YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Early stage voice-activated CRMs will consist of a basic integration with well-established virtual assistants such as Amazon Echo, Google Home and Apple HomePod. John is an advocate for technology and education in Colorado and has been an active contributor to the Colorado Technology Association (CTA).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

We believe the demo, a prototype, or an alpha is far more important than a business plan or financial model for the very early-stage company. Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson are cofounders of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado–based venture capital fund. The demo shows us your vision in a way we can interact with.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Brad Feld is a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. But, he also has great advice on growth strategies for early-stage companies. Certainly one blog to keep high on your list of must reads. Follow Mark on Twitter @msuster. Feld Thoughts. Charlie O’Donnell is a partner at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 4, 2021

We had 80 financial professionals volunteer their time to assist over 300 companies in Colorado and Arizona. Most of the requests for assistance came early on as companies were trying to conserve cash and cut expenses and while applying for the Payroll Protection Program. Most of these came from early-stage startups.

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Early Growth Financial Services

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

EGFS continues nationwide expansion with strategic move into Colorado to support growing startup communities. EGFS’s core clients are early-stage, high-tech startups which makes Colorado’s vibrant entrepreneurial scene a perfect place to set up shop, particularly in the cities of Boulder and Denver.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Startup Summer, a new program from Startup Colorado , will bring hard working, passionate college-age entrepreneurs to Boulder to work as summer interns for startup companies. In return, Startup Summer will commit to you: The selection of the most passionate young would-be entrepreneurs in Colorado.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Colorado houses existing tech giants such as IBM, Oracle and Lockheed Martin, as well as an emerging and thriving startup scene. Colorado is the number one relocation destination in the US for skilled workers ages 25 to 44. Denver has more tech startups per capita than any U.S. Abundance of highly-educated and committed talent.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2015

. “Arkansas: Brad Feld has bounced around a lot: born in Arkansas, raised in Dallas, then lived in Boston for over a decade before moving to Boulder, Colorado. He’s most known for founding Foundry Group, a prominent venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investment, but also co-founded startup accelerator Techstars.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

53 percent of the population holds a bachelor’s degree, and Colorado is ranked first as a relocation city for skilled workers ages 25 to 44. 1871 is home to hundreds of early stage, high growth digital startups and offers tremendous resources and programming to entrepreneurs at all stages of their startup journey.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

The two most notable are the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado and the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars. 2006 was still the pits for venture capital, although a number of legendary companies (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) were in their early phases of getting started. They began to worry that the market was overheating.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

framework for both presenting and analyzing early stage venture investment opportunities. We will select 6 startups to pitch for 3 minutes each in front of a panel of VCs and early stage investors. Are you being asked to invest in, or raise money for one? In this session, we will share and discuss a simplified?—?and

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

About 20 active (at least four investments in the past year) early stage investors (angels and seed stage VCs) attended. FaceFile – Open Angel Forum Colorado. Kijubi – Kijubi @ Open Angel Forum in Boulder Colorado. I participated in the second event last week in Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

In 2007, when we set out to raise our first Foundry Group fund, early stage tech VC was in the shitter. No one believed that you could make any money as an early stage VC and when we went out to raise our first fund, we heard over and over again that we were on a fools errand. But is wasn’t always this way.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

Except for our late stage fund, each of our funds has 30 investments (+/- 2) in it. Each is roughly invested 1/3rd into companies in Colorado, 1/3rd into companies in the bay area, and 1/3rd into companies in the rest of the US (Boston, NY, Seattle, LA, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Each is $225 million.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

53 percent of the population holds a bachelor’s degree, and Colorado is ranked first as a relocation city for skilled workers ages 25 to 44. 1871 is home to hundreds of early stage, high growth digital startups and offers tremendous resources and programming to entrepreneurs at all stages of their startup journey.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

GSD Capital. “ GSD Capital partners with early-stage SaaS founders to fund growth initiatives. This positions F1stcp to be the largest revenue-based investor platform addressing the funding gap for service-based, small businesses led by underserved and underrepresented founders.”

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Many see huge dispensaries in Colorado, for example, raking in big bucks. It doesn’t matter if you’re starting your cannabis business in Washington, Colorado, or Maine; you should start by building authentic relationships with your local cannabis community.” ” Know the rules (and follow them!).

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VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

Earlier this week I gave the keynote address at the Colorado Angel Capital Summit. While the audience was Colorado focused, the overall message I delivered about the angel ecosystem is very relevant to all entrepreneurial communities. I thought I’d share both the presentation and the key thoughts here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. And for those of you who are in Colorado but dont know what my speaking events are like, please take a look at some previous posts. Tickets are available now and include dinner. Read the rest. Weve got slides , video , audio and twitter commentary.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

In under a year, venture-backed, Boulder, Colorado-based BlogFrog would grow to be the United States’ largest network of mommy blogs – thanks in large part to Hamann’s influence with mommy bloggers – and connect over 1.7 million blogging members and their readers. There was also less seed investment available.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2010

Over the next two days I’ve got a meeting with each of my Colorado Senators ( Michael Bennet and Mark Udall ) as well as a summit at the White House led by Phil Weiser (Director of Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council), Aneesh Chopra (CTO of the US), and Vivek Kundra (CIO of the US).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

53 percent of the population holds a bachelor’s degree, and Colorado is ranked first as a relocation city for skilled workers ages 25 to 44. 1871 is home to hundreds of early stage, high growth digital startups and offers tremendous resources and programming to entrepreneurs at all stages of their startup journey.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2012

Our strategy is “early stage” – so we are comfortable with seed investments, first round investments, and what might in the past have been called Series B investments if the company hasn’t raised much money to date (less than $3m). This translates into about a dozen new investments a year plus or minus a few.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers , a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs raise small denomination funding ($50, $100) from friends, family, and peers to help finance the prototype development phase with about $25,000 in seed financing. peerbackers.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I guess if youve run a pattern across the middle with Ray Lewis waiting to knock your head off, a 6 minute pitch in front of a bunch of geeks is a piece of cake.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Feld, who has over 20 years of experience as both an entrepreneur and an early-stage investor, is a co-founder of tech accelerator TechStars and knows whereof he speaks. He bases his book on the lessons he’s learned from 20 years in the vibrant startup community of Boulder, Colorado.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 18, 2012

Founder Collective, Lehrer Ventures, NextView), and are seeing early promise, but the results of that strategy is still too early to call. 150-300 million in size, funds like Union Square (NYC), Foundry (Colorado), Spark (Boston) are among those that have generated the best returns for their LPs this decade.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Take Boulder, Colorado as a model, they’ve successfully created their own very strong economy for startups. There’s a startup for every 50 or so people there. They have all the pieces and they are heavily connected to Silicon Valley without envying them.

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www.davidgcohen.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Ask anyone who has sought meetings with successful entrepreneurs in Colorado – I think you’ll find that when you approach people in our community you’ll find an amazing number of open doors. Most people just never knock on them out of fear of rejection. Filed Under: Blog , Startups About David Cohen Geek.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But I lived in the South, Arizona, Colorado, and the Pacific Northwest. I’ve spent a great deal of time building the early stages of my business out of Europe, and I've now spent the past 14 months of my life working alongside manufacturers in a Spanish-speaking country in South America.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is well capitalized Silicon Valley has traditionally received a disproportionate share of private, early-stage funding compared to other geographies given its density of firms focused on these types of investments and the number of start-ups and private companies in the region. all Bay Area firms?—?investing

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

Madrona focuses its efforts on funding early-stage companies, especially ones that they determine to have the potential to innovate and disrupt markets. CrunchFund: The early stage venture capital firm invests in and works with information technology companies at any stage. Southern California.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Jason Allen’s AI-generated work “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” took first place in the digital category at the Colorado State Fair and artists are not happy. If you’re an early stage founder inworking on something novel in this space, don’t hesitate to reach out! Source: Reddit.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

ABOUT STADIA VENTURES Stadia Ventures is the global Sports Innovation Hub for early stage investment in sports and esports. Louis, Missouri and has expanded their pressence to Frisco, Texas and Denver, Colorado. To date, more than 2,300 MassChallenge alumni have raised more than $5 billion in funding, generated more than $2.7

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

That’s probably one of the biggest challenges, and one of the things you should do in the early stages. Peter: San Antonio’s number ten, Boulder, Colorado, and so we’re looking at some of the strengths that they’re talking about here from the Thumbtack survey. What do you think?

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 26, 2021

… Many rural startup communities are still at a critical early stage of their evolution where the density of startup activity and culture is limited. Once people from these startup communities start working together, they are eager to continue to do so.

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