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

The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. ———– The National Institutes of Health recognizes that Life Science/Health Care commercialization has two components: the science/technology, and the business model.

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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). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2017

Unless you are a customer or partner, you don’t hear much about a silent killer until it’s suddenly everywhere, leading the market it is in, and functioning extremely well at scale. One of the hints of these silent killers is their inaugural user or partner conference. FullContact is one of our silent killers.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2014

A group of Boulder Startup Community leaders, including Nicole Glaros, Rajat Bhargava, and my partner Jason Mendelson wrote an OpEd titled A necessary education on Boulder’s startup community where they challenged Macon Cowles’ perspective. “We are women and men. Macon Cowles (@MaconCowles) August 31, 2014.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

About | Mentors | Companies | Curriculum | FAQ | Partners | Apply Now. We aim to help launch 1,000 technology companies per year in over 50 cities worldwide. With our team of dedicated experts, we will partner with you on a one-to-one basis to ensure you receive the highest quality solutions for your business. -->. -->. -->. -->.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I would thank my mentors at Silicon Valley for guiding and teaching me how technology can be used to give life to so many ideas that are all around us. Photo Credit: Rick Denver. That’s when I met my business partner Broc, an aquarium expert. Thanks to Rick Denver, Fish and Coral ! #10- 9- Passion for aquariums.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 27, 2012

” Or when I woke up at 4am in the morning and realized Feld Technologies would be out of money in two days if I didn’t go collect some of our accounts receivable – primarily from customers who were clearly stalling to pay because of their financial issues.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

At the same time, Techstars had partnered with Disney to create the Disney Accelerator. The story of how BB-8 came out of this has been talked about plenty of times including an article in Wired and this morning on the front page of the Denver Post. Last year, Orbotix did an unusual thing. Today, Orbotix is called Sphero.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve always thought that Federated was the natural acquirer for Lijit (and we’ve been partners with Federated for some time now). Lijit brings a strong technology background, a rapidly scaling publisher base and the ability of both Federated and Lijit publishers to place their inventory to auction through the Lijit exchange.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

From hydroponics and cultivation products to professional training and education, consultancies, media companies, the plethora of new technologies—the list is endless, and so are the opportunities. This is why ancillary marijuana businesses are doing so well—they aren’t burdened with all the red tape and high taxes.

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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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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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Hearpreneur

MAY 8, 2022

We break through the noise by creating strong relationships with our customers and delivering clinical trial technology that allows cures to get to market faster. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Startup founder Deekron Krikorian of MotionTraxx, was able to pursue his dream of spending a summer abroad in Ibiza, enjoying the music and nightlife of one of the clubbing capitals of the world, while using technology, co-working and other tools to effectively managing his startup and ensuring it moves forward towards its goals while he was abroad.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve always thought that Federated was the natural acquirer for Lijit (and we’ve been partners with Federated for some time now). Lijit brings a strong technology background, a rapidly scaling publisher base and the ability of both Federated and Lijit publishers to place their inventory to auction through the Lijit exchange.

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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. It’s an in depth look at the “connective” technologies that are changing the way we live and work. Glue is coming up at the end of May.

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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. It’s an in depth look at the “connective” technologies that are changing the way we live and work. Glue is coming up at the end of May.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). On question #1, we see good indicators that folks are leaving.

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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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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

The three pillars of the ecosystem include a broad, independent growth fund, a deeply connected global network of sports and esports executives and a world class accelerator which combine to create unprecedented market opportunities and new technology. Louis, Missouri and has expanded their pressence to Frisco, Texas and Denver, Colorado.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 17, 2010

Eric Norlin is a genius at putting together a specialty technology conference. Instead of happening in Denver, Eric is doing Glue at the Omni Interlocken Resort on the outskirts of Boulder. As a special bonus, CloudCamp at Denver is happening the day before Glue (5/25/10). Professor Eric Brewer, creator of the CAP Theorem.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

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. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

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. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 14, 2016

I realized yesterday, as I was driving to Denver, that my comm channels shifted again after I returned from sabbatical in December. Techstars runs on Voxer as do several companies I’m involved in and my partners use it for longer discussions. The largest change is that I’m batching my email.

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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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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This year’s conference will highlight twenty promising early-growth companies; all based in the Rocky Mountain region and a majority of which are focused on clean technology, a burgeoning industry in the area. RavenBrick delivers innovative solar-controlled windows, which reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Twenty Companies Ranging From Seed Stage to Mezzanine Will Showcase Next Generation Technologies from Various Industries at the 27 th Annual VCIR Winter 2010 Conference. Companies from Colorado represent the majority of presenters and constitute all of the clean technology and new energy companies participating in the conference.

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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. Today with every city, state, country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and didn’t.

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