Brad Feld

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Community Hours – Trying Something New for Random Meetings

Aug 27 2009
I’ve been a long time practitioner of having “random meetings” where I meet with whomever wants to get together with me.  Some amazing things have come out of this over the years, including my first meeting with David Cohen which turned into TechStars. I’ve decided to try something different for the next few months.  Rather […]
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Random Meetings in a Car

May 23 2009
I tried an experiment last week when I was in Seattle.  I did two of my “random meetings” in cars between things. I had a full day (a run with TA McCann (the CEO of Gist), the Gist board meeting, and then the Impinj board meeting.  I had to catch a flight home to Denver […]
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Random Meetings

Jan 21 2006
Earlier this week I was enjoying myself at an Oxlo board meeting (the food was “ok” – at least there was food) and I realized that a number of people in the room were folks that I had met randomly. I’ve had a long standing “random meeting” policy – I try to set aside time […]
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The Return of Random Day

Nov 03 2013
I woke up late today (yay – 12:06 hours of sleep) to the last 15 minutes of the elite women in the NYC Marathon. Watching them finish and then watching Mutai crush the men’s field over the last six miles was pretty inspiring. I haven’t run a marathon since October 2012 when I ran the […]
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How Asking Someone How to #GiveFirst to Them Undermines #GiveFirst

Oct 19 2018
I got an email this morning from a close friend who asked how I reconcile a particular issue around the concept of #GiveFirst. Following is the setup from the email I got. “I was thinking of you yesterday. I recently met with someone in town who was looking to connect. I took the meeting because, […]
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Preparing For A First Meeting With Me

May 18 2009
I have lots of short meetings.  I’ll try to meet with anyone that I can that is referred to me or seems to be doing something relevant to my world.  I’ll also meet with people I think are interesting or, in some cases, just to be polite. Some of the most interesting things I’m involved […]
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Office Hours

Jun 17 2008
When I was at MIT, I loved the idea of office hours.  I didn’t use them often, but when I did they were incredibly helpful to me.  When I had focused one on one time with a professor, it took some of the intimidation out of the learning experience and gave me a tight window […]
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An Example of Real Class

Jul 25 2006
I talk and email with a lot of “random” people.  I’ve blogged about my random meeting policy in the past – whenever I reflect on it I realize that it has served me well.  I never have any specific expectations for these meetings and almost always enjoy the people that I meet.  I have the same approach […]
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Effective Networking

Aug 28 2017
Adam Grant has a superb essay in the New York Times this weekend titled Networking is Overrated. I enjoy Adam’s writing immensely (his book Give and Take is a huge inspiration for my upcoming book #GiveFirst). Early in the essay, he has a strong lead in. “It’s true that networking can help you accomplish great […]
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