Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

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 Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. The list goes on and on.

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Feld Thoughts

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. It’s part of the Startup Colorado initiative and is going to make the first round of grants at the end of Q3.

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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 Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. The list goes on and on.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 13, 2020

These are just a few of the many industries in Colorado led and supported by local businesses. Programming includes sessions from people such as Energize Colorado (EC) CEO Wendy Lea and myself. Led by Energize Colorado’s Mentorship team, we have brought together more than 45 mentors with expertise in finance, tech, sales, and more.

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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. Thank you and thank you to all of the finance professionals who volunteered their time to help out small businesses in their time of need. Having made an impact for so many small businesses in crisis is really gratifying to me.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. More often than not, whatever it is you are building will require a complementary skill set, whether that’s business/finance, sales/marketing, or design/engineering.

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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 Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. The list goes on and on.

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Board Effect

JULY 23, 2023

This section outlines the necessary resources to carry out each strategic goal including finances, people, time, and supplies. The University of Northern Colorado’ s website provides a list of strategic plan examples from other universities as you conduct your research.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Series Seed Financing Documents. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. Series Seed Financing Documents. SeriesSeed.com. Blog Archives. Reblog (1). Great effort!

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Brad is currently studying finance instruments used in startup investment and has two forthcoming articles on this topic. 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.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. About a year after he got started, he was ready to raise a venture financing. Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

As an entrepreneur, your goal when raising financing is to get several term sheets — the documents describing the terms and conditions of financing. One of the worst positions you can be in during a financing is to have investors interested, but be too far short of your goal. Determine how much you need to raise.

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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. Further reading: The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Finance: A New Typology. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised money from VCs and 7.7%

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. According to John Borchers, Co-founder, Decathlon is the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR. Bigfoot Capital. Decathlon Capital. Key elements: . “We

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Some friends in the impact investing world have recently started talking about generating giant returns by investing in Zebras (such as a nonprofit building in rural Colorado) and Ponies (an immigrant restaurant in Seattle currently using payday lending at 35% for their working capital).

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Last Tuesday, while I was enjoying a week off the grid, AvidXchange announced they had raised a $225 million financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. This was an atypical investment for us as we participated in the financing through our Foundry Group Select fund. The post Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Photo Credit: Roxana Colorado. Thanks to Roxana Colorado, Kandula International, LLC ! #4- As a business owner, you’re the marketing team, the finance specialist, and the creative department all at once. As an entrepreneur, you control how much you earn and how you conduct your business and I love it.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 30, 2020

I wrote recently about the The Finance Assistance Network (FAN) , that I helped set up (along with Lew Visscher and Phil Votteiro) three weeks ago to offer pro bono financial advice to small businesses affected by COVID-19. The webinar is free and you can register here. I though it was worth sharing here as well.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

We’ll cover topics including: The Finance Chain : How VCs, angels, crowdfunding models, and all the rest fit together. On the third day of the conference we will provide a deep look into what’s going on here in Colorado. Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs.)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. It’s techstars.org/results.”.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 22, 2010

And many, many people around town talk regularly about the overall lack of venture funds in the Colorado market (which leaves Foundry at the top of a very short list of active local investors, in large part be where this perception likely stems from). . Nine of them are based in Colorado (all of those in Boulder). Strongly. .

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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. Photo Credit: Adam Crossling.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Well, I moved four years ago or bought a house in Colorado about four years ago and slowly moved. So, you know, Brian did not need someone to run finance in it cuz he liked finance in it. Whereas I have members of the COO Alliance that two of their core areas that they run are finance in it. John Jantsch (01:52): Oh, wow.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

When we started Foundry Group, we hypothesized that 33% of our investments would be in Colorado, 33% would be in California, 33% would be “everywhere else”, and 1% would be on Mars. We believe great companies can be created anywhere. We still haven’t done the Mars one, but we remain optimistic about the possibility.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Governor of Colorado was there promoting Colorado as a hub for blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Another movement we’re seeing right now is DeFi, or Decentralized Finance. ETHDenver , which took place Feb. 14 to 16 was the biggest crypto hackathon in the world.

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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). The proposal allows foreign entrepreneurs who attract financing from U.S. 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.) investors or revenue from U.S.

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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. And then, a year later, the global finance crisis was in full bloom.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

million financing but I’ve been buried in Denver Startup Week so I’ll do that tomorrow. I was going to blog about the Yesware $13.5 I’ve continued to be emotionally distracted by all the devastation around Boulder from our recent floods. The house is fine, but there is damage to a bunch of our property.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Fund management companies such as Colorado Capital Management can help you find the right ESG to help improve your portfolio while putting your money behind a project that you believe in. ESG Investments.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Delicious Tacodeli breakfast tacos, and Tweed espresso will be served all under one roof at one of Austin’s most amazing office spaces, Atlassian Austin in the Colorado Tower. This event is brought to you by the Austin Open Coffee Club which meets regularly to cultivate relationships in the Austin tech scene.

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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. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Basically, Harmonix tried to go out of business every year between 1995 and 2005 and just managed to fail at that, always coming up with a new revenue deal or a small amount of financing to stay alive before it became an overnight success in 2005 with the original launch of Guitar Hero. In 2013 Alex and Eran asked me to join their board.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. I am pleased that I/K9 Ventures got to lead the Pre-Seed round of financing for Pragli. The Sun Starfire vision was missing one piece though — it felt a little bit invasive when it came to privacy (watch the video). .

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Along with my partner Jason Mendelson and our friends Brad Bernthal (University of Colorado Law School) and Mike Platt (partner at Cooley LLP) we have launched a series of courses in conjunction with our portfolio company Sympoz on starting a company. The four hour course costs $29.99.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2014

However, in places like Colorado, one zip code can contain five different tax jurisdictions with rates ranging from 4.25% to 8%. Advice For The Young At Heart business finance financial management Jonathan Barsade taxation taxes' You Will Mix-up Tax Jurisdictions. If you use an online sales tax tool, you’re not necessarily safe.

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VC Adventure

MAY 6, 2013

TechCrunch reported on the financing here. In the very first paragraph about the financing Josh Constine said the following: Since it’s based in Denver you don’t hear a lot about Datalogix, but the 250 employee startup is crucial to the future of advertising. One thing caught my eye in the story and got my hackles up.

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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. And students have done all the work to bring this vision to life, including the business plan, finances, website design, branding, marketing, and the design of the space itself.

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