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One of the best-known venture capitalists in the country, Brad Feld is the co-founder of Foundry Group and Techstars and an early investor in Zynga and Fitbit. Brad joins Adam to share his best lessons from a career building and investing in businesses and studying the ecosystem that allows them to thrive. Brad and Adam discuss the role of failure in entrepreneurial success, how to approach fundraising and investing, and how to find and become a great mentor.
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This July founders heard from Brad Feld, prominent thought leader, investor, entrepreneur and author. He brings a wealth of experience that can help the founders who are building a business in a quadruple barrel crisis, when a global pandemic, economic crisis, mental health crisis and the necessary fight for racial equity have intersected. Brad discusses concepts from his most recent book, The Startup Community Way, and explains how founders can use an understanding of complex adaptive systems to help them navigate the unprecedented shifts that are transforming our society right now.
Brad Feld author of The Startup Community Way, co-founder of Techstars, VC at Foundry Group, and early FitBit investor coined the term “startup community” and shares what makes a great startup community, why certain partnerships kill these communities, and how to grow them!
What makes startup communities thrive? How can we improve collaboration amongst ecosystem actors to create success in these complex systems? These are two questions that Brad Feld (Founder at Foundry Group & Techstars) and Ian Hathaway (Executive Director for Ecosystems at Techstars) answer in the new book that they just released together, The Startup Community Way.
In this episode of the Startup Visa Series, I speak with Brad Feld, Foundry Group Partner and Co-Founder of Techstars. Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars. Brad is a writer and speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship. He’s written a number of books as part of the Startup Revolution series and writes the blog Feld Thoughts. Hope you enjoy listening to this interview as much as I enjoyed interviewing him!
After you listen to this interview, look out for the 2nd edition of The Startup Series book to learn more about this issue and the need for change!
Brad Feld is one of the nation’s most prolific Venture Capital investors & business authors.
He’s been investing in early-stage companies since 1995, with dozens of successes to his credit. Based in Boulder, Brad is Co-Founder of both Foundry Group and Techstars.
Foundry’s portfolio companies include Whoop, Suzy, Ordermark, Glowforge, and Drip.
When he’s not investing, Brad is writing. He’s got 8 books on entrepreneurship to his credit.
And now, he’s got a new one “The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors” co-authored with serial entrepreneur Dave Jilk with a forward by Reid Hoffman
It turns out that Friedrich Nietzsche, the late 1800’s philosopher, wrote countless lessons that could be easily applied to entrepreneurship.
In the book, each quick, digestible chapter expands on a quote from Nietzsche to stimulate your thinking about a vital aspect of entrepreneurship, with stories from real-life entrepreneurs help make the ideas concrete.
The book is fascinating, as is Brad.
In this 20-minute conversation, he reveals the lonely struggles that entrepreneurs face & how to keep your wits about you, no matter what role you play in scaling a company.
Eliot Peper interviewed Brad Feld about his new book that explores the implications of Nietzsche's ideas for entrepreneurs, artists, and makers—offering an invaluable philosophical toolkit to anyone building something new.