Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 20, 2012

It’s been a refreshing resource for a bunch of startup communities, including Boston (where it started) and Seattle. We (my partners and I at Foundry Group and David Cohen at TechStars) are helping them get enough initial sponsors to bring on a full time writer in the Boulder / Denver area.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2023

I was passionate about the idea, and with my partner, we launched a review platform to help consumers and companies build communication bridges and achieve successful outcomes Thanks to Michael Podolsky, Pissed Consumer ! #6- Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Maegan Griffin, Skin Pharm ! #9-

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I was part of the one in Denver, and my partner Chris Moody was part of the one in Birmingham. Steve’s supported me on several things I’ve done, including writing the foreword to Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. They were each awesome experiences.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 10, 2020

I’m co-chairing the party with my wife Amy Batchelor, my partner Seth Levine, his wife Greeley Sachs, and our friends Mo and Jennifer Siegel. On May 14th at 5:30pm, a group of us are going to have a virtual birthday party for Colorado Governor Jared Polis. Jared always does a fundraiser on his birthday.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Today as I am just now coming out of a fog post Denver Startup Week and GAN Rally. The sabbatical is something I see in this moment as a great idea to integrate in the future post Denver startup week. He was an integral part of the entrepreneurial community here in Colorado. .” “Was thinking about your sabbatical.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 3, 2019

Furthermore, when you are in a business environment, it will be much easier to find the perfect business partner for your startup. Whether it’s because of the community, fantastic weather, or relaxed atmosphere, people willing to invest in startups find their way to Los Angeles quickly. Denver, CO. Los Angeles, CA.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

It was heart wrenching to be glued to the news and local reports seeing pictures of our community – all around where we live; our neighbors; the places we go every day - become ravaged by floods. We’re proud to call Boulder County home and fiercely loyal to our community. It’s hard to imagine this kind of loss.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 25, 2015

So far $30,000 of the $75,000 has been funded by my partners at Foundry Group, Rally Software, and the Anchor Point Foundation (the foundation that Amy and I run). ” This project resulted in us bringing Becky Boone , last year’s fellow with the City of Denver, to Boulder to spend seven months working with the city. .”

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Over the past decade, the Boulder Startup Community has had significant success and impact on the culture and dynamics of the city. I wrote about some of the history and impact in my book Startup Communities and the Boulder Thesis that I came up with has now been used as a template for creating startup communities all over the world.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Some time ago a group of entrepreneurs including my partner Seth Levine came together to talk about how to promote entrepreneurship in Colorado and celebrate the fact that entrepreneurship has become a huge part of the Colorado business ecosystem. Both efforts are grass roots, totally network based, and driven by entrepreneurs.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Amy and I were part of the public announcement this week in Denver. So has my partner Seth and his wife Greeley, who is currently a trustee on the TNC Colorado board. Amy went to Tanzania and Kenya in 2009 with TNC to increase capacity of TNC non-profit partners.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. In order to get the healthcare community to collaborate with each other to bring new ideas to market they will need some help to catalyze the “co” part of co-working. It Takes a Village. It has density,” he said.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. But today we are intentionally engineering six distinct activities to support this tech cluster: entrepreneurial density, university, transportation, capital, accelerator, and business community. University.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

It was heart wrenching to be glued to the news and local reports seeing pictures of our community – all around where we live; our neighbors; the places we go every day – become ravaged by floods. We’re proud to call Boulder County home and fiercely loyal to our community. It’s hard to imagine this kind of loss.

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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. So we’ve turned most of our energy to helping our friends, neighbors, and extended Boulder County community deal with the destruction the floods have caused. I was going to blog about the Yesware $13.5

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

But, there’s research to show that, for every $1 spent with local businesses, 73 cents come back to the community. Your staff, the lawyers, marketing, all tends to come from the local community. We have a great relationship with our community. But our partner in India has huge plans. It’s what we like.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2016

Carrie Barry and her partner Kirsten Barry run The Corner Boxing Club in Boulder and I’ve done a little sparing there. The experience of combining a set of local amateur boxers and their supporters with the Boulder startup community getting behind matches with folks like David, Chris, and Nicole Glaros was really inspiring.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2013

As a Colorado entrepreneurial community, we shouldn’t stand for this. Section 6309: Uber’s partner-drivers will effectively be banned from Downtown — by making it illegal for an Uber car to be within 200 feet of a restaurant, bar, or hotel. This is protectionism and misuse of power in an egregious form. 1) Contact Gov.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 21, 2022

3- Need in the autism community. My reason for starting my business is that I saw a need in the autism community for specialized and personalized care. Photo Credit: Rick Denver. That’s when I met my business partner Broc, an aquarium expert. Thanks to Rick Denver, Fish and Coral ! #10- Photo Credit: Ryan Bolling.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 10, 2018

My partners and I just announced that our long-time friend and LP – Jamey Sperans – has joined Foundry Group. Jamey and his family have moved to Boulder, so in addition to working with us, he’ll become a part of the extended Boulder/Denver startup community.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 14, 2019

I’ll be talking about building startup communities outside Colorado’s front range in a fireside chat / AMA format. I have a strong belief that startup communities should exist everywhere and can have a meaningful impact on cities outside the large urban concentrations that we have in many parts of the U.S. and the world.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I wrote a chapter about this in my book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepre neurial Ecosystem in Your City explaining why and how CU Law has taken a different approach to the engagement of the of a university and the entrepreneurial community. Engage with the community. Step back and think about it a little.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 8, 2022

And it is for this reason that we have spent most of our time creating value in the local communities that we serve. The more these needs trend, the more you can identify a way for your business to provide them or partner with a like-minded company to offer these services. 18- By getting involved in the community.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2018

a new coworking and meeting space at the Springdale General social impact community in East Austin where you can only be a member if you are a social impact entrepreneur. Like our downtown location, meeting space will be provided at low or no cost to non-profits and community organizations, but unlike downtown there is free parking!

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2010

There are two such stories in Westword Denver this week. My partner Jason Mendelson was Next Big Sound’s mentor during the TechStars Boulder 2009 program and led the investment in Next Big Sound shortly after the program ended. And both are rich in content.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

While we had at least two angel groups in the Denver/Boulder area in 2006, they were more of a combination of a cocktail party combined with an entrepreneur torture chamber. He then told me that David Brown (now co-CEO of Techstars), who had been his partner in their first company (PinPoint Software), would likely do $50,000.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2015

A few weeks ago, I participated in a Q&A with Greg Avery at the Denver Business Journal titled Brad Feld Q&A: Bringing depression out of the shadows in startups. And how hard was it to explain it to your partners and your peers? In this case, I was teaching a lot, mostly around “Startup Communities”.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It doesn’t matter if you’re starting your cannabis business in Washington, Colorado, or Maine; you should start by building authentic relationships with your local cannabis community.” ” Know the rules (and follow them!).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

As a two-sided marketplace, Migo also helps partners and cities better understand multi-modal transit usage and demand patterns by delivering aggregate data down to a neighborhood level. We knew when we started Migo that there would be an explosion of ride partners and that’s proving true. Can you explain how the app works?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC. And then you’ve got plenty of Boulder / Denver monsters on paper – some in our portfolio (like SendGrid and Sympoz) and others like Zayo, Ping, Logrhythm, and Datalogix.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2018

I’m also excited about the startup activity outside of Boulder/Denver. My partner Seth and I have been actively involved in the creation of The Greater Colorado Venture Fund that launched earlier this year to support entrepreneurs in smaller communities in Colorado.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Denver, CO?—? Entrepreneurs make connections with other entrepreneurs, mentors, corporate partners, and investors who will help their company succeed. City governments connect with local entrepreneurs, corporations, and community leaders to grow and sustain a vibrant startup economy. RSVP here Sept. 10: Silicon Valley Bank?—?New

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2016

Make no mistake: the legal marijuana industry is booming, creating huge business opportunities and massive tax revenue incomes for their communities. For all the stereotypes about lazy, hapless stoners out there, those peddling green in states where recreational or medical marijuana use is legal sure know how to hustle.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

I’m reposting a note from Eric Norlin , our partner in both the Glue and Defrag conferences which really struck a chord with me. However, I believe that Colorado (Boulder-Denver especially) is one of the best places in the country that you could “get involved” in the internet-software space.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

I’m reposting a note from Eric Norlin , our partner in both the Glue and Defrag conferences which really struck a chord with me. However, I believe that Colorado (Boulder-Denver especially) is one of the best places in the country that you could “get involved” in the internet-software space.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address.

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