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. From Greg Barry: local in Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 25, 2015

If you are a founder or employee of a startup in Boulder and want to increase the overall effectiveness of our local Boulder government, please help us fund the Code for America Fellowship in Boulder. Boulder is internationally recognized as a very successful startup community and this entrepreneurial approach fits Colorado well.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. Co-working spaces seem to be evolving into the startup garages of the future.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. 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

MAY 14, 2019

From June 5 to June 8, Techstars Startup Week West Slope will be happening on the western slope in Colorado, with the main event in Grand Junction. I’ll be talking about building startup communities outside Colorado’s front range in a fireside chat / AMA format. and the world. and the world.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2016

The final event at Boulder Startup Week a few months ago was Founder Fights. Carrie Barry and her partner Kirsten Barry run The Corner Boxing Club in Boulder and I’ve done a little sparing there. I hope we do it again in 2017 and have heard a rumor already that we’ll do it at Denver Startup Week in a few months.

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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

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. It was part of a more extensive series on Depression, entrepreneurs and startups. Q: How common is the issue of depression in the startup world?

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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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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 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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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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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The panel will take questions and give stories and advice on startup sales from their vast wealth of experience in the entrepreneurial world. The W3 Method equips startups with the tools to articulate their strategy with their team, company, investors and customers. What are they buying? Why do they buy?

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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.” With any startup, investment capital is crucial to getting your business plan off the ground. ” Raise enough capital.

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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. I’m also excited about the startup activity outside of Boulder/Denver. An event in June brings these two dynamics together.

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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. While Foundry invests across the US, we’re based in Colorado and do our best to support the local startup ecosystem. And it does Bay Area folks good to actually *go* to a conference sometimes.).

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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. While Foundry invests across the US, we’re based in Colorado and do our best to support the local startup ecosystem. And it does Bay Area folks good to actually *go* to a conference sometimes.)

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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

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

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I was part of the one in Denver, and my partner Chris Moody was part of the one in Birmingham. I’ve worked with Steve and his team on multiple initiatives, including Startup America and Up Global. While he tells the entrepreneurs’ stories, he has been part of helping create them. They were each awesome experiences.

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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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