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Separating Regional Economic Development Fact From Fiction

Feld Thoughts

Today I read the following headline in the Boulder Daily Camera: “ Phillips 66 to sell 432-acre campus in Louisville. Bill Ritter on Wednesday revealed that ConocoPhillips has purchased the former StorageTek campus in Louisville.” Phillips 66 pulls the plug on Louisville energy campus. Related articles.

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How Technology and Training Fueled One Ad-Based Company’s Growth

ReadWriteStart

Yu and Young have hosted webinars with schools from Syracuse University to the University of Louisville, spoken in front of high school assemblies, and spoken at many universities. BlitzMetrics trains young people through online training systems and university partnerships.

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Lean Startup Implementation Lessons

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Startup Conference was founded four years ago to bring together real entrepreneurs who have applied Lean Startup techniques and have useful advice to share with each other. offering ten ways founders can get out of their offices.

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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

Breonna Taylor : Shortly after midnight on March 13, Louisville police, executing a search warrant, used a battering ram to crash into the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency room technician. After a brief confrontation, they fired several shots, striking her at least eight times.

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Meet My Hackstar – Cole Morrison

Feld Thoughts

Last October, when I put out a call for A Design HackStar for Startup Revolution I got about 50 responses. That one was from Cole Morrison , who starting working part time as a Hackstar on all the Startup Revolution stuff at the end of last year. Around ten were great; one was awesome.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky. We stayed in touch and I got to know a bunch of the Louisville startup and creative crew, like Todd Earwood, Matt Winn, and Ashley Cecil. I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004.

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5 Cities for Ambitious Women in Business in 2020 and Beyond

Austin Startup

Only Louisville has more women in executive roles in any major U.S. The City of Roses has done more to directly promote women in business than any other U.S. city over the last decade, and it shows in the numbers. The percentage of women in executive positions grew by 5% to 34%.