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As a side note if you’ve never been to Alaska it is truly one of the most beautiful, spectacular and awe-inspiring places I’ve visited. So we’re off to Alaska. Why does everybody always ask that when you tell them you’re going to Alaska?!? MORE
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Missouri is our fourth state to go live following Massachusetts, Colorado, and Alaska. On September 15, 2016, UMSL Accelerate joined the Global EIR network and began taking applications for its international accelerator program, Gateway Accelerate. Today is the last day to apply , so if you are considering it, don’t wait. The goal of this program is to contribute to St. MORE
I thought I’d rest and work through it during July when I was in Alaska but that didn’t work out either. I’ve now put together eight great weeks of running in a row. On Sunday, I finally had a long run to town (from Eldorado Springs to Boulder). This has been a long tradition of mine and Amy’s – I run to town early in the morning and she drives in later, we have brunch with friends, and then get massages in the afternoons. MORE
There are some good gardening ones in the agriculture category) Free Sample Site (another site that keeps updated free sample lists for you) Free Beautiful Alaska Travel Book 40 Free Prints from York Photo (sign up and put them in your account while the deal is still good) Related articles Thirteen Freebies Top Five Freebie Offers Top Five Free Deals. Some of these have a limit so if the link no longer works then the freebie is gone (I will try to keep up with the broken links). MORE
I expect I’ll be spending plenty more there soon, including a few next week on my way to Alaska. We recently invested in a Seattle company called BigDoor Media. The founder/CEO Keith Smith wrote a wonderful love story about the deal which was picked up by the WSJ VC Dispatch in a post titled A Summer Romance Between Founder And Venture Capitalist ? Yes, I’ve fallen in love (in a very non-sexual way) with Keith, his co-founder Jeff Malek, and BigDoor. MORE
Native American/Alaska. Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( link].) MORE
Amy and I have been up at our house in Homer, Alaska for the last two weeks. Tags: Work-Life Balance alaska homer We try to spent every July up here – something we’ve tried to do every year for the past decade (we missed in 2007 and 2009.) MORE
But you can never really take the girl out of Alaska. 20 years. Just amazing. You are my favorite person on this planet. Here are some pictures from the past 20 years. Fashion has clearly never been my strong sense. Fortunately, my t-shirts are rubbing off on you. And your class and grace is rubbing off on me. And one never really does leave Wellesley, does one? And some things never change. I love you. The post Happy 20th Anniversary Amy appeared first on Feld Thoughts. MORE
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I was at a Nima board meeting today and was asked by a new friend on the team about my link to Homer, Alaska. The post Homer, Alaska and the Super Bowl appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Places alaska homer mcdonalds MORE
While I stopped writing production code in the early 1990’s, I still fuck around with something each summer when I’m in Alaska (in past years it has been Perl, Ruby, and PHP.) MORE
Ever since reading Jack London, I’ve wanted to go to Alaska. Looks like July is the time to go as its Alaska Startup week and there are events throughout the state, from lean startup workshops to pitch competitions. 2017 is the Year of Innovation in Alaska. MORE
Alaska had a plan like this in effect for 36 years with the oil dividend. The Republican governor of Alaska in 1982 asked people of Alaska, ‘who would you rather get the money: the government, who is just going to screw it up? Or you, the people of Alaska?’, MORE
July in Alaska helps (although this summer has a fun, European twist). It’s Sunday morning. Take a deep breath. It’s summer time. Go for a walk. Or a run. Play with your family. Take a nap this afternoon. Read a book. Go to a movie. Chill. Last week, I had two close friends tell me some version of “I’m too busy.&# One insightfully said “I have no time these days. I’m doing too much.&# MORE
Her family are our neighbors in Homer, Alaska and we’ve known Jessica since she was 12. Amy and I collect contemporary art. We often make friends with the artists who we collect. Occasionally people who are our friends become artists. Jessica Schallock fits into this category. We’ve been friends with Jessica for a decade. We’ve watched, with much joy, as she’s grown into an amazingly talented young women. One of those talents is art. MORE
I’ve got a two board meeting day tomorrow ( Impinj and Gist ) as I gear up to head to Alaska for the month of July. MORE
During one of the long conversations we had at the time about our future, we started talking about calling it quits and moving to Homer, Alaska. We didn’t know anyone there and I didn’t have any business there, but it was a lot more centrally located in the US than Homer, Alaska. MORE
Amy and I ordinarily spend the month of July at our house in Homer, Alaska. We decided to do it this summer and we turned our month in Alaska into two months in Europe. Rosabeth Moss Kanter has an excellent post up on the HBR Blog titled Should Leaders Go on Vacation? Recently, I’ve seen plenty of commentary in the popular press (especially Fox News articles) about the inappropriateness of leaders taking vacation. MORE
I’ve read some of it in the past and tried one summer in Alaska to get through his epic book A New Kind of Science (with very little success, although I read a bunch of science fiction and all the Barry Eisler John Rain books that summer.). When I think of geniuses who inspire me, Stephen Wolfram is near the top of the list. I’ve never met him but have followed him from a distance since I was introduced to Mathematica in grad school in the late 1980s. MORE
The awesome Alaska Brown Bear above is the photo I used (from an Alaska trip in 2004) and it’s now hanging on the wall in my office next to my couch. If you walk in my office, you’ll notice a lot of art on the walls. Amy and I are huge art collectors and are always on a quest for new and beautiful things. MORE
Wasilla, Alaska. Most famous for being headquarters for the Iditarod Sled-dog race, Wasilla is also the home of Alaska’s most visible celebrity, former 2008 Vice-Presidential hopeful and governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. MORE
He believes using the Surge strategy will help him since he is in a hyper niched business in Alaska and is struggling to grow. Greg and his wife Kim have been operating Magpie Clothing Exchange as a storefront in Palmer Alaska, and online worldwide since 2014. Greg is lifelong entrepreneur with a small 25 year break between projects, and lead vocalist of Alaska’s most middle aged punk band. Also Available On. Show Summary. MORE
On the summer solstice in 1993 we went to the top of Ester Dome in Fairbanks, Alaska and exchanged vows. Amy and I have been married for 18 years. Earlier that day we went to Pay ‘n Save and bought our wedding rings (I think we got six for $1.99). I wrote the word “vows&# on a piece of paper twice, tore it in half, and gave one of the vows to Amy to give to me when we got to the top. MORE
While I have a house in Alaska, I never lived there (that’s where Amy grew up.). Did you know that 28.5714% of the partners at Foundry Group are Texans? Recently, I was asked if I consider myself a Texan. I answered that I grew up in Texas, live in Colorado, was born in Arkansas, and went to school in Massachusetts. I hadn’t really thought about this before I answered the question. While Massachusetts was very good to me, I never felt at home living in Boston or Cambridge. MORE
A week ago I had just gotten home after a month in Homer, Alaska. I was totally chilled out – I worked plenty in July but had very little physical human interaction with anyone other than Amy. I’m sitting here in my Boulder condo today thinking about the entrepreneurial tour de force that was the last six days. I think I interacted with more different people each day than I did cumulatively over the previous 30 days in Homer. MORE
about the time I finished working for the company that bought mine) one of the options for consideration was to retire and move to Homer, Alaska. As exits have been flowing nicely again the past few years, many of the entrepreneurs I work with have experienced their first big exit. I refer to this moment as when you find that you have life changing money in your bank account, which I like to call “f**k you money.” MORE
For much of the last decade, Amy and I have spent the month of July at our house in Homer, Alaska. Amy grew up in Alaska and I have a great love of the place. Every year when we head to Alaska, many people who don’t know us that well say “have a great vacation.&# We’ve built one month away each year in a different location into our annual rhythm which we’ve come to treasure as a key part of our lives. We are trying something different this year. MORE
205 Amy and I just funded all of the unfunded DonorsChoose projects in Alaska as part of the annual DonorsChoose #BestSchoolDay event. In all of the Alaska projects, Aspect Ventures matched our donation. Amy grew up in Alaska and we have a house in Homer, which is what motivated us to support Alaska this year on #BestSchoolDay. The post Funding All Projects on DonorsChoose in Alaska appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Philanthropy #BestSchoolDay alaska donorschoose MORE
While I was swimming that since I was going to be in Alaska for July, I’d just bring my MacBook, my iPhone, and my iPad. Ross (my IT guy) bet me $100 that I’d beg him to ship my Windows desktop to me within a few days of getting to Alaska. My post yesterday titled Rethinking The Laptop resulted in three very specific pieces of feedback followed by me taking one specific action. The feedback was: Dump Outlook. Get a solid state drive. Get a Mac. MORE
Amy grew up in Alaska and we have a house there so I just went and funded all the book projects in Alaska. Amy and I love to read. Growing up, one of my favorite places in the world was the hammock in our backyard with a book. MORE
I won’t be there as Amy and I are hiding in Homer, Alaska for the month, but my mom is coming down from Keystone and I know she’d love to see my friends if you are around. If you are a fan of my mom’s art ( Cecelia Feld ), she’s part of an exhibit at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder called Splash. The opening is this Wednesday July 7th from 6pm to 8pm. MORE
169 I had become comfortable with Seattle the city, Amy and I were spending more time at our house in Alaska (so Seattle was occasionally a stop on the way to Alaska), and I’d started to enjoy the rain. I’m in Seattle for the next few days. I’ve built this trip around Techstars Seattle Demo, a bunch of time at PSL, and a Moz board meeting. Oh – and time with several of our portfolio companies as well as some nice social stuff with long time friends. MORE
We were on vacation in Alaska, hanging out in Fairbanks at the time. We thought briefly about moving to Homer, Alaska but decided instead to buy a house up here and spend a month each summer up here. Lots of people get married on the summer solstice. MORE
She and her four dogs live in beautiful – and remote – Alaska, while she runs a successful business with clients all over the US. WK: We have offices in Sitka, Alaska and Boise, Idaho and we have clients all over the country. MORE
It’s the closest place on earth I’ve been to Alaska, which I love dearly. I’m at Startup Iceland today. I like Iceland – this is the second time I’ve been here. And it’s fun to see and hang out with my friend Bala Kamallakharan. MORE
Geoff Roes, undefeated at the 100-mile distance, an organic chef from Juneau, Alaska. Last night Amy and I watched the movie Unbreakable: The Western States 100. Our friends Pam and Mark Solon gave it to us. It was awesome, powerful, riveting, and inspirational. MORE
We ended up fully funding all the DonorChoose projects in Alaska, Boulder, Longmont, Brighton, Breckenridge, Richardson, and Detroit. Amy grew up in Alaska and we have a house in Homer. When I sat down this morning with Amy she started reading off people who had funded entire cities worth of projects on DonorsChoose this morning. Amy has DonorsChoose in her twitter feed and we quickly figured out what was going on. MORE
And while Mars is a lot more desolate than Homer, Alaska, I disconnected from the human race several times right in the middle of a work week because of the amazingness of this book. The Martian by Andy Weir is the best book I’ve read in a while. I consumed it in the last 24 hours. MORE
Amy and I were originally going to Alaska to look at polar bears but canceled everything after I got sick and did a staycation in Boulder instead. I took last week off the grid for my Q318 vacation. I got at least 10 hours of sleep each day, did a bunch of self-care things (PT, massage, meditate), ran a few times (to the extent that 14-minute miles can be considered running), and read a half dozen books. I’m feeling a lot better. MORE
Over the years, we’ve been personally involved in a number of projects, such as protecting the Anchor River in Anchor Point, Alaska (the town Amy grew up in until she was eight.) The Nature Conservancy and Techstars just announced a partnership to create the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator. Amy and I were part of the public announcement this week in Denver. Both organizations are important to us so it’s a joy to be involved in having them work together. MORE
If you are an official resident of one of these 7 states, you don’t need to file a state tax return for that state: Alaska. Many of us spend a great deal of time worrying about money, and rightfully so. Have you noticed Americans are living longer than ever before? MORE
We were on vacation in Alaska, hanging out in Fairbanks at the time. We thought briefly about moving to Homer, Alaska but decided instead to buy a house up here and spend a month each summer up here. Lots of people get married on the summer solstice. To all of them – including those getting married today – congrats and welcome to the club! MORE
I took my Macbook Pro (an older model from about 18 months ago) up to Alaska, left my Lenovo x300 in Boulder, and went native Mac. On June 20th, I declared that I was going to try A Month of Mac. I’m typing this on my brand new spiffy MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8GB RAM, with a 500GB solid state hard drive. I can’t figure out why I’ve been so stubborn about really switching to the Mac. This is a beautiful computer. MORE
Alaska Related Topics Feld Thoughts
JUNE 14, 2014
During one of the long conversations we had at the time about our future, we started talking about calling it quits and moving to Homer, Alaska. We didn’t know anyone there and I didn’t have any business there, but it was a lot more centrally located in the US than Homer, Alaska.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 29, 2017
Amy and I just funded all of the unfunded DonorsChoose projects in Alaska as part of the annual DonorsChoose #BestSchoolDay event. In all of the Alaska projects, Aspect Ventures matched our donation. Amy grew up in Alaska and we have a house in Homer, which is what motivated us to support Alaska this year on #BestSchoolDay. The post Funding All Projects on DonorsChoose in Alaska appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Philanthropy #BestSchoolDay alaska donorschoose
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 6, 2010
When I opened my daily folder, a beautiful picture of an Aurora Over Alaska graced the front page of APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). Just another reason to love Alaska. Tags: Alaska alaska apod
Feld Thoughts
MAY 31, 2016
I was at a Nima board meeting today and was asked by a new friend on the team about my link to Homer, Alaska. The post Homer, Alaska and the Super Bowl appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Places alaska homer mcdonalds
Feld Thoughts
JULY 17, 2010
Amy and I have been up at our house in Homer, Alaska for the last two weeks. Tags: Work-Life Balance alaska homer We try to spent every July up here – something we’ve tried to do every year for the past decade (we missed in 2007 and 2009.)
Campus Entrepreneurship
JULY 24, 2017
Ever since reading Jack London, I’ve wanted to go to Alaska. Looks like July is the time to go as its Alaska Startup week and there are events throughout the state, from lean startup workshops to pitch competitions. 2017 is the Year of Innovation in Alaska.
Mike Michalowicz
DECEMBER 2, 2013
She and her four dogs live in beautiful – and remote – Alaska, while she runs a successful business with clients all over the US. WK: We have offices in Sitka, Alaska and Boise, Idaho and we have clients all over the country.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 21, 2013
But you can never really take the girl out of Alaska. 20 years. Just amazing. You are my favorite person on this planet. Here are some pictures from the past 20 years. Fashion has clearly never been my strong sense. Fortunately, my t-shirts are rubbing off on you. And your class and grace is rubbing off on me. And one never really does leave Wellesley, does one? And some things never change. I love you. The post Happy 20th Anniversary Amy appeared first on Feld Thoughts.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 20, 2018
While I have a house in Alaska, I never lived there (that’s where Amy grew up.). Did you know that 28.5714% of the partners at Foundry Group are Texans? Recently, I was asked if I consider myself a Texan. I answered that I grew up in Texas, live in Colorado, was born in Arkansas, and went to school in Massachusetts. I hadn’t really thought about this before I answered the question. While Massachusetts was very good to me, I never felt at home living in Boston or Cambridge.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 27, 2015
It’s the closest place on earth I’ve been to Alaska, which I love dearly. I’m at Startup Iceland today. I like Iceland – this is the second time I’ve been here. And it’s fun to see and hang out with my friend Bala Kamallakharan.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 10, 2016
We ended up fully funding all the DonorChoose projects in Alaska, Boulder, Longmont, Brighton, Breckenridge, Richardson, and Detroit. Amy grew up in Alaska and we have a house in Homer. When I sat down this morning with Amy she started reading off people who had funded entire cities worth of projects on DonorsChoose this morning. Amy has DonorsChoose in her twitter feed and we quickly figured out what was going on.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 17, 2018
I had become comfortable with Seattle the city, Amy and I were spending more time at our house in Alaska (so Seattle was occasionally a stop on the way to Alaska), and I’d started to enjoy the rain. I’m in Seattle for the next few days. I’ve built this trip around Techstars Seattle Demo, a bunch of time at PSL, and a Moz board meeting. Oh – and time with several of our portfolio companies as well as some nice social stuff with long time friends.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 29, 2010
I’ve got a two board meeting day tomorrow ( Impinj and Gist ) as I gear up to head to Alaska for the month of July.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Missouri is our fourth state to go live following Massachusetts, Colorado, and Alaska. On September 15, 2016, UMSL Accelerate joined the Global EIR network and began taking applications for its international accelerator program, Gateway Accelerate. Today is the last day to apply , so if you are considering it, don’t wait. The goal of this program is to contribute to St.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 1, 2011
For much of the last decade, Amy and I have spent the month of July at our house in Homer, Alaska. Amy grew up in Alaska and I have a great love of the place. Every year when we head to Alaska, many people who don’t know us that well say “have a great vacation.&# We’ve built one month away each year in a different location into our annual rhythm which we’ve come to treasure as a key part of our lives. We are trying something different this year.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 5, 2010
I won’t be there as Amy and I are hiding in Homer, Alaska for the month, but my mom is coming down from Keystone and I know she’d love to see my friends if you are around. If you are a fan of my mom’s art ( Cecelia Feld ), she’s part of an exhibit at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder called Splash. The opening is this Wednesday July 7th from 6pm to 8pm.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 11, 2011
The awesome Alaska Brown Bear above is the photo I used (from an Alaska trip in 2004) and it’s now hanging on the wall in my office next to my couch. If you walk in my office, you’ll notice a lot of art on the walls. Amy and I are huge art collectors and are always on a quest for new and beautiful things.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 21, 2014
We were on vacation in Alaska, hanging out in Fairbanks at the time. We thought briefly about moving to Homer, Alaska but decided instead to buy a house up here and spend a month each summer up here. Lots of people get married on the summer solstice.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Alaska had a plan like this in effect for 36 years with the oil dividend. The Republican governor of Alaska in 1982 asked people of Alaska, ‘who would you rather get the money: the government, who is just going to screw it up? Or you, the people of Alaska?’,
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 17, 2014
And while Mars is a lot more desolate than Homer, Alaska, I disconnected from the human race several times right in the middle of a work week because of the amazingness of this book. The Martian by Andy Weir is the best book I’ve read in a while. I consumed it in the last 24 hours.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2017
As a side note if you’ve never been to Alaska it is truly one of the most beautiful, spectacular and awe-inspiring places I’ve visited. So we’re off to Alaska. Why does everybody always ask that when you tell them you’re going to Alaska?!?
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 20, 2010
While I was swimming that since I was going to be in Alaska for July, I’d just bring my MacBook, my iPhone, and my iPad. Ross (my IT guy) bet me $100 that I’d beg him to ship my Windows desktop to me within a few days of getting to Alaska. My post yesterday titled Rethinking The Laptop resulted in three very specific pieces of feedback followed by me taking one specific action. The feedback was: Dump Outlook. Get a solid state drive. Get a Mac.
Mike Michalowicz
AUGUST 15, 2016
He believes using the Surge strategy will help him since he is in a hyper niched business in Alaska and is struggling to grow. Greg and his wife Kim have been operating Magpie Clothing Exchange as a storefront in Palmer Alaska, and online worldwide since 2014. Greg is lifelong entrepreneur with a small 25 year break between projects, and lead vocalist of Alaska’s most middle aged punk band. Also Available On. Show Summary.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 21, 2011
Her family are our neighbors in Homer, Alaska and we’ve known Jessica since she was 12. Amy and I collect contemporary art. We often make friends with the artists who we collect. Occasionally people who are our friends become artists. Jessica Schallock fits into this category. We’ve been friends with Jessica for a decade. We’ve watched, with much joy, as she’s grown into an amazingly talented young women. One of those talents is art.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 28, 2011
Amy and I ordinarily spend the month of July at our house in Homer, Alaska. We decided to do it this summer and we turned our month in Alaska into two months in Europe. Rosabeth Moss Kanter has an excellent post up on the HBR Blog titled Should Leaders Go on Vacation? Recently, I’ve seen plenty of commentary in the popular press (especially Fox News articles) about the inappropriateness of leaders taking vacation.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 26, 2011
July in Alaska helps (although this summer has a fun, European twist). It’s Sunday morning. Take a deep breath. It’s summer time. Go for a walk. Or a run. Play with your family. Take a nap this afternoon. Read a book. Go to a movie. Chill. Last week, I had two close friends tell me some version of “I’m too busy.&# One insightfully said “I have no time these days. I’m doing too much.&#
Mike Michalowicz
JUNE 3, 2013
Wasilla, Alaska. Most famous for being headquarters for the Iditarod Sled-dog race, Wasilla is also the home of Alaska’s most visible celebrity, former 2008 Vice-Presidential hopeful and governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 21, 2011
On the summer solstice in 1993 we went to the top of Ester Dome in Fairbanks, Alaska and exchanged vows. Amy and I have been married for 18 years. Earlier that day we went to Pay ‘n Save and bought our wedding rings (I think we got six for $1.99). I wrote the word “vows&# on a piece of paper twice, tore it in half, and gave one of the vows to Amy to give to me when we got to the top.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 21, 2014
We were on vacation in Alaska, hanging out in Fairbanks at the time. We thought briefly about moving to Homer, Alaska but decided instead to buy a house up here and spend a month each summer up here. Lots of people get married on the summer solstice. To all of them – including those getting married today – congrats and welcome to the club!
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Amy and I were originally going to Alaska to look at polar bears but canceled everything after I got sick and did a staycation in Boulder instead. I took last week off the grid for my Q318 vacation. I got at least 10 hours of sleep each day, did a bunch of self-care things (PT, massage, meditate), ran a few times (to the extent that 14-minute miles can be considered running), and read a half dozen books. I’m feeling a lot better.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 5, 2010
While I stopped writing production code in the early 1990’s, I still fuck around with something each summer when I’m in Alaska (in past years it has been Perl, Ruby, and PHP.)
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 12, 2012
Geoff Roes, undefeated at the 100-mile distance, an organic chef from Juneau, Alaska. Last night Amy and I watched the movie Unbreakable: The Western States 100. Our friends Pam and Mark Solon gave it to us. It was awesome, powerful, riveting, and inspirational.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 8, 2010
A week ago I had just gotten home after a month in Homer, Alaska. I was totally chilled out – I worked plenty in July but had very little physical human interaction with anyone other than Amy. I’m sitting here in my Boulder condo today thinking about the entrepreneurial tour de force that was the last six days. I think I interacted with more different people each day than I did cumulatively over the previous 30 days in Homer.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Over the years, we’ve been personally involved in a number of projects, such as protecting the Anchor River in Anchor Point, Alaska (the town Amy grew up in until she was eight.) The Nature Conservancy and Techstars just announced a partnership to create the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator. Amy and I were part of the public announcement this week in Denver. Both organizations are important to us so it’s a joy to be involved in having them work together.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 6, 2014
about the time I finished working for the company that bought mine) one of the options for consideration was to retire and move to Homer, Alaska. As exits have been flowing nicely again the past few years, many of the entrepreneurs I work with have experienced their first big exit. I refer to this moment as when you find that you have life changing money in your bank account, which I like to call “f**k you money.”
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 3, 2010
I took my Macbook Pro (an older model from about 18 months ago) up to Alaska, left my Lenovo x300 in Boulder, and went native Mac. On June 20th, I declared that I was going to try A Month of Mac. I’m typing this on my brand new spiffy MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8GB RAM, with a 500GB solid state hard drive. I can’t figure out why I’ve been so stubborn about really switching to the Mac. This is a beautiful computer.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 25, 2011
I thought I’d rest and work through it during July when I was in Alaska but that didn’t work out either. I’ve now put together eight great weeks of running in a row. On Sunday, I finally had a long run to town (from Eldorado Springs to Boulder). This has been a long tradition of mine and Amy’s – I run to town early in the morning and she drives in later, we have brunch with friends, and then get massages in the afternoons.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
There are some good gardening ones in the agriculture category) Free Sample Site (another site that keeps updated free sample lists for you) Free Beautiful Alaska Travel Book 40 Free Prints from York Photo (sign up and put them in your account while the deal is still good) Related articles Thirteen Freebies Top Five Freebie Offers Top Five Free Deals. Some of these have a limit so if the link no longer works then the freebie is gone (I will try to keep up with the broken links).
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 21, 2010
I expect I’ll be spending plenty more there soon, including a few next week on my way to Alaska. We recently invested in a Seattle company called BigDoor Media. The founder/CEO Keith Smith wrote a wonderful love story about the deal which was picked up by the WSJ VC Dispatch in a post titled A Summer Romance Between Founder And Venture Capitalist ? Yes, I’ve fallen in love (in a very non-sexual way) with Keith, his co-founder Jeff Malek, and BigDoor.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 24, 2015
I’ve read some of it in the past and tried one summer in Alaska to get through his epic book A New Kind of Science (with very little success, although I read a bunch of science fiction and all the Barry Eisler John Rain books that summer.). When I think of geniuses who inspire me, Stephen Wolfram is near the top of the list. I’ve never met him but have followed him from a distance since I was introduced to Mathematica in grad school in the late 1980s.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 1, 2014
If you are an official resident of one of these 7 states, you don’t need to file a state tax return for that state: Alaska. Many of us spend a great deal of time worrying about money, and rightfully so. Have you noticed Americans are living longer than ever before?
The Startup Magazine
MAY 31, 2017
Native American/Alaska. Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( link].)
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