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Joint Statement by Colorado High-Tech Companies on COVID-19

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been involved with a number of leaders in the Colorado tech community since Wednesday morning as we’ve aggressively mobilized to address the Covid-19 crisis. This week, our companies stepped up efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 here in Colorado and beyond.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. It has moved from its origins as a tax benefit and can be viewed as a feature that benefits founders. Of the Inc.

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Startups – Beware The Changing Palo Alto Investment Model

YoungUpstarts

Due to lowering capital costs, global competition that spans industries and continents, quicker market validations, and facilitated iteration, the nature of the investment game has changed. As it happens, in the last 30 years, available capital has tripled to stand at roughly 10 times global GDP. Expanding tech talent.

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Retail Reimagined: 9 Trends for the Future of Physical Retail

ConversionXL

The chatter of the “Retail Apocalypse” began long before the recent events of a global pandemic. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. Check out this example in my hometown of Colorado Springs. However, the last year has accelerated the need for retailers to go digital, leaving many struggling to adapt. We did them.

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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. I was “rider zero” when Uber launched in Colorado and we made sure people knew about Uber at all of our demo days around the country as they grew.

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Pledge 1% Today

Feld Thoughts

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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Book: King of Capital

Feld Thoughts

The two most notable are the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado and the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars. The first is from David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group co-founder – one of Blackstone’s competitors) in 2006. Blackstone’s partners, though, had decidedly mixed feelings about the bonanza.