking more about things we could do to positively impact the Detroit startup community and looped the Techstars gang into the conversation. The local Detroit startup community engaged very powerfully in the idea. David Cohen, David Brown, and the team at Techstars grabbed it and ran with it.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Some are major contributors to their startup communities. As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

While it started as an experiment with one accelerator in Boulder, we now have about 50 accelerators annually around the world funding 500 startups a year. David Cohen and I came out with the 2nd Edition of Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup. So he wrote it.

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DECEMBER 18, 2011

For now, the title is “ Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City.” Venture Capital Matters. I’m deep into writing my latest book. ” I’m open to different titles – if you’ve got ideas just put them in the comments. The Power of Apprenticeship.

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JULY 12, 2014

Entrepreneur: I’m amazingly appreciative to short, polite “no thank you’s” I don’t know whether VCs think that’s too much work, or whether they want to leave open the possibility of the “must have been caught in my spam filter” excuse when the startup becomes a rocket in 2 years?

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

Every day I’m reading about a new thing in the startup world. Strategic investment is in vogue again, with virtually every large public company trying to figure out how to fund startups. Entrepreneurship cycles investing Venture Capital' Remember it. And make better decisions and choices the next time around.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Announcing the Greater Colorado Venture Fund ! I am proud to share that the Colorado Venture Capital Authority (VCA), in conjunction with the Office of Economic Growth and International Trade (OEDIT), has selected the Greater Colorado Venture Fund to steward the state’s rural venture capital allocation.

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JUNE 27, 2013

And then reflect on the post from the anonymous entrepreneur that I highlighted yesterday titled My Startup has 30 Days to Live. Venture Capital equity mendelson ownership sale valuation wilson' If you want another example, take a look at my partner Seth’s post from last year titled I’m getting sick of the b t.

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MAY 6, 2019

I’ve been involved in Return Path as an investor since 2001 when Return Path and Veripost merged as part of a funding done by Sutter Hill (Greg Sands), Flatiron Partners (Fred Wilson), and Mobius Venture Capital (me). As Fred says, “entrepreneurship and startup investing is a long game.

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. Today, it’s clear to me that business plans for startup companies are a historical artifact that represented the best approach at the time to define a business for potential investors. Attend a Startup Weekend.

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APRIL 18, 2019

I still make a lot of mistakes (that’s that nature of venture capital, and of life in general), but I like to believe that I’m a much more effective board member than I was 25 years ago. That said, I still have my bad days and walk out of a board meeting feeling unsettled for one reason or another.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

I was around at the beginning, spending a day a month in Kansas City with the Kauffman Foundation as an entrepreneur-in-residence when the program was originally created by a team at the Kauffman Foundation to identify, develop, and network the next generation of global leaders in the venture capital industry using a two-year apprenticeship program.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

” It’s brilliant, well executed, and modeled after the Startup Visa movement that a number of us have been trying to get started in the US since 2009. I continue to be really discouraged by the US government activity around the Startup Visa movement, and more specifically around immigration reform as it applies to entrepreneurs.

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MARCH 12, 2014

I asked Eliot to write a short post about how he’s feeling and thinking about the category of “startup fiction” now that the book is out in the wild and he’s getting some great feedback. That’s why I love Brad and Amy’s frank discussions in Startup Life. We’ve worked for a startup. We go to SXSW.

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JUNE 13, 2014

As Ars Technica summarizes in New study suggests patent trolls really are killing startups : Turns out there is a very real, and very negative, correlation between patent troll lawsuits and the venture capital funding that startups rely on.

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MAY 13, 2013

The Deming Center also partners closely with Silicon Flatirons and other CU organizations to put on events such as the New Venture Challenge, Productive Collisions, and annually hosts the regional Venture Capital Investment Competition for MBA students. Jobs cu deming center Entrepreneurship'

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OCTOBER 7, 2012

Early this morning I got a note from Allen Morgan pointing to a blog he wrote titled Entrepreneurs: For Venture Capital Pitches, Say What Your Startup “Does” not What It “Is” It nicely reinforces the point that active voice wins over passive voice.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

It’s not quite halloween, but our friends at SVB are hosting an event for me and Jason Mendelson in Boulder on Thursday night to discuss our new book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist. There might be halloween candy and I’m certain there will be some tricks as well as other treats.

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MARCH 21, 2014

If you are interested in learning about Venture Deals , my partner Jason Mendelson and I created a course with the Kauffman Fellows Academy on NovoEd which is running for the first time from 3/31/14 – 5/19/14. If you want to sign up for the course , use the discount code of “ventureds” to get 20% off the price.

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