Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 3, 2011

Public engagement between entrepreneur community and USCIS to inform new training of USCIS adjudicators. I’ve been working on this issue since I wrote the post The Founders Visa Movement on 9/10/09 (all my posts can be seen in the category summary Startup Visa on my blog).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

According to the 2016 Kauffman Growth Entrepreneurship Index , Austin grew its startups faster than every city except Washington, D.C., The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 8, 2021

Pictured left to right: three Sputnik-backed female founders?—?Jennifer Jennifer McEwen (founder of Datum), April Dominguez and Nikki Dominguez (co-founders of Handsome) As a female-led and majority female-run VC, today and every day we celebrate women.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2017

She started I Am That Girl, a massive online community for the women’s movement. He’s a cofounder of startup studio Expa. He cofounded Nantucket Nectars. He cofounded Method products. Margot Machol Bisnow is a writer, wife, and mom from Washington, DC. Alexis Jones loved story telling. He started Geek Squad.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. Let's get started. (00:29): This is John Jantsch.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Nearly 300 people are using them, and they’re part of the same online community, which allows everyone to see each other’s activity. My co-founder and I have been friends since grade school and have been competitive with each other at everything including our fitness. is a very cool Washington, D.C.

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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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Still, a product is nothing without scalability. 3) Facebook.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

If you are interested in impact investing, I encourage you to join the Impact Finance Center (IFC) and presenting funders The Anschutz Foundation, Zoma Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation , Colorado Health Foundation , and Gary Community Investments at CO Impact Days 2017 , Nov 15-17, in Denver, Colorado.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

What’s positive about Washington’s new Social Purpose Corporations. Co-founder, National Editor. Co-founder, National Editor. Co-founder, National Editor. Co-founder, National Editor. Co-founder, National Editor. Co-founder, Seattle Editor.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As the CEO of Hera Hub , the global co-working space, Felena recognized an opportunity to build a female-focused coworking space largely because she couldn’t find one that catered to her needs. The company now has additional communities Phoenix, AZ, Washington, DC, and Sweden, with several other cities in the works.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. Those unique assets are sometimes leverageable into a resource for strengthening the university’s tech community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days. And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. Passionate online communities are real societies. Here’s what it looks like.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

He is the co-founder and CEO of The Community Company as well as Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) and Forbes Councils. Gerber is an internationally syndicated columnist, author of Never Get a “Real” Job and co-author of Superconnector. Follow Gerber’s co-author, Ryan Paugh, on Twitter. Connect on LinkedIn.

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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. An Abundance of Entertainment, Community, and Recreation. There’s something for everyone here from world-class entertainment to community building to stellar urban recreation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

[link] I’m tired of hearing people on social media speak of “virtue signaling,” a term meant to silence well-meaning people from speaking the truth about injustices done to immigrants, African Americans, the LGBTQ community or speaking up on gender inequality. It is the duty of the visible to fight invisibility.

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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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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Today we send out an inspiring notice about a young leader in the startup community who is truly making a difference with his high energy in bridging startups with investors and selfless pursuit of innovative solutions. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Cons: People advertising services, looking for advice, seeking investment capital, and looking for cofounders are all dumping their comments into the same place, which can make it hard to browse. Pros: There’s no registration required, and the site maintains a sizable community of experienced coders who are up for side projects.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

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. Even as "just a user" you make the community better by adding momentum. In the end, I believe they co-created our product with us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. By creating a space for your startup community to congregate and share new ideas, youre enabling a new kind of economic growth.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

For this webinar, we were joined by Jennefer Witter, CEO and founder of the Boreland Group, and author of the new book, “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed.” Let’s just say you’re in the Washington, D.C. area and you wanted to be in the “Washington Post.”

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. Competitiveness Project , which challenged the HBS alumni community to address America’s declining competitiveness.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Im open to being the coffee and snack technician :-) On another note, I live in Atlanta and believe that we have a strong enough start-up community that would greatly benefit from your lessons learned. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 10, 2017

Either way, entrepreneurs are continuing to move their startups to ATX in order to take advantage of our community, talent, and affordability. Joe Troyen, with PenPal Schools , says that Capital Factory is “where [he] met both of [his] PenPal Schools co-founders and most of [their] original investors.” Austin is the No.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Writing you today from Three Oaks, Michigan, aka “Michiana” Steve Case’s article this morning in the Washington Post – Why innovation and start-ups are thriving in ‘flyover’ country – is spot on. Case , you may recall, was co-founder of AOL. Vote accordingly, vote in your interest.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Navy’s was called CSAW ( Communications Supplemental Activity Washington ) also known as OPS-20-G. While it seemed like a good idea and had the Navy’s backing, the founders got turned down for funding by companies, investment bankers and everyone, until they talked to John Parker. During the 1930s the U.S.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Ive done a lot of placing people into positions, and I have never used a job board as a way to do that," says Rich Sloan , co-founder of StartupNation. Every type of business has their own meetings," says Martin Zwilling , founder and CEO of consulting group Startup Professionals. 1 way to recruit talent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Returning to our example of the beleaguered founder who still has the pager, before hiring an operations guy, try promoting someone from within to take on the job. You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. If not, you can avoid making the hire with confidence. Keep them coming.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. He also co-founded three companies: a broadcasting network, Air America Media, a solar energy company, Atenergy and a branding agency, Brand Maestro.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 15, 2010

Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community. However, as a venture capitalist I believe that it’s incumbent on me not just to be a member of the entrepreneurial community but also truly participate in and contribute to it.

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