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Joint Statement by Colorado High-Tech Companies on COVID-19

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been involved with a number of leaders in the Colorado tech community since Wednesday morning as we’ve aggressively mobilized to address the Covid-19 crisis. This week, our companies stepped up efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 here in Colorado and beyond. Why are we taking these unprecedented steps?

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford, we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society was grappling with. Team Neurosmart – Optimizing Performance of Special Operators.

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Unleashing Success: A Guide to Strategic Planning for Higher Education Boards

Board Effect

Two tools stand out as the most effective for higher education strategic planning — proven models of strategic planning and software solutions for good governance such as those offered by BoardEffect. Now is the time for colleges to take a thoughtful, data-informed approach to strategic planning.

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State of Colorado COVID-19 Innovation Response Team, Part I – A Different Kind of Startup

OnlyOnce

His friend, Colorado Governor Jared Polis (who I’d met a briefly couple times over the years), had an idea of starting and rapidly scaling up a task force in the state government and wanted to tap a private sector entrepreneur to lead the effort.

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Colorado Senator Mark Udall Opposes PIPA

Feld Thoughts

On Saturday, Colorado Senator Mark Udall publicly opposed PIPA. I’ve been talking to Mark and his team for about a month about this and I’m incredibly proud of him for taking a stand on this issue. It’s no wonder that Coloradans are contacting my office in increasing numbers – voicing their objections to PIPA.”

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State of Colorado COVID-19 Innovation Response Team, Part VI – How This Compared to Running a Company

OnlyOnce

(This is the sixth post in a series documenting the work I did in Colorado on the Governor’s COVID-19 Innovation Response Team – IRT. Bringing someone in from the private sector to run a public sector team only works when the rest of the team is incredibly knowledgeable about how the machinery of state government works.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(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. Governance. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%