Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City is officially shipping. Vivek Wadha wrote a wonderful article in the Washington Post on Monday that highlights the Boulder Thesis. Jerry Colonna also wrote an awesome post riffing off of Startup Communities titled The Sarajevo Effect.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Balance is fundamental to building a healthy community and managing the challenges that come our way. We have taken time as a community and leadership team to reflect and set short and long-term goals and build programs to support and grow member success over time. Photo Credit: J Haleem Washington. 1- Balance is key.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. Each team of innovators is supported by a broader community of interested citizens throughout the country. MyUSA is working to solve these problems.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2020

Talking Rain is the Preston, Washington-based producers of Talking Rain Waters, Sparkling Ice, and Sparkling Ice Plus Caffeine. The Recycling Partnership is a national non-profit organization that strives to make recycling more accessible for individuals, communities, and corporations. The labels only decreased from 1.5

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. Those unique assets are sometimes leverageable into a resource for strengthening the university’s tech community.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2013

Though it may seem as if politicians in Washington, D.C. have a hard time agreeing on anything, those on both sides of the aisle seem increasingly keen to support entrepreneurs and their communities. Politics Entrepreneurship events global accelerator network startup day across america startups washington'

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 4, 2020

Countries, communities and households have been turned upside down. . Booster Fuels has set up pop-up contactless gas stations in parking lots of essential businesses and service providers in the SF Bay Area, Washington state and Dallas. This has been the longest quarter ever. Early January seems like an eternity ago.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. Give to the Max” days.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

While I’m fortunate to have this blog, and other writing opportunities as a platform to give voice to these stories, I also realize that to really have a meaningful impact, we need the startup community to be involved in government. At the end of this month, Engine is bringing startups to Washington, D.C. Buffer The post Engine.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Writing you today from Three Oaks, Michigan, aka “Michiana” Steve Case’s article this morning in the Washington Post – Why innovation and start-ups are thriving in ‘flyover’ country – is spot on. Rural areas have been neglected by both commercial companies and the government.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Navy’s was called CSAW ( Communications Supplemental Activity Washington ) also known as OPS-20-G. Parker was a ex Naval Academy graduate and a Minneapolis businessman who owned a glider manufacturing company and was well connected in Washington. Other nations try to read those messages by attempting to break those codes.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2017

She started I Am That Girl, a massive online community for the women’s movement. Margot Machol Bisnow is a writer, wife, and mom from Washington, DC. She spent 20 years in government, including as an Federal Trade Commissioner and in the White House as staff director of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. And many of them view the local government as an irrelevant factor in their business.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. There's been a real sense of community built in the company that I think has been helpful in getting everybody through. Eric Ries : Celine, how about you?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 7, 2018

Souza was followed by Carol Guzy, an American news photographer for The Washington Post. In 2015, as a full-time mom, she took on the US government in her small town of Flint, Michigan. Walters helped expose the toxic water nightmare and fought for safe drinking water for her community.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. And some of it could be in development.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

Its streamlined nature makes it more responsive than most governments. So in the early days and weeks of the pandemic, when our own federal government seemed largely paralyzed or in denial about how to respond to the rapid global spread of the disease, the Gates Foundation continued to escalate its investments.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Today we send out an inspiring notice about a young leader in the startup community who is truly making a difference with his high energy in bridging startups with investors and selfless pursuit of innovative solutions. It is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC. We wish him all the best and continued success.”

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Pascal's View

JANUARY 31, 2010

I recently chaired a panel at the Stevens Institute of Technology cybersecurity conference in Washington D.C. While one government organization may be designated as responsible for this delicate role, many others will continue to lay claim to ultimate authority over what is or is not classified information in the cyber realm.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 23, 2012

Jane Jacobs , a community activist, led the community resistance to the highway. The image of the lone, grumpy old man made me think of the supporters of SOPA--old media, entrenched cable companies and Washington bureaucrats who don't know how the internet works. So it collapsed , just like the dreams of Robert Moses' highway.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 5, 2018

The French government, through the French Consulates in the U.S., The French Tech Austin team of volunteers is led by Christophe Daguet, who has done a tremendous job building a cohesive, energized community to support that mission. But one event will always stand out. Come check us out at French Tech Austin’s French Tech Tuesday.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

The seven featured companies have already proven their worth as winners of the Blue Ribbon Award for innovative business practices and contributions to their local communities. The company operates a unique policy that requires each of its employees to spend at least one day each month volunteering in the local community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. His latest effort, called 2gov.org , makes it easy to contact your local, state and federal governments with just a tweet. Will you join us?

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

This year’s conference subtitle was “ The Challenges of Internet Law and Governance.” As a co-sponsor he had plenty of influence in the background on the process and I’m glad that he spent the time to listen to the tech community, understand why it was bad legislation, and take action.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Please share this information with people who might have an interest in his case — folks in the creativity and innovation community in particular — and, please contribute to his legal aid fund. The Creative Thinkers Conference was organized by a US-based company, Designframe USA, with headquarters in Washington, DC.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Two good things just happened in Washington – these days that should be enough of a headline. I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

Coinbase’s $1 billion valuation, combined with its large influence on the cryptocurrency community and healthy finances , puts it in a strong position to gobble up competitors. Government IT service CSRA was said to be in the process of being acquired by General Dynamics for $6.8

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Up and Running

JUNE 24, 2014

He also took the time to instruct us, the business community, on how to better treat our employees: During a White House Summit on Working Families, Obama said it was time for business leaders and lawmakers to create work environments that respect employees’ lives outside the office. So thank you, Mr. President, for your thoughts.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

CIOs of financial services companies were viewed as gods by many in the start-up community, controlling billions of dollars in IT spending and often willing to experiment with young companies and the next, new thing. Instead, Washington DC has in many ways become the New, New York. First, that's where the customers were.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Summit in Washington DC last week. Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 1, 2014

John Stelmach is the President and CFO of Contentverse , a virtual document management system used by parts of the US Government and small to large businesses all over the world. Make them interact in their community (and benefit from their distance). If you’re based in New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

A similar kind of datablindness happened in the US intelligence community in the decades following the launch of photoreconnaissance satellites. "Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. The CIA relied so heavily on [these].

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Washington D.C. City governments connect with local entrepreneurs, corporations, and community leaders to grow and sustain a vibrant startup economy. Techstars enables entrepreneurs, large companies, and city governments to access proven resources to innovate faster and accelerate their business success. RSVP here Sept.

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