Feld Thoughts

APRIL 5, 2017

In the fall of 2007, my friend Phil Weiser, Executive Director of CU Boulder’s Silicon Flatirons Center, convened 25 leaders from CU Boulder and the Boulder / Denver startup community. I got involved as a judge in 1993 and was active through 1997 with occasional visits to the finals in subsequent years when I was around Boston.

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Denver Boston Community Startup 86

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I have the opportunity to build bridges from NYC to Nairobi, from Dhaka to Denver, from Silicon Valley to Singapore. People ask me if innovation can flourish in places like Africa and my response is that I encounter innovation everywhere there, when people are forced to innovate to survive, often with scarce resources.

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Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

Feld Thoughts

MAY 31, 2012

If I’m driving to the Denver airport, I can guarantee that at least one time during the call I will drop and have to start over at step #1. I was involved in the creation of reservationless audioconferencing, which was pioneered by Raindance (I was a seed investor) in 1997.

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Audio Denver SMS Database 143

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

I spent the day yesterday doing Denver Startup Week stuff. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. ” I thought about it for a second and responded that I wasn’t sure the assertion was correct. The name kind of says it all.

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San Francisco Denver Venture Capital Boston 70

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. He lives and works in Denver, Colorado. In short, people loved their product and Rogue Wave prospered accordingly. The problem was, Rogue Wave loved their product too much. When everyone took notice of Java and abandoned C++ in droves, Rogue Wave’s revenues plummeted.

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Java Product Software Developers Software Development 66