Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2015

If you are a technology product manager in Colorado, take a look at the new Colorado Product group. The first meetup is on 4/2/15 and features a talk from Adit Vaidya, Product Manager for Facebook Groups. The post 4/2/15: Colorado Product Management Meetup appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2018

Chris Rodgers is the founder & CEO of Colorado SEO Pros , where he develops company processes, innovating digital marketing practices, and supporting a full-time staff of SEO analysts and digital marketers. We had a chance to interview Chris and asked about his story, how he started his business ad the future of Colorado SEO Pros.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

When Small Business Saturday drives customers to seek out your product, it’s vital that you take the opportunity to collect their contact information and log it in your CRM. However, the right CRM doesn’t exist on its own separate from sales, customer service, marketing and product development. Not an island.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2010

Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate: We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. Regrettably, as a result of the new law, we have decided to stop advertising through Associates based in Colorado.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

– while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery.

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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. You must have a passion for the problem and a love for building great products. Make sure you have a great product that solves a problem. You need to be passionate about your business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Pricing in the realm of professional services can often feel like a nebulous task, as unlike tangible products, services are intangible and the value they provide can vary greatly from client to client. You're going to get really good at delivering that productized initial package. (09:39): He calls it Colorado pricing.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Last week at the conclusion of the COIN Summit Colorado released an new brand for the state. The idea was to identify a unifying brand that could represent Colorado across a wide variety of uses (both inside the state and outside). Personally, I like the new logo a lot and I think it was time for Colorado to update its image.

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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 billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The stretch until Thanksgiving is my most productive time of year. The cool, crisp Colorado mornings. He described exactly how I feel this morning. The fall is my favorite season of the year. By labor day, I’m ready for summer to end. I end the summer in solid shape and usually ramp up a lot in the fall.

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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 billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

They already knew who has lots of users of MobileDay, so they visited them and said, “You already have hundreds of employees using our product – how can we work together?”. The post Little Colorado Company MobileDay Finds Big Hole In Enterprise Bucket appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Last week at the conclusion of the COIN Summit Colorado released an new brand for the state. The idea was to identify a unifying brand that could represent Colorado across a wide variety of uses (both inside the state and outside). Personally, I like the new logo a lot and I think it was time for Colorado to update its image.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2023

GlueCon will occur for the thirteenth time, on May 24th-25th, in Broomfield, Colorado. In the interim years, dozens of products and startups have launched or used GlueCon as one of the venues for their early premieres.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We want to see and touch and smell and try on and (sometimes) taste the products we’re buying, and the eCommerce experience can only go so far. We have a lot of SKUs, and Shopify made it really easy to set up products and inventory counts. Check out this example in my hometown of Colorado Springs. Shopping is multi-dimensional.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 4, 2020

(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. In a startup environment, that process would have taken much longer, involved more customer discovery and product/market fit research and spending 100% of our time on that.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 1, 2010

Mobile Monday Colorado is hosting a member of the TechStars mentor family, Dion Almaer, for their July 19th event. Dion will be able to shed some light on how the largest consumer device company in the world will be integrating WebOS into various product lineups including tablets and intelligent printers.

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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. Silicon Flatirons continues to support a range of entrepreneurship activity. Brad embodies the spirit of collaboration: giving to and supporting others.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Online product sales. Develop rigid strategic focus for key areas of the business (Customers, Product, Operations, and People). He is an Instructor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an Instructor of Strategy and Leadership at Colorado State University’s Executive MBA program.

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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. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Photo Credit: Roxana Colorado. Thanks to Roxana Colorado, Kandula International, LLC ! #4- We focus on creating products that people will love while giving back with each purchase.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Wednesday, September 16th from 3:45 – 5:15pm MT – Energize Colorado – Helping Prepare Small Businesses for the New Economy – Panelists: Brad Feld, Danielle Shoots, Erik Mitisek, & Marc Nager – Moderator: Wendy Lea.

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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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The Next Web

JULY 14, 2012

Editors Note: This is a guest post from Jeff Keacher , an engineer in Denver, Colorado. Roughly 50% of downloaders were abandoning the product after downloading it but before trying it. You can find him pretending to be an entrepreneur by fixing blurry photos or extolling the virtues of backup for photographers. I wasn’t sure.

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Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. What product suddenly becomes legal that hasn’t been for a long time?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2020

Leaf, in Boulder, Colorado , is a prime example of vegetarian cuisine done correctly. Many independent pizza restaurants do solid business if they produce quality products. While the restaurant offers classics like a portobello burger, they also have an elevated food catalog that really stands out against the competition.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2018

The number of food meetups and events in Boulder (including Startup Weekend Boulder Food + Tech) as well as events and initiatives all around the state of Colorado has reached a critical mass. The post A Workshop for Colorado Food Entrepreneurs in Hotchkiss, CO – June 21 and 22 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. 6- Producing products people love. I love the ability to produce a product that resonates with so many people. Thanks to Jason Polk, Colorado Relationship Recovery ! #11-

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2020

We encourage all Colorado-based software and professional services businesses to consider this policy. A number of tech companies led the movement to work from home, including a group of us in Colorado. You don’t have to be in an office environment to develop software products, practice law, trade stocks, or make investments.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 26, 2017

It’s a course for innovation project managers, consultants, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs who want to have more productive strategy, idea generation, and innovation action plans. It’s being held at the Community Research Center and I’m working with CO local Kim Smoyer of Smoyer & Associates.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

Once upon a time, your company may have been able to shake it off if you threw a marketing idea against the wall and found it didn’t stick, or developed a line of products customers didn’t seem to like. Develop products customers want. Conduct product usability tests. That’s not true anymore.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

I still go to my doctor in Colorado for second opinions — and I live in Florida! Customers everywhere are conditioned to expect less thanks to millions of disappointing products coming from across the globe. More and more, shoppers are choosing products and services that are unique, customized labors of love.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it. You still need the presentation to back that up.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

When you’re short on capital, being able to build your product or service yourself is a huge advantage. He moved to Denver, Colorado, where burrito restaurants were not well-known (at the time) and started building his new restaurant, mostly with his bare hands and using a deliberately inexpensive aesthetic. What might this look like?

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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. Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. 3: Twilio (2009).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is a one- to three-page description of your idea, product, team, and business. Explain why your product is awesome, why it’s better than what currently exists, and why your team is the right one to pursue it. Demos help them learn more than they could from any document, especially about their interest in the product.

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