#BradFeld

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If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now. —Brad Feld

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As with many things in life, Attitude impacts Outcome

Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson

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The SHITS

SHITS - Show High Interest Then Stall.

"The equally annoying cousin to unresponsiveness is hanging around the hoop. Being barely responsive but only to maintain optionality until there is external pressure or momentum."

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We Got This Far, Now What?

I've been thinking a lot about what's next for our community now that the fifth year of Big Omaha is behind us.

It seems to me the fifth year is a sign of the potential for what's ahead. It's also a good reason to pause, take a look at where we're at, and make course corrections or adjustments to make sure we not only continue moving forward, but moving forward faster, and with greater impact and results.

The point has been made before by Brad Feld, to which I strongly agree, that it takes a critical mass - which isn't that many - maybe a half dozen people who are committed to building a community. And committed for the long haul, not just the next few months or even a year.

So as we've arrived the an important stage in our community, what do you think is needed?

What organizations or people are flying under the radar and need to be called upon to get engaged?

What's next for us as a city and region?

How can we leverage Omaha's unique assets to build something of lasting value and impact?

Who are the other leaders that are interested in making a dent in the community? 

What's lacking and / or needs to be improved?

Let's look at this time as the end of the first quarter, and take a step back to look at what's happened over the last few years, and double down on making the next five years and beyond even better.

Who's in?

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Brad Feld's 5 Components of a Sustainable Startup Ecosystem

I've had the pleasure of hearing Brad Feld speak several times in the last year, most recently at Launch Fest.   One of the things driving our work right now is building a sustainable startup ecosystem in New Orleans and Louisiana.  Brad set forth his premise about the five components required for a successful, sustainable ecosystem at the TechStars Network conference in May. Here's my summary of his talk. While small business is vital to communities, the vast majority of new job creation comes from high growth entrepreneurship, and that is what we are focused on in the startup ecosystem.  While there is much focus on ecosystems like Silicon Valley, Brad believes that there are 100 cities in us that can support vibrant long term entrepreneurial communities.  His premise is informed by from his work in and the growth of the Boulder startup community. Working towards the goal of creating long term sustainable entrepreneurial communities, we need:

Long View - a 20 year timeline - stakeholders must be committed to the community for long term.

Entrepreneurial Leaders - it must be led by entrepreneurs - cannot be led by government, non-profits, big companies, VCs, lawyers, accountants, economic development, universities.  All of those stakeholders need to be engaged, but entrepreneurs must drive it.

Fresh Meat - need new talent all the time - college graduates & people moving in.

Engaging Activities - engage the entrepreneurial community from top to bottom - startup to serial entrepreneurs - get all involved - you need a thing that engages all those people. You want really active engagement for a moderate period of time because its impossible to maintain a high level activity by someone on something that is not core focus.

Repeat - must have a rhythm with for a long time.  Must have a beat that last through economic cycles. The only way to build a community is to move beyond boom and bust and build something over extended periods of time.

Thanks to Brad for all the support he's provided us through the TechStars Network.  I'd love to hear what you think is important to the ecosystem.

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Brad Feld's 5 Components of a Sustainable Startup Ecosystem

I've had the pleasure of hearing Brad Feld speak several times in the last year, most recently at Launch Fest.   One of the things driving our work right now is building a sustainable startup ecosystem in New Orleans and Louisiana.  Brad set forth his premise about the five components required for a successful, sustainable ecosystem at the TechStars Network conference in May. Here's my summary of his talk. While small business is vital to communities, the vast majority of new job creation comes from high growth entrepreneurship, and that is what we are focused on in the startup ecosystem.  While there is much focus on ecosystems like Silicon Valley, Brad believes that there are 100 cities in us that can support vibrant long term entrepreneurial communities.  His premise is informed by from his work in and the growth of the Boulder startup community. Working towards the goal of creating long term sustainable entrepreneurial communities, we need:

Long View - a 20 year timeline - stakeholders must be committed to the community for long term.

Entrepreneurial Leaders - it must be led by entrepreneurs - cannot be led by government, non-profits, big companies, VCs, lawyers, accountants, economic development, universities.  All of those stakeholders need to be engaged, but entrepreneurs must drive it.

Fresh Meat - need new talent all the time - college graduates & people moving in.

Engaging Activities - engage the entrepreneurial community from top to bottom - startup to serial entrepreneurs - get all involved - you need a thing that engages all those people. You want really active engagement for a moderate period of time because its impossible to maintain a high level activity by someone on something that is not core focus.

Repeat - must have a rhythm with for a long time.  Must have a beat that last through economic cycles. The only way to build a community is to move beyond boom and bust and build something over extended periods of time.

Thanks to Brad for all the support he's provided us through the TechStars Network.  I'd love to hear what you think is important to the ecosystem.

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Radio Silent Rudeness

“We’re raising money.  I have a good intro session.  Prospective investor wants to meet in person, see a demo.  We have a good 2nd meeting. We agree on action items.  I go away and follow up.

Radio silence.

Follow up again.

Radio silence still.  

The first time it happened I was inclined to think it was the investor and that they just couldn’t find the time to send an email response saying, “sorry – no longer interested”.   Then, it happened again this month.”

Via Brad Feld