Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Maxwell Wessel, in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. It decreases your odds of being bought. Personal relationships do count.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2018

Early in his career, Jason was a software engineer at Accenture. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Law School. Prior to this, Jason was an attorney with Cooley. Going further back, Jason holds a B.A. in Economics and a J.D. from the University of Michigan.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good. The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters.

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David Cohen

JUNE 10, 2021

I was looking at the University of Colorado Tech Frontiers offering this summer. Tech Frontiers is the professional development program of the College of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Colorado Boulder, offering short-form learning on contemporary topics in engineering. Wow, it looks amazing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. It decreases your odds of being bought. Personal relationships do count.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In addition to leading the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic that aids the startup community, Brad co-teaches a venture capital course at Colorado Law, along with Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group. Brad and Jason are now in their tenth year of teaching the VC course, which attracts a cross-campus mix of JD, MBA, and engineering graduate students.

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The Next Web

JULY 14, 2012

Editors Note: This is a guest post from Jeff Keacher , an engineer in Denver, Colorado. You can find him pretending to be an entrepreneur by fixing blurry photos or extolling the virtues of backup for photographers. Also, he loves playing hockey. You can follow him on Twitter @teuobk. . It’s never good to scare away your customers.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Before becoming a business owner I used to be a manager at the Boeing company and managed a team of engineers working on the 787 Dreamliner. Photo Credit: Roxana Colorado. Thanks to Roxana Colorado, Kandula International, LLC ! #4- As an entrepreneur, you control how much you earn and how you conduct your business and I love it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). My family and I have lived in Colorado (Centennial) for nearly 12 years. With his permission I’m posting it here in its entirety.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Capacity Capital, Greater Colorado Venture Fund, Indie.VC, Reformation Partners, UP Fund, Versatile VC. Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Of the Inc. Cash collateral.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. Fast-forward three years and Todd is now Captain Todd Branchflower , teaching electrical engineering at the Air Force Academy. He promised that one day he would fix that.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Empathy, in turn, is the engine of human problem discovery and solving. He is the founder and author of PurposeSpeaks.com, and a researcher and adjunct faculty at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. Because purpose asks the questions: Of what use are you to the world? What is your reason for existence?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“I’d say about a third of the companies were people in Colorado already and they obviously stayed and of the remaining 7 companies a year or so there or four of them ended up staying. All the results by the way are up on line. It’s techstars.org/results.”. That is a personality type. On the Startup Visa Program.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

While Foundry invests across the US, we’re based in Colorado and do our best to support the local startup ecosystem. Especially if you live here in Colorado – come support our effort to bring greater focus and energy around these topics right in your backyard. The second question I always get is “why Colorado?”

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

While Foundry invests across the US, we’re based in Colorado and do our best to support the local startup ecosystem. Especially if you live here in Colorado – come support our effort to bring greater focus and energy around these topics right in your backyard. The second question I always get is “why Colorado?”

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Bobby Schnabel has returned to CU Boulder as the College of Engineering and Applied Science faculty director for entrepreneurial leadership , external chair of computer science, and campus thought-leader on computing. While you may not know Bobby, this is a huge add for CU Boulder and the Boulder Startup Community. Welcome back, Bobby!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. Fast-forward three years and Todd is now Captain Todd Branchflower , teaching electrical engineering at the Air Force Academy. He promised that one day he would fix that.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2013

This morning I wrote about the Colorado PUC trying to shut down Uber in Colorado (bad). Feld/Kedrosky: We also think science and engineering graduates should get visas stapled to their diplomas. Today appears to be government day on Feld Thoughts. Now I get to write about Senators Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 3, 2019

Another thing that Los Angeles can be proud of is the highest number of engineering graduates in the country. With more than 55% of the population holding a Bachelor’s degree, Colorado is a hotspot for people looking for work. The result of this mixture is the increase in investments and investors in Los Angeles.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

JumpCloud , one of the fastest growing companies in Colorado, is looking for awesome Developers, QA engineers, DevOps admins, and Customer Success Engineers. Over the next year, they are planning to hire 50 people for the engineering team and about 70 across the entire company.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp, who works to manage product strategy, engineering and strategic partnerships, talked about co-founding the Smart Contract Security Alliance, advances in how blockchain is being used to solve complex problems, and his ethos of “give, give, get.” ETHDenver , which took place Feb.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 16, 2013

A Startup Colorado program, Startup Summer is a great way for aspiring entrepreneurs to gain some real life experience and get plugged into the Boulder-Denver startup community. Sure, it’s cold right now, but it’s time to start thinking ahead to summer if you want a chance to participate in Startup Summer 2013.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2022

Now, let me give you another example of how this type of, of approach works both from a usefulness standpoint and from an SEO standpoint, let's say I'm a painting contractor in Denver, Colorado. So potent is that, that you are structuring links that, that Google and the search engines follow. All right, that's it for today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2019

I enjoy how John and Duct Tape Marketing clarify online marketing in such simple terms, especially search engine optimization (SEO). John Jantsch (left) and me (right) during a July 2019 DTMCN masterclass in Colorado. I also recommend the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast). My Advice to You. You get out what you put in.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

The National Day of Civic Hacking is the first of a yearly event created by the White House to gather Citizen Engineers and have them use newly accessible government data to improve their communities and our entire society. In Denver, the site is focused on open data from the State of Colorado and called Hack4Colorado.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. 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.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A great panel full of engineers titled Tech Tutorial Backdrop: An All IP Network and Its Policy Implications came next, followed by a talk from Colorado Senator Michael Bennet. ” My brain is an engineers brain. ” He said: “What you are observing is the difference between compromise and problem solving.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

For example, you can minor in entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado College of Music. At Stanford, Tom Byers , who runs the innovation and entrepreneurship program inside the engineering school, has made that a big deal and it’s now part of the curriculum. Not just in the business schools. Is it one or two courses?

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 7, 2010

I’ll be on the first panel titled Entrepreneurial Immigration Policy with Lance Nagel (partner in Morgan, Lewis & Bockius’ Labor and Employment Practice) and Vivek Wadhwa (Senior Research Associate, Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and an Adjunct Professor at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering).

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David Cohen

AUGUST 23, 2013

Boulder is an incredible community for startups, and we’re also fortunate to be the home of the University of Colorado. Despite all the great programs and student groups, Fletcher Richman , an engineering student at CU, was frustrated about the lack of connection between the startup community and the university.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. —– Greater Colorado Venture Fund (GCVF) is a $17M seed fund that invests in high growth startups in rural Colorado using equity and Flexible VC structuring. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Engineering Serendipity Making real connections starts with having the right people in the room. Futurist and SciFi writer Jamie Metzl explores the latest technological breakthroughs in the science of genetic engineering and human life extension and their big picture implications for all of us. Serendipity is what SXSW is all about.

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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Law schools need to engage with their communities , get to know their success stories, and reverse-engineer them. But a big impediment to developing such an opportunity is that firms often believe that they cannot provide them if they are not prepared to offer a long-term job when the student graduates. Engage with the community.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. 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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Your headline is what appears at the top of your post, whereas your title is an attribute that affects your search engine ranking. In SEO strategies of yore, people tried to stuff as many keywords into descriptions as possible, thinking they’d trick the search engines into ranking the page higher based on their keyword-heavy word salad.

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