Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I’m involved in a bunch of stuff this year, which I’ll list below, but I want to highlight a few specific events, including the Keynote Kickoff with Robert Smith of Vista Equity Partners who grew up in Denver. There is a large effort around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Listen to a short overview with Dianne Myles.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2011

It started with my role as the co-chairman of the Colorado Governors Innovation Council which was my first involvement in any formal way with any government initiative. Make it simple – eliminate capital gains if an individual (who is an accredited investor) invests equity (i.e.

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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. While 2011 is only eight years ago, it’s a lifetime in the world of finance, private equity, venture capital, and business. It was indeed private equity’s moment.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In 2007 when I co-founded Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado with a bunch of folks our mission was to create wealth that we could give back to the community that has been the foundation for so many of our entrepreneurial endeavors. I asked Mitch Fox and Benny Joseph from GoodApril to write up their thoughts on why they did this.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

As Boulder continues to gain visibility as a great place to create companies, I’ve decided to highlight some of the entrepreneurs – and their companies – who have contributed to Boulder in significant ways. We have 3 offices in Colorado, with our headquarters on the 2nd floor of 29th Street mall. We paid them $8.7M

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2018

Stephanie Copeland, former president of Zayo Group and current executive director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade. Anthony Shontz, managing director of Private Equity at Partners Group. Dan and Cindy Caruso and Amy and I contributed the prizes, which total $100,000.

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VC Adventure

DECEMBER 2, 2014

A joint effort between The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado , The Salesforce Foundation and The Atlassian Foundation , Pledge 1% encourages entrepreneurs and companies to give back to their local communities through a gift of equity, profits and/or product. Today we’re announcing the launch of Pledge 1%.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 12, 2016

Cross posting this article I wrote for The Community Foundation of Colorado. We’ve seen immense success in our Colorado community that can be traced directly back to EFCO and Pledge 1%…and now we’re seeing the movement spread around the globe through the Pledge 1% initiative.If

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VC Adventure

DECEMBER 2, 2014

A joint effort between The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado , The Salesforce Foundation and The Atlassian Foundation , Pledge 1% encourages entrepreneurs and companies to give back to their local communities through a gift of equity, profits and/or product. Today we’re announcing the launch of Pledge 1%.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Today, my partners at Foundry Group and I are contributing $100,000 to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) to help with the Boulder Flood Relief Effort. The entrepreneur who worked out of his basement, which is now a swimming pool. The floods in Boulder and the surrounding area the past week have been devastating.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

We went with equity because ivestors would prefer to get equity for the following reasons: 1. One of the reasons notes have become so popular is that the equity documents were too expensive. I think they will be a big help (to entrepreneurs and attorneys alike). Posted by: toby | 03/01/2010 at 09:52 PM. Great effort!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. But now Austin has homegrown heroes like Indeed, Sailpoint, Silicon Labs and VRBO, plus others who have moved here or are moving here such like Army Futures Command, Oracle, TikTok, Yeti, and Vista Equity Partners. “A

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2012

The length of the complete selling cycle is often much longer than the aspiring entrepreneur projects and/or wants to believe. Tracy is professor of accounting at the University of Colorado in Boulder and the author of “ Accounting For Dummies® “ Understand your selling cycle.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In exchange for equity stakes, for-profit accelerators and incubators provide robust resources and access to experts. Unreasonable Institute – Boulder, Colorado: Unreasonable’s marketplace is open; you can help determine or even be one of the projects selected for this summer’s program.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

As I discussed in my recent post “ How To Hire a Superstar Engineer for Your Startup ,” startups may not give employees “sweat equity” in lieu of any ongoing cash payment/salary; nor may startups defer wages and other compensation. And simply calling a worker a “consultant” or “independent contractor” in an agreement is irrelevant.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Feld’s thesis is that unlike the common wisdom, it is entrepreneurs that lead a startup community while everyone else feeds the community. An incubator provides year-round physical space, infrastructure and advice in exchange for a fee (often in equity.) For some incubators, entrepreneurs can stay as long as they want.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

John Jantsch: Yeah I fall into the wink camp because I’m doing the skull at about nine thousand feet in the Colorado Rockies, and camping and tarps and all those kinds of things are really important to our livelihood. That we would be kind of surrounding these embryonic companies and protecting and helping them.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

A group of entrepreneurs posted an OpEd this weekend responding to those remarks in the Daily Camera (it’s worth nothing the diversity of those entrepreneurs vs. Councilperson Cowles’ flatly incorrect characterization of Boulder entrepreneurs). CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. Ryan Martens.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

. — When I designed the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps/Hacking for Defense class, my goal was to replace the traditional method of teaching case studies and instead immerse the students in a hands-on experiential process that modeled what entrepreneurs really did. creating programs for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion e.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The stare at a screen all day lifestyle isn’t for them, so they’re an entrepreneur by default, then they have to figure out what to actually do with that entrepreneurial spirit. Is that the best use of an entrepreneurs time? You could do that if you are an entrepreneur and you are your own boss.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

A group of entrepreneurs posted an OpEd this weekend responding to those remarks in the Daily Camera (it’s worth nothing the diversity of those entrepreneurs vs. Councilperson Cowles’ flatly incorrect characterization of Boulder entrepreneurs). CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. Ryan Martens.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

With a new track focused on the emerging field of Sports Tech starting this year, MassChallenge and Stadia Ventures (“Stadia”) are collaborating to create an end-to-end pipeline of support for entrepreneurs by bridging talent, access to mentors, funding and relationships for founders building the next generation of sports and esports companies.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

In coming months, many entrepreneurs are looking for the best sources to help fund the startups they have planned. Whether the end goal is to exit, be acquired, or have enough in the bank to launch, it’s important for entrepreneurs to find the companies that can help them do it. billion invested in 374 startups in that area.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

This is the first citywide program in the US that allows a city (New York) to retain and attract foreign entrepreneurs by offering access to uncapped H1B visas. Colorado and Massachusetts have similar programs. Entrepreneurs have created such Meetups as the NY Latino Tech Meetup and Japan NYC Startups.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Amongst other things, the OpEd highlights an innovative fund that Colorado has set up to support small businesses, the Energize Colorado Gap Fund. I’m really proud of the work that my partner, Brad Feld, along with Wendy Lea, Mark Nager, and others have done to inject resources into the struggling small businesses in Colorado.

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