Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I formally declare year one of TechStars Seattle a huge success. I was absolutely blown away by the companies at Demo Day last week along with the reaction and support of the Seattle tech community. The Seattle tech and entrepreneurial community has really embraced TechStars. Tags: TechStars seattle.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Location: Seattle. Contact Us.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . Weekly events, meetups, and happy hours are business as usual in these communities and provide priceless networking opportunities. Your day is finally here.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Some friends in the impact investing world have recently started talking about generating giant returns by investing in Zebras (such as a nonprofit building in rural Colorado) and Ponies (an immigrant restaurant in Seattle currently using payday lending at 35% for their working capital). This conference is not just about Coloradans.

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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. We are investors in PSL (in Seattle) and High Alpha (in Indianapolis).

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Gabriella Draney, Tech Wildcatters.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Along with Kauffman, Steve Case , the co-founder of AOL, his wife Jean and the Case Foundation , has been working hard to help the White House craft a public / private partnership to shine a bright light on entrepreneurship and help accelerate it across the country.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. Upcoming Events.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

In the US, places like San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and Washington, DC get the lion’s share of attention as startup sweet spots. Compare that figure to New York City ($75-$84), Seattle ($40+), or Los Angeles ($39), and it’s clear why startups benefit from locating here. An Abundance of Entertainment, Community, and Recreation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. I believe investors had forced him to do this. I stayed close.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

A friend of mine in Seattle just asked me the same question recently. If I were in Mike’s shoes, I would start by talking to people in the Philadelphia Startup community. For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minteds community votes to tell us what to sell. However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

When we started TechStars in 2006, one of our premises was to help build a strong startup community in Boulder. I also believe that the best way to accelerate core technologies like what Nike has worked on is to build significant startup communities around their core products and technologies.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Smarter Sorting already has a live pilot here in Austin, working with Austin Resource Recovery, and has commitments to begin pilots with Portland, OR, Mesa County, CO, and Salt Lake City, UT. Austin Mayor Steve Adler The event was kicked off by Austin Mayor Steve Adler and MCed by Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. For any individual founder, all comms decisions should start with the desired business impact. Enter Box.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2012

The event took place in the Scrib co-working space in downtown Boulder. I hadn’t been there yet so it was a good chance to meet the founders of Scrib, see the space in use, and get a sense of the energy. It was excellent and I expect Scrib will be a great contribution to the Boulder Startup Community for a long time to come.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A finalist in Hyper-Connected Communities , which will pitch at 5 pm Saturday, March 9, NODE ’s patent-pending technology and platform makes the most sustainable and healthy homes affordable. CEO Don Bunnell answered some questions about the Seattle, Wash.-based In 2003, I co-founded Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc.,

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. Joe Lonsdale. Jim Breyer.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. million in funding (0) Accelerator application trifecta: TechStars Seattle, Portland Seed Fund, and PIE currently accepting submissions (0) You got your Vizify in my Twitter. Community Manager. 3 Comments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 29, 2011

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware Inc. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware Inc. From there, the tour goes through Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, New York, Boston, Chicago, DC, and culminates back in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club on September 27.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Whether you have a full-time job or are a co-founder in a current startup, Startup Weekend Dallas 3 will be a great way to engage with the local startup scene. During the weekend, there will be presentations from various members of the startup community. Startup Weekend is non-profit organization based out of Seattle, Wash.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The report details some of the high profile success stories in Vancouver: In the early days Slack’s founder estimated the market for the software to be $100 million, which they exceeded in just three years—and have now become the fastest growing business software of all time. Broadband.tv com for $575 million. ” Montreal.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

Indiegogo founder Slava Rubin says , Too many entrepreneurs spend months locked away, creating the “perfect” business plan with scenario planning and detailed financial projections. Basecamp founder Jason Fried talked about this at length in his book Getting Real : Details reveal themselves as you use what you’re building.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Scarborough, the co-founder of Tourism Currents, will speak at the Austin Innotech eMarketing Summit Oct. Contributing blogger Matt Scherer recently interviewed Sheila Scarborough. 28 at 1 p.m. She discussed the changes within social media for the travel industry. Q: What inspired you to start blogging on travel?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The report details some of the high profile success stories in Vancouver: In the early days Slack’s founder estimated the market for the software to be $100 million, which they exceeded in just three years—and have now become the fastest growing business software of all time. Broadband.tv com for $575 million. ” Montreal.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Ashish Soni, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Engineering, and the executive director of its Digital Innovation lab, says that in the past many of his graduates would have gone directly to Seattle or San Francisco, but now theyre staying put, getting hired by local start-ups. Most Popular E-mail Newsletter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. As a founder you end up having to deal with a lot of sensitive information & discussions. I profiled one of these interactions from when I last visited Seattle. Nom nom nom. Office Space. What are their projects?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. in the mid-1940s — derived from East Coast institutions.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Finding the right niche, and finding the community that this niche serves, is the way to make a small business a success. First Financial Bank, and Coastal Community Bank, and Neocova recently confirmed a series A funding round of $9.5m. Here are a few of the companies doing just that in 2020: Small banking solutions. Niche recycling.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Should founders have anti-dilution rights?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative. I'm the founder and CEO of Celevity. Here's my conversation with Curative. Celine Halioua : Hi, I'm Celine Halioua.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2019

Blockstack has a full lineup of community events across the globe – you can check out future events here. Manny Medina , cofounder and CEO of Outreach , was a winner of a 2019 Executive Excellence award , which recognizes leaders in Seattle-based companies. To celebrate their race to the 1.5 Clio was (once again!)

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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