Feld Thoughts

APRIL 13, 2017

The 2017 applications for the Colorado Global EIR are now open through April 15, 2017. The Colorado Global EIR program is a way for experienced international entrepreneurs to receive an H-1B visa, allowing them to work in Boulder. You also get to start and grow a new company in the supportive, collaborative, and dynamic entrepreneurial community of Boulder, Colorado. You can apply for the Colorado Global EIR 2017 or email geir-apply@colorado.edu.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

Colorado is a premier location for entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers. This is why I co-founded and commit a portion of my time to Startup Colorado; an organization that empowers and sustains startup communities across Colorado. One of the programs that Startup Colorado runs – called Startup Summer – cultivates and engages undergraduate entrepreneurs looking to get involved in the Front Range startup community.

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AUGUST 30, 2013

As part of the event – held at Mateo in Boulder – the gang from Built In Denver announced they were rebranding as Built In Colorado. The past two days the Colorado Innovation Network held it’s 2nd annual COIN Summit. As part of it, Governor Hickenlooper rolled out a new brand for all of Colorado, an effort led by Aaron Kennedy, the founder of Noodles & Co. The focus was on Colorado, not on Boulder, or Denver.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 12, 2018

Since I wrote about depression yesterday, I figured I’d highlight a long interview with Colorado Health & Wellness magazine on my history dynamics with depression titled Brad Feld’s Village.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Some time ago a group of entrepreneurs including my partner Seth Levine came together to talk about how to promote entrepreneurship in Colorado and celebrate the fact that entrepreneurship has become a huge part of the Colorado business ecosystem. The result of that discussion was Colorado Entrepreneurial By Nature – a grass roots branding campaign whose goal is to get Colorado entrepreneurs to rally around their shared love of our state and our entrepreneurial culture.

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MAY 29, 2014

A few years ago, David Cohen and I started a Colorado CEO Jobs list in response to the regular stream of inbound email we got from folks looking to move to Colorado and interested in tech-related jobs. The post The Colorado CEO Jobs List appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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JULY 24, 2013

I’m excited to announce the launch of the Colorado Startup Community Fund. This is a $200,000 fund for providing financing to support activities, events, and organizations in the Colorado startup community. The Startup Colorado Community Fund from Startup Colorado on Vimeo.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

One of the fun projects I am involved with is Startup Colorado, a community focused initiative to spur new company creation in Colorado. One of Startup Colorado’s most promising projects is Startup Summer. We are looking for students at any four-year college or university in Colorado who are aspiring entrepreneurs and want to participate in a program that could change their lives. If you are a student at any four-year college or university in Colorado, check it out.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Announcing the Greater Colorado Venture Fund ! million of a target $15 million venture fund to be invested in startups across 54 eligible Colorado counties. Together, this team is already at the center of Rural Colorado’s rising startup. Venture Capital Colorado gcvf oedit vca

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On November 9th, I’ll be helping launch Startup Colorado. Startup Colorado will be one of the regional initiatives under the umbrella of the Startup America Partnership. Startup Colorado is an initiative to make a meaningful impact on entrepreneurship and new company creation in the Front Range. If you are an entrepreneur in Colorado, we’d love to have you join us. We’ll be having a kickoff event at CU Boulder from 6:30pm – 8:35pm.

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MARCH 22, 2015

If you are a technology product manager in Colorado, take a look at the new Colorado Product group. The post 4/2/15: Colorado Product Management Meetup appeared first on Feld Thoughts. The first meetup is on 4/2/15 and features a talk from Adit Vaidya, Product Manager for Facebook Groups. Announcements

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MAY 26, 2017

Over the past fifteen years, Phil Weiser and I have worked together to make Colorado a stronger, more collaborative, and more innovative entrepreneurial community. I strongly encourage everyone to do what they can to help elect him as Colorado’s next Attorney General, including donating your time and money to his campaign. I am personally excited to work with him in how to support entrepreneurial opportunities across our State, including in more rural parts of Colorado.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Last week at the conclusion of the COIN Summit Colorado released an new brand for the state. The idea was to identify a unifying brand that could represent Colorado across a wide variety of uses (both inside the state and outside). Colorado

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MARCH 15, 2016

Applications are open for the second group of Colorado Global Entrepreneurs in Residence. We currently have three Colorado Global EIRs. While Colorado is one of three states to have a program ( the others are Massachusetts and New York ) we are about to launch a few other states, including one I’m particularly excited about. If you are interested in applying to be part of the Colorado GEIR program, apply by email at GEIR-apply@colorado.edu.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

We launched Startup Colorado last week as part of the Startup America Partnership. We’ve got a bunch of great entrepreneurs from Boulder, Denver, and Colorado Springs involved at this point and are reaching out to entrepreneurs in Fort Collins to help us get things up and running there. Create an Entrepreneurial Summer Camp in Boulder for talented college students from throughout Colorado.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2010

One of the great things about living in Eldorado Springs, Colorado is interacting with nature on a daily basis. Colorado Conservation Voters is one of these groups. CCV works to turn conservation values into Colorado priorities by educating legislators and the public about important environmental issues, helping pro-conservation candidates win their elections, and then holding our elected officials accountable.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2017

As we start spinning up Defy Ventures in Colorado, we are doing a Business Coaching Day at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Ordway, Colorado. It’s one of our first Defy Colorado events and Governor Hickenlooper will be joining us for the day.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2013

In yet another insane move by government against entrepreneurs and job creators, the Colorado PUC is proposing a new set of rules that would shut down Uber in Colorado. As a Colorado entrepreneurial community, we shouldn’t stand for this. As citizens and tax payers in Colorado, we shouldn’t stand for this. Colorado’s new brand shouldn’t be “backwater protectionist state” – yeah – that doesn’t sound very good to me.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2015

The program in Colorado follows a similar approach with one major difference. In the summer time, they’ll be part of Startup Summer (run by Startup Colorado in conjunction with Silicon Flatirons) along with being paired with a new MIT MBA Summer Internship in Boulder that I’m about to roll out (ah – foreshadowing…) And, with our broad #GiveFirst attitude across the startup community, they’ll be welcomed with open arms.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Last week at the conclusion of the COIN Summit Colorado released an new brand for the state. The idea was to identify a unifying brand that could represent Colorado across a wide variety of uses (both inside the state and outside). Colorado

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2010

Colorado HB10-1193 – also known as the “Amazon Tax” – really upset me as I wrote about in Amazon Fires Its Affiliates in Colorado (Including Me) Because of Colorado HB 10-1193. While I discovered a partial solution via a service from a company called Viglink which I wrote about in I’m An Amazon Affiliate Again – Sort Of I’m still really annoyed with the myopia of our Colorado state representatives around this issue.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2010

Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate: We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. Instead, they are clearly intended to increase the compliance burden to a point where online retailers will be induced to “voluntarily” collect Colorado sales tax — a course we won’t take. I then received the following email from Colorado Governor Ritter.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2012

While the fires in Colorado have calmed down and the firefighters are in the process of getting them contained, there continues to be plenty of fire danger as the firefighters continue to work incredibly hard. It’s going to be a tough summer for fire in Colorado and I’m proud of all the support this community has given out of the gate to people impacted. I bought one yesterday – all of the money is being donated to Care and Share or the Colorado Red Cross.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I’ve had the great fortune to experience the evolution and transformation of Colorado into a community that I believe is one of the most supportive of entrepreneurs anywhere in the country. These factors, combined with a support structure and philosophy of paying it forward, has turned Colorado into one of the best places in the country to start a business. Marketing Startups boulder colorado denver ft colins local entrepreneurship

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 12, 2012

Last week Startup Colorado hosted the Startup America Regional Summit which was a gathering of the leadership of over 25 different Startup State efforts under the structure of the Startup America Partnership. After the event, David Mangum, the executive director for Startup Colorado and I were discussing what we had accomplished since launching in November 2011 and I asked him to write up a guest post to summarize. Startup Communities mangum startup america startup colorado

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JUNE 29, 2012

My friends at NewsGator have started a fundraising campaign to help victims of the Colorado wildfires. I’d like to encourage everyone involved in a startup in Colorado (or anyone in the world) to help your neighbors in Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Boulder who are victims of the current fires that are raging. While the current Boulder fire is getting under control, many people in Colorado Springs and Fort Collins are still at risk.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The post Little Colorado Company MobileDay Finds Big Hole In Enterprise Bucket appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I’m a seed investor in MobileDay , a Boulder-based company that has helped its users make over two million mobile-based conference calls in the past few months.

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VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011. Compare that with 2006 when Colorado ranked 12th on the list with just under $ 90M invested in 32 companies. That’s an incredible achievement and says a lot about the state of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Colorado and our rising profile on the national stage.

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JULY 1, 2010

Mobile Monday Colorado is hosting a member of the TechStars mentor family, Dion Almaer, for their July 19th event. Tags: Conferences Colorado mobile TechStars Dion is Managing Director of Developer Relations at Palm (now part of HP). Besides his involvement with TechStars as a mentor, he is a celebrity in the AJAX community as the co-founder of Ajaxian.com , and previously held senior positions within Mozilla and Google.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

On Saturday, Colorado Senator Mark Udall publicly opposed PIPA. ” To all of my friends in Colorado’s tech community I encourage you to express your support for Mark – both now (comment on this blog, send his office an email or a letter, write your own blog post, or give him a hug the next time you see him on the street) and in the future.

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Inc Startups

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Colorado cannabis sales nearly topped $1 billion last year. And it's generating major tax revenue in the process

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2018

The number of food meetups and events in Boulder (including Startup Weekend Boulder Food + Tech) as well as events and initiatives all around the state of Colorado has reached a critical mass. Entrepreneurship food hotchkiss startup colorado

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APRIL 16, 2011

Founder Institute is a great way for Jon and I to ‘pay it forward’ and help the next generation of entrepreneurs to make Colorado a great place to start a business. In addition to TechStars, we have many resources for entrepreneurs in Colorado, and all of them have their differentiating points. I strongly believe that entrepreneurial education and community building is not a zero sum game.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If you are a entrepreneur in Colorado who is working on something related to the Internet, please consider signing the following letter to Senator Udall and Senator Bennet opposing the Protect IP (PIPA) Act. I want to make sure they are hearing directly from entrepreneurs in Colorado, who I view as a much more important constituency of theirs than the folks in Hollywood who are trying to jam these bills through Congress.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 26, 2017

A brief post to make sure you know about the upcoming Denver, CO public course in Advanced Innovation Facilitation. This is a high value training. It’s partially sponsored so the price is much lower than usual. Here’s a page with details. It’s next week Starting Wednesday February 1, continuing on Feb 2, finishing at noon on Feb.

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Inc Startups

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Federal data on drug use finds that teen cannabis use decreased in Colorado the year after the state's legal marijuana markets opened up shop

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Inc Startups

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

With the University of Colorado and research labs attracting talent and funding, this off-the-beaten-path startup community is primed to become the next big scene There's more to love in Boulder than grass and granola.

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VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011. Compare that with 2006 when Colorado ranked 12th on the list with just under $90M invested in 32 companies. That’s an incredible achievement and says a lot about the state of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Colorado and our rising profile on the national stage.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I’ve had the great fortune to experience the evolution and transformation of Colorado into a community that I believe is one of the most supportive of entrepreneurs anywhere in the country. These factors, combined with a support structure and philosophy of paying it forward, has turned Colorado into one of the best places in the country to start a business. Marketing Startups boulder colorado denver ft colins local entrepreneurship

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Inc Startups

OCTOBER 24, 2016

James Thorburn, a Colorado-based tax attorney, says that the IRS has opened a rash of audits on cannabis companies under tax code made for illegal drug dealers

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Inc Startups

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The husband-and-wife owners of Colorado Hats use both new technology and old-school construction methods to make high-end custom hats that draw customers from miles away

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David Cohen

OCTOBER 22, 2013

November 18th, 2013 is the 8th open angel forum in Colorado. This is a simple dinner in Boulder with active angel investors. We usually have 4-5 companies pitch, and around 20-25 angel investors in attendance. Open Angel Forum started because we think startups should never pay to pitch, and we prefer a simple dinner together to a more contrived event. There’s no cost to startups, and the format is simple and friendly. Learn more at [link]. Want to attend as an angel investor?

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Inc Startups

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Some top players in Colorado''s massive ski tourism industry are taking exception with legal weed

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