Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

I’ve gotten to know and work with Aaron on several initiatives over the past nine months, including participating in an equity learning initiative led by his firm Equity Solutions , supporting Justice Reskill , and experiencing a lot of equity activity Aaron has lead for Energize Colorado.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 9, 2020

The first cohort-based directed learning experience launches Saturday, August 15, 2020, with the Second Chance Center of Aurora Colorado, led by Mr. Hassan Latif. We are involved in several projects together, including the Colorado Tech Coalition for Equity and Inclusion and Energize Colorado.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. We don’t have any equity or control over the business….”. “As Key elements: . “We

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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2020

I made a big shift earlier this summer after I finished up some of the work I was doing with the State of Colorado around Covid, specifically around the Innovation Response Team. A lot of that energy shifted to new work around racial equity and the release of my new book with Ian Hathaway The Startup Community Way.

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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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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

I was “rider zero” when Uber launched in Colorado and we made sure people knew about Uber at all of our demo days around the country as they grew. They went on to raise capital from Founder Co-op, Vulcan Capital, Trilogy Equity Partners, DFJ, and Top Tier Capital Partners, among others. 3: Twilio (2009). 3: Twilio (2009).

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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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

creating programs for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion e. We began the summit with five of us sharing our experience of how we dealt with the online challenges of: teaching an existing Lean program i.e. Hacking For Defense. creating and teaching new Lean classes i.e. Hacking For Oceans and Hacking For Recovery.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

An incubator provides year-round physical space, infrastructure and advice in exchange for a fee (often in equity.) He uses Colorado University’ Boulder as an example of of a regional university being as inclusive as possible with courses, programs and activities. Activities and Events. There is no guaranteed funding.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2021

It is the first senior appointment to Chargify’s C-suite level team since it was first announced in April 2021 that Battery Ventures led a combined majority growth-equity investment of more than $150 million in Chargify and SaaSOptics. To learn more about Chargify, visit www.chargify.com.

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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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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

Thanks to Jason Polk, Colorado Relationship Recovery ! #11- From becoming more careful about handling my finances to gaining perspective about diversity, equity and inclusion and how they should be emphasized as much outside the office as inside to being a business owner has been enlightening for me. 11- Being accountable for outcomes.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

I want to see our community working and collaborating at a level where we are increasing the economy while addressing issues around environmental sustainability and social equity. CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. Board Member, Startup Colorado. Colorado Current Affairs' Ryan Martens. CU Grad, 1988 & 1991.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

We have 3 offices in Colorado, with our headquarters on the 2nd floor of 29th Street mall. Dozens of recent graduates of Colorado’s university system are Zayo-ites. I am excited to see this innovative energy spreading across the front range, through Startup Colorado and other initiatives. 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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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

still on. ## ABOUT MASSCHALLENGE MassChallenge is a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators. Louis, Missouri and has expanded their pressence to Frisco, Texas and Denver, Colorado. Even with the markets down and industry issues, we’re still investing,” Bill Powell, Managing Director of Stadia Ventures.

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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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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

I want to see our community working and collaborating at a level where we are increasing the economy while addressing issues around environmental sustainability and social equity. CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. Board Member, Startup Colorado. Ryan Martens. CU Grad, 1988 & 1991. Founder, Rally Software.

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ithacaVC

JUNE 1, 2020

Andrew reprinted a memo in Dealbook today that Robert Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners, wrote to his firm’s employees over the weekend. He happens to be a Cornell alum (irrelevant to this post but nice to point out), and still is one of the primary writers of Dealbook. If you have not already read the memo, please read it.

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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. This is our second gift to the EFCO – we previously contributed a portion of our carry across all of our funds.

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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. Good idea, I think this will benefit lots of startups and some angels. Posted by: toby | 03/01/2010 at 09:52 PM. Great effort!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2012

Your business needs to strike a proper balance between making sure that current assets are financed or supported with current liabilities, and making sure that long-term assets are financed or supported with long-term sources of capital such as a five-year note payable or equity.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

When it comes to founders, Texas has jewelry mogul, Kendra Scott; Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban of Shark Tank; Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble; video game developer, John Carmack; Vista Equity Partners Founder, Robert Smith; Michael Dell of Dell Technologies; and now Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla! all Bay Area firms?—?investing

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Colorado and Massachusetts have similar programs. 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. In its first two application periods, the initiative received over 215 applicants.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

According to Pitchbook, the data and technology provider for the global private equity and venture capital markets, the year’s total for this region was a record $2.4 Colorado isn’t typically top of mind when it comes to venture capital firms, but there are more located in the state than many entrepreneurs are aware of.

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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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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

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. Health and safety, license and regulation, so fallowing on the Colorado trend, number eight is Fort Collins, Colorado. What do you think?

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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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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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