Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2023

My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. 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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Feld Thoughts

MAY 14, 2020

Freestyle is one of our 32 partner funds (where we are LPs) and most of our new direct investing activity is in conjunction with one of our partner funds. Forbes wrote a detailed profile of the company and the investment in Foundry Group And Slack Are Backing A Virtual Therapy Startup That Raised $8.1

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 19, 2015

The launch was coincident with a visit to our office by Congressman Jared Polis , who represents our district in Colorado, as part of his Startup Day Across America visit to the district, which was exciting for us. Yesterday, we officially launched v3 of the program and are very excited about how it is scaling.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Their demo day is happening on October 30th in Denver and you can register here if you’re interested in attending. . If you want to see what actual world-changing startups look like, you’ll love this particular demo day. As a bonus, there is also an investor-only event that morning for accredited investors.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

The first was at Denver Startup Week, where we did a panel discussion with Ben Huh and Bart Lorang where we discussed the pact between CEO and Board, the pact between Founder and Investor, and how to be transparent and direct. By the winter time, Rand had decided to hand the CEO roles to his longtime partner and COO Sarah Bird.

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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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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

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

MARCH 1, 2012

This entrepreneur happens to be from England and his business partner (and best friend since they were kids) is also English, but managed to get into the US because he fell in love with and married and America a while ago. The business partner lives in Denver so they started the company in Denver a year or so ago.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Ruby on Rails has spawned thousands upon thousands of startups as a framework, as an infrastructure to build products on. This will give you a list of potential partners. John Jantsch (26:48): I am in the mountains west of Denver. I was just in Denver last week for a boast board meeting, and now I'm in Dubai.

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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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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

About | Mentors | Companies | Curriculum | FAQ | Partners | Apply Now. Our vision is to Globalize Silicon Valley by creating and fostering local startup ecosystems in promising markets across the globe. Founder Feedback gives you insights from the startup trenches. Who’s putting in the startup cash? Alexandria.

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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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

million financing but I’ve been buried in Denver Startup Week so I’ll do that tomorrow. I was going to blog about the Yesware $13.5 I’ve continued to be emotionally distracted by all the devastation around Boulder from our recent floods.

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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. A friend and business partner, Kevin Johansen, along with his wife, Karen, took his life last week.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2010

Assume that your VC has more than one runway but each partner only controls one runway so if you’re talking to the partner who’s in the airport tower guiding in the descending plane it’s not likely yours is going to get cleared for landing. In today’s post I want to talk about the concept of a VC flightpath.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

But our partner, Gaurav was from U of M (University of Michigan) and had spent a lot of time at the Brewpub. But our partner in India has huge plans. We were both interested in craft beer and when were thinking about what’s going to work, we analyzed Denver, Colorado, where these Brewpubs were coming up.

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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. Both are companies I’ve been involved in that have gone through the TechStars program in Boulder.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2018

Aunt Bertha - Connecting People and Programs Volunteer and Make A Difference Today | GivePulse A Global Learning Community [link] Interactive Visual Learning Lessons & Activities | Go VizZle Partnered with Notley Ventures We couldn’t be more pleased to partner with Lisa and Dan Graham and the rest of the Notley Ventures team on this project.

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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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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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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. The opportunity to graduate in 2.5

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

With any startup, investment capital is crucial to getting your business plan off the ground. For the cannabis industry to grow properly, it’ll need to avoid giving extra ammunition to regulatory agencies and opposition groups that seek to destroy it.” ” Raise enough capital.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Tell us about your startup. Our NYC-based startup has developed a fitness app, called MotionTraxx that motivates you to push harder in the gym so you can be fit and feel great. We share marketing and management duties and also have an active Advisor, Andy Jackson, who is based in Denver and handles our Business Development.

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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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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. I caught a glimpse of this energy during my Venture Partner tenure with the folks at GGV Capital , who’ve been successfully investing exclusively across China and the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

I knew this instinctively from all of my time traveling between the east coast and the west coast from Denver. I learned an approach many years ago from my now-partner Chris Moody that he used at Aquent when he was COO. The post All Startups Should Consider Expanding In Multiple Geographies appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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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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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Enterprise Ireland is another example.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Enterprise Ireland is another example.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

Working together, MassChallenge and Stadia expect to give sports tech founders a deep well of resources that hasn’t been readily accessible outside of the traditional tech startup space. Louis, Missouri and has expanded their pressence to Frisco, Texas and Denver, Colorado. It is headquartered in St.

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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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