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Composition Shop and the Revitalization of Downtown Longmont

Valuation Policies Are A Mess

The Future of Venture

Endings and Beginnings

American Enterprise is In Danger from Recent Court Ruling

SVB and The Tyranny of the Commons

Techstars Foundation and EforAll

Startup Boards Second Edition

Investors Think They’re More Impactful Than They Actually Are

IRR is a vanity metric

Money in the Bank vs Burn

Building and Compensating Your Board

Downsides of a white hot economy

Pledge 1% – Boardroom Allies

Calling Financial Innovators

The Power of Giving Away Power

You Need More Nietzsche in Your Life

Supporting Small Businesses – A Political Perspective

Older Entrepreneurs Leading the Way

Some Great New Builder Events This Week

Making a Better World – Uncharted’s Economic Equality Initiative

Fortune: Tech entrepreneurs grab the headlines, but COVID relief should target grass-roots small businesses

More New Builders Events! Tattered Cover Bookstore (and more!)

New Builders | Black Lab Sports Forum

Bolster’s Board Benchmark Study | Shout-out to Execs Looking for Independent Director Roles

Behind the Scenes: Writing “The New Builders”

The Covid Churn You’re Not Thinking About

Net Dollar Retention vs. Net Revenue Retention

The Importance of the Democratization of Capital

Startup Communities | Rural Entrepreneurship

Declaring Victory for The Finance Assistant Network

One Thing at a Time

Trump’s Legacy of Racism

Why a 47-Year Republican is Crossing Party Lines and Lessons in Life and Business from Her Daughter’s Painful Journey

Come Join Us at Foundry: Hiring a Head of Network

VC Fund Returns Are More Skewed Than You Think

The Real Story Of America Is About Small

With the Federal Government Doing Nothing, Communities Step Up

Work Lessons from the Pandemic

Performance-based Options Grants

Options about your Options – How to think through your company’s option program

Better Zoom Meetings

Resume Coaching Resource

Colorado’s State-Wide Mask Order

Vacation in the time of Covid

Board Diversity / Network Diversity

Functional Versus Strategic Meetings on Zoom

Make Juneteenth Meaningful

A Few Days

Enough

Uncertainty

Working Remotely – Extending WFH

Join Me Thursday for a Business Town Hall with Rep Joe Neguse

An Update on The Colorado Talent Network

Social Distancing or Social Distrust

Circular Advice from the SBA

The SBA Needs To Get It’s Act Together On The PPP

The Changing Nature of Entrepreneurship | EforAll

Colorado is Opening Up. Foundry is not. Here’s our Thinking.

We’ve helped over 150 small businesses navigate the crisis | Here’s what we’ve learned

The Week 6 Slump

PPP and Women and Minority-Owned Businesses – We Need To Do More

Extending and Expanding Aid – Some Policy Ideas

What Policymakers Don’t Understand About Small Business

Settling In

SBA PPP Loans Aren’t for Everyone

We’re Not Doing Enough to Help Small Businesses

Meet your COVID-19 CFO

Investing in Downturns

Tips For Working from Home From The Foundry Network

Some additional jobs resources

CO #COVID-19 Talent Network

Job hunting in the midst of a crisis

3/19/2020 Thoughts

Decision making in uncertain times

Dealing with evolving information about Covid-19

Take Decisive Action to Stem Covid-19 NOW

Social distancing vs social isolation

Organizational Scaling

Polar Bears!

The Markets Are Great . . . but Venture Outcomes Haven’t Changed Much

How Well Do Founders Do in Venture-Backed Exits?

How much should you be paying your auditor?

A-B-E

How To Get a Job In Venture Capital

Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Board Conflict

Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – The Board Meeting

Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Your Board Package

Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Before the Meeting

Designing the Ideal Board Meeting

Resilience

What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

Different vs. More

How to Build a Better Network

Friday Fun #6 – You Had One Job

What’s The Optimal Portfolio Strategy for a Venture Fund?

You May Have Too Many VCs On Your Board

Friday Fun #5 – I have your friend’s phone

The Changing Venture Market In 3 Images

Friday Fun #4: Ordinals, Texas Style