Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 26, 2016

I start with a short one from when I was in Adelaide, then a longer one from Sydney, and wrap it up with what is one of the most fun interviews I’ve ever done – this time in Minneapolis with my partner Seth. The post Interviews in Adelaide, Sydney, and Minneapolis appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Technology adelaide feld interview levine minneapolis sydneyI done a number of video interviews lately. This seems to be the norm for a live event today.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Today we’ve announced that we’ve made new investments in LeadPages (a company in Minneapolis) and 3D Robotics (a company in Tijuana, San Diego, and Berkeley). The post What Does Tijuana and Minneapolis Have In Common? My Investments 3d robotics DevOps leadpages minneapolis tijuana victorops We believe great companies can be created anywhere.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 17, 2016

On Tuesday 8/23, my partner Seth will be doing a Q&A with me at Beta.MN at the Target Plaza Commons in Minneapolis from 5pm – 8:30pm. The post Seth Asks Me Difficult Questions in Minneapolis appeared first on Feld Thoughts. He refuses to discuss anything about the questions he’s going to ask in advance, so I expect it will be spicy. Announcements

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The 48in48 gang is in Minneapolis this weekend to put on our first ever event in the Twin Cities! The post 48in48 is in Minneapolis this weekend…and I’m not there! My awesome 48in48 team (left to right): Carole, Adam, Gina, and Ethan. This is the second event in 2017 (Boston was the first, and Atlanta and New York are coming up.). What’s 48in48?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kate lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 23, 2016

I’m in Minneapolis with my partner Seth. It’s two full days of immersion in the Minneapolis startup community. Venture Capital Entrepreneurship minneapolis TechstarsWe had a meeting at Best Buy headquarters, met with a gang from the Mayo Clinic who drove up from Rochester, spent the afternoon at the Techstars Retail Accelerator which is at Target headquarters, and had dinner with Revolar.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 18, 2019

It also has operations in Dallas, Houston, Columbus, and Minneapolis. A consulting company focused on data and artificial intelligence, Sense Corp., is moving its corporate headquarters from St. Louis to Austin. The company, founded in 1996, already had an office in Austin. While a large portion of our business has always come from Texas, we […]. The post Sense Corp. Moves Headquarters to Austin From St. Louis appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 30, 2020

On May 25th, George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis. I woke up thinking “this has been the strangest quarter of my life.” ” I used to think in days, weeks, months, quarters, years, and decades. I stopped doing that around the time I turned 50 because I was exhausted from the rhythm. I’ve been thinking about Q2 the last few days, which has been the Covid quarter.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

Each is roughly invested 1/3rd into companies in Colorado, 1/3rd into companies in the bay area, and 1/3rd into companies in the rest of the US (Boston, NY, Seattle, LA, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. As with all four of our other funds, it’s a $225 million fund. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

Researching your audience and your competitors can be a good start if you are considering content marketing in Minneapolis or anywhere else. It is many years since Bill Gates coined the phrase ‘Content is king’, but that still holds true today. It can be very exciting starting a new business, but you need to make people aware of it or it will be doomed to failure. Great content is just one way to achieve this, but it is possibly the most important. Building an SEO Strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

by Cara Wick, President of Wick Financial. As healthcare makes headlines, I wish more people listened to Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Joseph Arrow. Born in New York City in 1921, at 51, Mr. Arrow was the youngest person ever to receive the award. Famous for his “ possibility theorem ” which says it’s impossible to construct a social welfare function out of individual preference, Mr. Arrow’s insights are why economists today are almost unanimously against price controls.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

I have to say I was pretty impressed (and surprised) by the strength of the entrepreneurial community in Minneapolis/St. I spent a couple of days last week out in the Twin Cities at the RAIN Makers Conference. Paul. I’ve known a few of the key guys from that community for a few years through Defrag and Glue but it was great to see how many people are really involved (there were something like 250 people at the conference).

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SiliconHills

MAY 6, 2013

Enstratius, founded in 2008 and based in Minneapolis, Minn., Dell announced Monday the acquisition of Enstratius, a cloud management software and services provider. helps organizations manage applications across private, public and hybrid clouds. It supports more than 20 public and private cloud platforms including OpenStack, VMware, Rackspace, Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. “Enstratius is [.]

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

For example, it might be most efficient to reach 25-year-olds living in NYC on Instagram these days; to reach 40-year-old moms with two kids living in Minneapolis, you might want to be seen next to their go-to grocery stores (which they frequent 3x/week). Five to ten years ago, it was thought that digitally-native brands and e-commerce retailers had a distinct cost advantage because they didn’t have to pay for legacy physical infrastructure (e.g.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

When I reflect on where some of our investments are, they are in cities like Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Minneapolis, Boulder, Denver, Charlotte, Lexington, New York, and Boston. I’m not a predictor so you won’t find me participating in the “best/worst of 2016” and “predictions for 2017” lists. But there is a trend that feels inevitable to me: “Startups everywhere.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

Prior to joining GatherUp, Weiche worked for 20 years in digital marketing, most recently as COO of Spyder Trap, a digital agency based in Minneapolis. Prior to joining GatherUp, Weiche worked for 20 years in digital marketing, most recently as COO of Spyder Trap, a digital agency based in Minneapolis. Why Reviews Matter to Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Aaron Weiche. Podcast Transcript.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

From Minneapolis to Duluth, you have to part with a significant amount of cash to finally get your license. Wherever you live, learning to drive is not cheap. You need to pay out for things such as driving tuition, a Minnesota Permit Practice Test if you live in the Land of 10,000 Lakes for example, and the final test before you can take to the road as a fully qualified driver.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2019

Tim Brown is the Owner of Hook Agency, a Minneapolis web design company focused primarily on driving traffic and leads for small businesses and construction companies. by Tim Brown, owner of Hook Agency and author of “ Growthhackathon: Digital Marketing on a Budget “ Did you know that online purchases account for only 8.3% of all retail sales in the US ?

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 24, 2016

Yesterday I gave two talks in Minneapolis. I’ll start with my bias – I’m very optimistic about the superintelligence. One was to an internal group of Target employees around innovation. In the other, I was interviewed by my partner Seth (for the first time), which was fun since he’s known me for 16 years and could ask unique questions given our shared experiences.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 31, 2016

It was actually with much of this in mind that I asked Brad to join me on a trip to Minneapolis. I’ve long had a love for the Twin Cities (I went to college there and have been on the LeadPages board now for several years in Minneapolis). There’s nothing I value more about what we’ve created at Foundry than the relationship I have with my partners. Brad, Jason, Ryan and I are not just business partners, but best friends.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Techstars Retail, in partnership with Target (Minneapolis). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you don’t know what this is, let’s work with the simple Wikipedia definition which is pretty good. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Minneapolis created an incubation centre that drew investment from Google’s Eric Schmidt. Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the world’s technology epicentre. The success of this technology hub has continued to influence global innovators around the world. Of the 131 startups valued at $1B and above Silicon Valley is home to 53 of them. For some examples of its influence, programming schools are springing up faster than ever in Vietnam with help from the government.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 24, 2012

Minneapolis, MN - 162 Market Street. Sphero is now available in some Brookstone stores around the US. There’s a handy map on the Sphero site and I’ll include a list at the bottom of this post. Occasionally one of you, dear blog reader, will ask if you can do anything for me. I usually say something like “just do awesome things” but this time I have a request. If you live near one of the Brookstone stores with a Sphero , go check it out. Play with it.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 16, 2017

This year we’ll be taking the event to four cities – Boston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and New York. My friend Bobby has a great new blog , and he recently posted, It Has to be Big , which really got me thinking, I’m definitely at a point where, if I’m going to get involved in something, I want it to have the potential to be BIG. To make an impact. To change someone’s life for the better.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This year we had events in Boston, Minneapolis, New York, and Atlanta. #GivingTuesday is a terrific global cause, focused on helping nonprofits raise money after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Here is what the site says about the initiative: #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.)

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 26, 2017

The team is working hard on our upcoming Minneapolis event! I haven't blogged in a few weeks due mainly to a long vacation my family and I took to Costa Rica, so I thought I'd get back on the train by giving a little update. First off, my family went to Las Catalinas in Costa Rica for a ten day trip that we will never forget. And every day it looked like this: I know, right? :). Meanwhile, Dragon Army has had a phenomenal first half of the year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2020

George Floyd: In Minneapolis, George Floyd was held to the ground by a police officer kneeling on his neck during an arrest. Our store and HR teams are working with all of our displaced team members, including the more than 200 team members from our Lake Street store in Minneapolis. Like so many of us, I have struggled these past few days with what to say about the heartbreaking injustice that has shaken our country.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 2, 2017

And get this, our event this weekend is the first of four this year (Boston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, New York)! I’m boarding a flight in a few hours to Boston, where we will be holding the fourth 48in48 event! I can barely believe we’ve held three of these events already (Atlanta in 2015, and New York + Atlanta in 2016). Each of our events – where we bring 250+ web designers and developers together to build 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours – brings $1.5

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2020

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cars line up at a drive-thru food pantry. I’ve long been an advocate of using Lean Startup principles to advance non-profits and philanthropic organizations, whose work is so urgently needed at this moment in history. As in many areas of the crisis, I have seen a number of new organizations founded to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in the wake of COVID-19. SF New Deal and Frontline Foods were early leaders.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

When I Work, a company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is fast growing employee management application founded in 2010. Managing employee schedules and their method of clocking in and out has grown easier and more reliable this year. Below are two leading choices in employee time clock technology: When I Work. When I Work takes advantage of the fact that nearly three quarters of all Americans and that 92% of Americans aged between 18 and 29 years old have smartphones.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

While roughly 33% of our investments continue to be in California (San Francisco, Los Angeles, and a third city to be named in a week or so) and 33% of our investments are in Colorado (primarily Boulder and Denver), we have developed deep networks in many different cities, including Boston, New York, Seattle, Portland, and Minneapolis through the other 33% of the investments we’ve made.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 8, 2017

Ovo Minneapolis. Ovo Minneapolis is a company that mostly leases office space in buildings around Minneapolis. Real estate agencies and companies in the real estate industry typically focus on similar things: buying and selling real estate. But that’s like saying that Microsoft and Apple sell the same thing (computers). We know that there are many fundamental differences that make Apple products unique from Microsoft’s.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2011

Minneapolis-based Great Clips, Inc has launched the industry’s first-ever online check-in service, so those looking to get a fuss-free, convenient hair cut can simply check in for an appointment via the computer or a smartphone. We don’t usually think of hair salons being on the “cutting-edge&# of technology – pardoning the pun – but one 29-year old hair salon brand is taking web and mobile technology to its business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Michigan: Detroit Van Buren Minnesota: Minneapolis Missouri: Kirksville Montana: Bozeman Helena Missoula Pablo Nebraska: Lincoln Omaha Nevada: Las Vegas, /usr/lib, 520 Fremont St Las Vegas, CHSI Technologies, 770 Pilot Rd. One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 9, 2017

Sauer was named the 2012 CIO of the Year in Minneapolis/St. Sauer was named the 2012 CIO of the Year in Minneapolis/St. Improve Your Business by Getting the Most Out of Your Data written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jeff Sauer. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jeff Sauer. He is a digital marketing speaker, professor, and Google Analytics consultant.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 8, 2017

Ovo Minneapolis. Ovo Minneapolis is a company that mostly leases office space in buildings around Minneapolis. Real estate agencies and companies in the real estate industry typically focus on similar things: buying and selling real estate. But that’s like saying that Microsoft and Apple sell the same thing (computers). We know that there are many fundamental differences that make Apple products unique from Microsoft’s.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

I have been getting emails and tweets all day from people upset that they cannot get into Startup Lessones Learned 2011 - either here in SF, where we're sold out, or in one of the more than 100 simulcast locations around the world, many of which are sold out, too. We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

He was able to raise money from a VC in Minneapolis called Split Rock , grow the business to over $200 million in sales and sell to Experian for nearly $380 million. Today we announced Launchpad LA V2. Full press release with more details is here. We will be selecting 10 startup companies to participate. There is no cost but you must physically be based in or move to Los Angeles for the 6 months of the program.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 11, 2017

With their help, we’ll pull of four 48in48 events across the country this year (Minneapolis, Boston, Atlanta, and New York), and next year we’ll be adding London to the list!!! Once again, we did it! For the 3rd straight year we pulled off a 48in48 event in Atlanta, and it just keeps getting better. Over 300 volunteers came and donated their weekend to the cause (to build 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours), providing over $1.5

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Though ThriftyWrench is only available in western Wisconsin currently, they are hoping to expand into the Minneapolis-St. We’ve spend countless hours screening and surveying repair shops in the Minneapolis-St. We are now working on building a strong network of reputable repair shops to serve the Minneapolis-St.Paul metro area. There are lot of benefits to owning your own car.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. I met Kathryn Gould longer ago than either of us want to admit. Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

If you’re talking with a firm that mostly only invests in the San Francisco Bay Area and you’re in Minnesota, you’re probably wasting your time for a seed or A round unless you find somebody at that firm who is from Minneapolis and comes home 2–3x / year already. There is an old management saying, “measure twice, cut once” which refers to the benefit of doing some planning. It’s the antithesis of “ready, fire, aim” which seems to be so prevalent in today’s society.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 12, 2018

2017: Atlanta , New York , Boston , and Minneapolis. This is an incredible day. I can barely wrap my head around it, actually. Almost five years ago, Adam and I hatched a plan to put on a hackathon at Ponce City Market with the goal of building 48 nonprofit websites over a 48 hour period. We’d invite some friends to come and we’d beg and plead some companies to donate (food, drinks, and cash) to help us put on the event.

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