Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2013

Richard Florida continues to write amazing stuff about Startup Communities in The Atlantic Online. The Connection Between Venture Capital and Diverse, Dense Communities. Was Cambridge separated from Boston? ” This particular person doesn’t understand that Boulder and Denver are separate startup communities.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2018

Empower Cocktails CEO, Tiffany Hall has not only begun to fill that space in beverages, but she has also utilized the Empower Cocktails platform to partner with several non-profits that champion women’s initiatives including the Voss Foundation, Dress for Success Boston, Kicked it in Heels and the Metro-Manhattan Community Foundation to name a few.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.

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Genuine VC

JUNE 18, 2013

However, the consistent challenge which we’re observing in the mobile ecosystem is acquiring customer distribution. Micah Adler , Founder of Fiksu , Boston’s white-hot mobile app marketing startup. Both Wayne and Micah know a thing or two about mobile distribution, to say the least… they’re masters at it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

When anyone can work from anywhere, they don’t evenly distribute across the country. As a result, he thought that many people in Silicon Valley aren’t as invested in the community or focused on making it better for their children and their neighbors. There will be some big winners who attract more and higher quality talent than others.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2021

And I’m anticipating doing a lot of this in the places our portfolio companies are scattered: the Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Portland, San Diego, Boston, Salt Lake City, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and so on. There’s just so much community and learning-by-osmosis (or serendipity) that comes from being together.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Twittering laughter fills the air at the new Techstars office on the edge of Chinatown in Boston, as dozens of young engineers, designers, and marketers gather to raise a glass to Katie Rae, a startup veteran with short, curly blond hair and unstoppable energy. Think of it as a cross between a landlord, summer camp, and venture-capital firm.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

” That was the question one of my students asked me three years ago when I quietly told him my plan to start a design museum in Boston with my friend and business partner, Derek Cascio. Before we get too deep, a little bit about me: my name is Sam Aquillano and I’m the Director of Design Museum Boston.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Can you talk a little bit about the growth of the Boulder startup community and what makes it unique to other startup communities such as Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston, etc.? To be clear about where we are as a fund and a firm, we have plenty of capacity to continue to make new investments.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Baltimore’s startup community has plenty of room for new leaders. There are a ton of programmers in this region and a lot of them are toiling away outside of the communities I highlighted in #2. You can unsubscribe at anytime and we promise not to spam or distribute your information. Start an event or project. Catchy tune.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. I’m 100% certain this would benefit our community and not just the entrepreneurs that work there.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

The reality is a startup career path entails a variety of sacrifices, but I don’t believe it should preclude a rich family life, involvement in one’s community, or otherwise seeking a well-rounded human existence. And a lot of big, meaningful companies have been created just in the last couple years which is nearly unprecedented.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Join our community. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Get powerful communication & collaboration tools to help grow your business. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. ); Login or signup. Welcome | Logout. Forgot login ?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. And we've layered that with another crises of the exposure of continued racial injustice throughout our communities.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

The reality is a startup career path entails a variety of sacrifices, but I don’t believe it should preclude a rich family life, involvement in one’s community, or otherwise seeking a well-rounded human existence. FWIW I do firmly believe that everyone deserves and should work towards finding work + life harmony as Brad Feld has described it.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

The reality is a startup career path entails a variety of sacrifices, but I don’t believe it should preclude a rich family life, involvement in one’s community, or otherwise seeking a well-rounded human existence. And a lot of big, meaningful companies have been created just in the last couple years which is nearly unprecedented.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

You look at some of the NPRs of the world that are using a significant distribution. Tom Webster: Yeah, I live in downtown Boston. I see some business people doing that on a much smaller scale, but creating kind of communities of podcasters to promote each other. I suspect we sent some of it all the way to Boston.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. He currently lives just outside of Boston.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. She serves on the board for Big Sisters of Greater Boston, and on the board of advisors for Chewy and Dia&Co. Nancy lives in Lexington, MA with her husband and two daughters.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Each of these initiatives serves a defined community and tries to rise above transience by building sustainable processes of value creation for startups. I have been lucky enough to be involved in both Seedcamp and Techstars Boston, and to see how these two initiatives deliver value in different ways.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And content distribution. But the boards have a fiduciary responsibility to their investors, and as the business round table has recently pointed out to the larger communities that organizations serve, and I just think far too many boards roll over and play dead and don’t take that responsibility seriously enough.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

CyPhy Works in Boston is a good example that DOES refer to robots and robotics for instance. They may already exist, too, but just need to figure out a way to make their prices come down or get the right distribution. Editor’s note: At this point, something flew into the window of our fourth-floor Boston office.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

If you live in a major hub of VC - e.g., Bay Area, Boston, NYC, LA - it’s easier to tap into your local resources to help augment your understanding, but there are a lot of smart people with great ideas in other parts of this country and globally for whom access to information is just not as available.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Baptiste , a new writer at OnStartups and local Boston entrepreneur. crowdSPRING Blog , September 13, 2010 At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. My firm is SKMurphy. This is the first article from Jason L. He's awesome.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. Sal Khan : first cases of community spread. We were based in Boston. I showed them around Boston, while they were up.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

With ~1,500 startups, the Capital Factory community will be all over SXSW! Finalists addressing issues such as storage, distribution, packaging, waste, and more, will compete for up to $50,000 in prizes. All of Austin is getting ready for SXSW- and that means us too! Check out these Capital Factory companies pitching during SXSW.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 10, 2020

Thanks to Matthew Turner, Boston Turner Group ! #9- Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. In 1917 Matsushita founded what is now Panasonic and beyond his product innovations (e.g., Photo Credit: Dustin Vann. Gary V is the main man to follow for any budding disrupters; he tells it like it is and then some.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

It’s a management and engineering consulting company in Boston. I moved from Boston to San Francisco and ended up at oDesk for about five years in a variety of different roles. So it’s a powerful tool for social proof and distribution and evangelism. I had a great time there for four years.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. billionfor the same lesson, partly because they could then tell themselvesthat they were buying a phenomenon, or a community, or some vaguething like that. Bad Location Startups prosper in some places and not others. Afterthat theres not much.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Above you see the distribution among the top 100 grossing e-commerce websites in regards to the number of checkout steps they have. Yes a 1B+ company most certainly are doing something right; your market timing, brand positioning, product design, pricing, logistics, SEO, page navigation, product images, community engagement, etc.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. Mokady believes that partnering with a Boston-based VC would have helped CyberArk address its talent problems more effectively because the VC would have vouched for the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an internet connection. This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. Details soon, I promise.

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