Feld Thoughts

MAY 14, 2020

If you recognize Meru Health , it’s because I wrote about it in January as part of my explanation of Freestyle’s Leadership on Mental Health. Freestyle is one of our 32 partner funds (where we are LPs) and most of our new direct investing activity is in conjunction with one of our partner funds.

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

Any company that aspires to maintain a leadership position needs to position itself to exploit these two macro trends. Department of Commerce & the Minority Business Development Agency, between 2002 and 2007, diverse-owned firms outpaced the growth of non-diverse firms in gross receipts and employment. According to the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2019

Among his passions, Genovese is also concerned about land conservation, and has partnered with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection with the mission to protect ecotourism land and waterscapes of several Florida state parks. Genovese also dedicates his time and resources to supporting Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

While the value of diverse teams and women in leadership are relatively new topics in the business world, the field of gender lens investment is even newer. No uniform metrics or standardized criteria currently exist to compare actual fund portfolios to determine gender impact in terms of women’s leadership profile.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 tips for entrepreneurs on working with a partner - [link]. 10 tips for entrepreneurs on working with a partner - [link]. US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

In 2007, launched “America’s Giving” challenge with Facebook and Parade magazine. We look for leadership, collaboration, and innovation. Connect with our partners, e.g., Derek Holt. Now that we have 50+ partners, we want to scale. If you’re at a large company, partner with us. The White House also a partner.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Since then, his leadership of the Fund has allowed several African startups to access capital, mentorship and acceleration services. Sam Gichuru CEO at nailab.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2019

Today, Techstars announced a new initiative called Techstars Studio which will allow Techstars to source new company concepts from Techstars alumni founders, community leaders, venture capitalists, mentors, and corporate partners. The first Techstars Studio will be in Boulder, just like the first Techstars accelerator was in 2007.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

In this spirit, one of the key organizations my partners at Foundry Group have helped create and nurture is Pledge 1%. In 2007, we were a founding member in the predecessor organization to Pledge 1%, called Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (or EFCO). And, the companies that have pledged 1% globally is remarkable.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Leadership and Managing >. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. But in 2007, after Jumpstarts success, he decided to get serious.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

I started Ignite Social Media in 2007 after working in a mid-sized regional ad agency. In the field I was in, I believed I was much better at what I was doing than the folks in a leadership position, and had felt that way for a number of jobs in a row and something had to change. Photo Credit: Jim Tobin. Photo Credit: Rodger Roeser.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2019

If you hung around me during the 2007 – 2010 time period when I was on the Zynga board, you would have heard me talk with amazement at how easy it was to manipulate people into spending huge amounts of their time tending their virtual farm on FarmVille. All of this happened a decade ago. The book is riveting.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. Hamas is a radical islamic terror movement, which took charge of Gaza in 2007, a year after Israel unilaterally withdrew its settlers. Maybe this was a wake up call for all of us, especially for our political leadership.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Run & Grow Run and Grow Your Business Home Human Resources Leadership Innovation Growth Strategies Business Management Travel Innovation Play Video Docstocs Jason Nazar on Fostering Innovation (Video). July 31, 2007 |. Market value doesn't equal the sum of sweat equity invested by you and your partners. Jump to Comments.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

For over a decade, I heard and made happy talk from two directions – that of the investor in a startup and that of the partner of a big company that was looking to work with startups. That we were building an ecosystem. That we’d do all kinds of vague and unspecified things together in the name of innovation.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

Its leadership team leverages weekly data to monitor and drive growth for CareerPlug, however, its operations and finance teams were previously spending between four and six hours every week re-creating the same report to monitor the organization’s most critical business metrics. and Canada.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. We were basically emailing Excel workbooks back and forth to our bank partners every day.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

CEO and Founder of Likeable Local, Dave Kerpen is the father of 2 beautiful girls, husband to an amazing business partner, and friend to many. Dave is a Venture Partner at Gen Y Capital Partners an early-stage venture firm, which is leveraging Gen Y to support Gen Y. Corporate Partners . Show Links.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, and present. After 2007, his letters became easier to read, even though Amazon grew more complex over time. But it, it has to come from somewhere and, and that's what leadership is. Subject verb object.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2020

I’ll tell you, I mean, he’s been my broadcast partner for better part of 10 years and I still haven’t had a bad day with him. Joel Goldberg: Yeah, better than his partner. We’re obviously going to talk about some of the leadership and culture stuff that you’re working on these days.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2018

We are significant LPs in the fund and my partner Lindel is joining the PSL advisory board. I was part of the championing of Windows NT, regularly suggesting to the leadership at AmeriData that we needed to get on the NT train. When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we knew that Seattle would be a key geography for us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Ultimately, the company partnered with the City of Los Angeles , and as Eren recalls, "seven days after the original handshake and launch into a scheduling website, we helped launch Dodger Stadium, which was the single largest mass vaccination site in the country." They pivoted to monitoring patients for COVID, then testing.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Greylock Partners · Brian Chesky | People-First Capitalism. What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

At Coremetrics, I had to use mainframes and dumb terminals, clients and servers, the credit card industry, and any other analogy we could think of when explaining our idea to prospective investors, customers, and partners. The iPhone wasn’t out yet (that was 2007). Facebook partnered with us and keynoted one of our Client Summits.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Today’s Corner Office is with John Lilly , a partner at Greylock Partners , is titled Simplify the Message, and Repeat Often. Under the question “Early leadership lessons for you?” When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007 we took over 100 first meetings. Otherwise keep it static.”

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO must have a high degree of professional integrity – there will be times when the CTO will be the only person that the senior leadership team can turn to for an unbiased and well-grounded assessment of a potentially valuable new technology. ► 2007. (4). ▼ February. (2). PCI DSS Class Thoughts.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 11, 2010

Mr. Parra is a partner and co-founder of Daylight Partners, which is a group of investors who mostly share a background at Dell. Ro retired from Dell in 2007, and previously held roles at Grid and Radio Shack. Tags: Consumer austin csidentity daylight partners. CrunchBase Information. CSIdentity. Daylight Ventures.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

If the business value is known, measured and high, and the implementation is in the expensive/risky category then technical leadership needs to regroup on a strategy. Technology leadership need to consider build/buy/partner options. ► 2007. (25). ► November. (4). ► October. (2). ► September. (4).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. Founded in 2007, Percello provides innovative and customized solutions that address the key business and technological challenges of equipment vendors in the emerging Femtocell market.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

She wraps up TEDGlobal 2007 opining on what they all mean for business-minded Africans and what still needs doing to stimulate their minds. Even the entrepreneurial with absolutely squat for musical ability or knowledge may still glean excellent leadership advice from six amazing conductors. Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Greylock Partners · Brian Chesky | People-First Capitalism. What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

” Mr. Slywotzky is an “author of several books on profitability and growth” and currently a partner at the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. In the 1990s the U.S. economy created a net 22 million jobs, or 2.2 million a year.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Currently, there are nearly 10 million women-owned businesses, up from about 8 million in 2007, which generate $1.6 Making sure you see friends, your spouse or romantic partner and family on a regular basis, so you don’t lose your life as you’re building your future. Peers can be very helpful. Don’t forget to reward yourself.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC. At Foundry Group, our significant exits (at least 10x capital returned) since we raised our first fund in 2007 include AdMeld, Zynga, MakerBot, and Gnip.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

If you don’t hear anything else I’m saying in this presentation, remember this, an unsupportive spouse can kill a business faster than a bad marketing plan, so you want to make sure that your spouse or partner is bought into what you are doing. You know this about yourself, get a partner, do yourself a favor.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2011

Leadership, the kind that’s drawn from deed and word, the kind that understands that the best way to get more is to want more for others, is inspirational. Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.

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