VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. That’s the order of states with the greatest dollar value of seed and early stage investment according to a PWC MoneyTree study that my partner Jason blogged about today. 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011.

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Massachusetts Colorado New York California 86

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2011

So when Jim Franklin, the CEO of SendGrid (one of our portfolio companies and a TechStars Boulder mentor) asked if I would write a post about the Founder Institute program in Boulder, I told him that I’d give him control of my blog to write a guest post on it. I may have just the thing you are looking for.

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Colorado Founder Denver Cofounder 135

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities. Free to install, it allows the readers of a blog to interact with one another, engage in discussions, as well as share online content such as photos and videos. Facilitating Blog Interaction.

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Community United States Colorado Social Media 162

David Cohen

JUNE 10, 2021

I was looking at the University of Colorado Tech Frontiers offering this summer. Tech Frontiers is the professional development program of the College of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Colorado Boulder, offering short-form learning on contemporary topics in engineering. Wow, it looks amazing. And thank you CU!

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Colorado Artificial Inteligence Engineer Community 118

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

He had followed me on Twitter and sent me a nice message about my blog. So when I saw the merely mortal Tristan with a normal sized Twitter following I clicked through to his link, saw his blog, saw that he was a second year at Stanford and just thought, “hey, he seems like an interesting guy. before having 300k followers!).

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Social Network Networking Southern California Term Sheet 347

Board Effect

JULY 23, 2023

The University of Northern Colorado’ s website provides a list of strategic plan examples from other universities as you conduct your research. The right tools give higher education institutions the necessary data to engage in meaningful strategic planning. A template for your strategic plan will help streamline the process.

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Technical Review Colorado Software Review Government 52

VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. That’s the order of states with the greatest dollar value of seed and early stage investment according to a PWC MoneyTree study that my partner Jason blogged about today. 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011.

Massachusetts 48

Massachusetts Colorado New York California 48

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2022

2:48] Why blogging alone isn’t enough. [3:25] So in effect, what I'm talking about is strategically choosing, structuring your or content optimizing it really for your ideal customers in a way that's not just the one off blog post. In fact, what I'm gonna suggest is you, you forget about blogging as a concept altogether.

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Denver eCommerce Social Media Media 98

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2020

In addition to his leadership at Foundry, the companies he’s involved in, a number of initiatives in Colorado generally and Longmont specifically, and with his family, my partner Seth Levine has written several excellent posts in around the Covid Crisis. ” Then, he had a post about Decision making in uncertain times.

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Colorado Leadership Partner 169

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Part of the fun of having a blog for a long time is that it captures some of the history – in the moment – of what’s going on. But I’ll end with one of them – the creation of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (now Pledge 1% ). Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Capacity Capital, Greater Colorado Venture Fund, Indie.VC, Reformation Partners, UP Fund, Versatile VC. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised money from VCs and 7.7%

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2013

UberDenver and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick are hosting a rally at Galvanize after the Colorado Public Utilities Commission holds a public hearing on proposed rules changes that could shut UberDenver down. I’ve had a number of private conversations since I wrote my post The Colorado PUC Trying to Shut Down UberDenver.

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Colorado Denver Incubator California 144

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 16, 2020

My last three blog posts have been about this and initiatives that I – and my partners at Foundry – are advocating: LeadBoldly to #StoptheSpread of COVID-19 Take Spring Break At Home For Two Weeks Starting Now Joint Statement by Colorado High-Tech Companies on COVID-19.

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Colorado Distribution Community Video 112

Feld Thoughts

JULY 2, 2019

I’m lazy blogging this week as I get ready to go on vacation for the July 4th holiday. So, here’s another set of videos to watch, which is the entire Street Level Startups series from Colorado Public Television. Street Level Startups: Three Phases of a Startup. Street Level Startups: Mentorship & Integration.

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Colorado Startup Video 19

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. So he decided to start his company in Canada.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Canada Green South Carolina 282

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

But also check out the websites, blogs, and social media posts of multiple VCs to learn what types of companies they invest in, what stage of growth they prefer to invest in, past successes, failures, approaches, and strategies. Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson are cofounders of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado–based venture capital fund.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Technical Review Due Diligence 100

Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2020

After I finish this blog post, I’m going to participate in the Emerge Family Virtual 5k. It’s a beautiful day in Colorado. Read The End of October by Lawrence Wright Took a nap Watched three episodes of Breaking Bad. I feel so much better than I did at the end of the day Friday. The End of October was intense.

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Colorado Distribution 119

Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

Currently this structure is available in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., appeared first on Bplans Blog. Maryland was the first U.S.

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Rhode Island North Dakota Louisiana Vermont 107

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 27, 2010

Colorado’s governor is proposing fast-tracking a software tax to be effective March 1. Thus, it’s imperative people speak out against Colorado HB 1192. I have no connection to Colorado other than this blog has received 160 visits from the state in the last 30 days.

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Colorado Government Software Revenue 40

Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. 420 Intel: A blog recommended by Lincoln Fish. There are a lot of restrictions.

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San Diego Colorado California Business Plan 60

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Or, maybe it will be discovered that the CTR is the highest when an email links to a blog post with interesting and useful information. John is an advocate for technology and education in Colorado and has been an active contributor to the Colorado Technology Association (CTA).

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Email Marketing Colorado Campaign 133

David Cohen

AUGUST 12, 2013

I discussed this distinctive “open door” mentality a while back in an article called Boulder is for Startups on the WSJ Accelerators blog. The New Tech Colorado site provides a place for all Colorado startups and entrepreneurs to see what’s going on in different parts of the state.

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Denver Colorado Startup Community 125

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Ian Hathaway, my co-author for my next book – Startup Communities 2: The Next Generation – has a great blog post up titled The Amazon Bounce Back. Colorado, specifically Denver, is in the final 20 cities bidding on Amazon’s HQ2. Amazon HQ2 could qualify for huge Colorado tax incentives.

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Denver Colorado Seattle Government 58

The Next Web

OCTOBER 11, 2013

This time, we’re taking a look at Everlater, a startup founded by two childhood friends from TechStars’ home city of Boulder, Colorado. After pivoting into a B2B model, Everlater got acquired by AOL to become MapQuest Travel Blogs. Sit back and watch… and don’t miss Startup Stories episode 1 and episode 2.

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Acquisition Colorado B2B Startup 154

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2013

I was having a conversion on Friday with Brad Bernthal , an Associate Professor at Colorado Law School who directs the Silicon Flatirons Center’s Entrepreneurship Initiative. We went back and forth a little and I encouraged him to put it in writing so I could use it as fodder for a blog post. It follows. Yes, it is.

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Colorado Seattle Silicon Valley Warrant 141

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

53 percent of the population holds a bachelor’s degree, and Colorado is ranked first as a relocation city for skilled workers ages 25 to 44. The post 10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018) appeared first on crowdspring Blog. Denver is also one of the most educated cities in the US.

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United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 113

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2010

On March 8, 2010 Amazon fired me as an Amazon Affiliate because of Colorado HB 10-1193. What’s more, we just created an affiliate program against ourselves – any links you have to us on your blog will automatically be affiliated and you will receive 10% of the revenue from any customers we get as a result of those links.”.

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Affiliate Colorado Cofounder Programming 118

David Cohen

MARCH 14, 2017

Google acquired Sketchup in 2006 (yep, I was blogging about Colorado startups way back then ), and we’ve had the footprint of Google’s presence in Boulder ever since then. A great example of how big companies get here is Sketchup , a startup that my partner Mark Solon invested in back when it was a tiny company.

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Colorado .Net America Community 104

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2019

I was healthy, my business (Foundry Group) was successful, I had an excellent marriage to Amy Batchelor, was surrounded by numerous friends, and I got to live in Boulder, Colorado. During my 2013 depressive episode, I blogged openly about my struggles and what I did. From all external perspectives, my life was going great.

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Community Las Vegas Colorado Partner 165

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I was going to blog about the Yesware $13.5 I’ve gotten a ton of emails from all over the world in support as well as some meaningful financial contributions adding on to the $100,000 my partners and I just gave to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado to provide direct support for the flood victims.

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Denver Colorado Finance Community 129

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. —– Greater Colorado Venture Fund (GCVF) is a $17M seed fund that invests in high growth startups in rural Colorado using equity and Flexible VC structuring. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Brad Feld also had some thoughts on this event on his blog. And for those of you who are in Colorado but dont know what my speaking events are like, please take a look at some previous posts. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. For what its worth, I like Silicon Mountain.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

OnlyOnce

MAY 4, 2017

Another CEO with whom I trade notes on the craft of running a company asked me this question the other day, and I thought the answer would make a for a good blog post. My blog post isn’t all that helpful about this specific subject, but it’s here. Anyway…here’s what I wrote to my friend: I love our DSU.

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Agile Colorado Forecast California 81

Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

“How about you write a post for my blog?” We have 3 offices in Colorado, with our headquarters on the 2nd floor of 29th Street mall. Dozens of recent graduates of Colorado’s university system are Zayo-ites. Brad, entrepreneurial as ever, delegated the task back to me. ” This is the first.

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Bandwidth Colorado Startup IRR 147

VC Adventure

APRIL 12, 2016

Cross posting this article I wrote for The Community Foundation of Colorado. I blog a lot about community: entrepreneurial, local, national, international, social, etc. As many of my readers know, I’ve been passionate about the intersection of startups and community for years.

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Community Colorado Global Equity 48

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2013

His blog - My Startup has 30 Days to Live – promises to be a powerful one, at least for 30 days. Included were all the Startup Summer students as well as a bunch of members of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. Startups fail. That’s part of the natural entrepreneurial cycle.

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Colorado Cofounder Software Entrepreneur 151