Early Stage VCs – Be Careful Out There

In addition to our own funds, we are investors in a number of other early-stage VC funds as part of our Foundry Group Next strategy. Yesterday, in one of the

July 19, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

GP/LP Fit

The idea of product/market fit has been around for a long time. And, while founder/market fit is a newer concept, it turns out to be just as important. Recently, Beezer

June 5, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Step Into The VC Time Machine

One of the things humans are bad at is remembering the past and incorporating the lessons they learned from difficult experiences. I’m sure there’s a philosophical word for this, but

May 16, 2018 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Venture Deals Online Course Starts Again On May 6th

Kauffman Fellows and Techstars are once again running the Venture Deals online course. https://youtu.be/RWUx5qm-xrg This time it runs from May 6th to June 26th. We’ve now had over 10,000 people

April 24, 2018 · 1 min · Brad Feld

VC Offsites – Our Approach

I regularly get asked by other VCs about how we do our offsites. When we started Foundry Group in 2006, we had a very deliberate quarterly process in an effort to

March 7, 2018 · 7 min · Brad Feld

The Greater Colorado Venture Fund

Announcing the Greater Colorado Venture Fund! I am proud to share that the Colorado Venture Capital Authority (VCA), in conjunction with the Office of Economic Growth and International Trade (OEDIT),

February 12, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

People Are The Price of Admission

In my post recently titled Does VC Fund Differentiation Matter? several people commented on some variation of “people” as the key to everything. I don’t view people as differentiatio

August 31, 2017 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Fair and Reasonable

I was on the phone with an old friend last week. We were talking about a few things around a negotiation, and he said something profound. “I just want things

July 7, 2017 · 3 min · Brad Feld

We Lead or We Participate

Over the years, I’ve been in many multi-party negotiations. I don’t know the maximum number of participants in a single negotiation, but I’m sure it’s greater than ten active n

July 5, 2017 · 2 min · Brad Feld

I Don't Accept This Apology

I don’t believe that one starts an apology with the sentence “The past 24 hours have been the darkest of my life.” In my world, the apology is to another

June 26, 2017 · 2 min · Brad Feld