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The Puck: Venture Capital & Beyond — Episode 27: Brad Feld, author and co-founder of Foundry Group December 10, 2021

This week, Jim speaks with Brad Feld, author of the recently published The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche, as well as co-founder of Foundry Group, a tech-focused venture fund located in Boulder Colorado. Brad and Jim discuss how Brad accidentally became a venture capitalist, gender and racial equity in the venture world, and setting aside bias as a leader. They then move onto the advantages of Zoom meetings over old-school IPO roadshows (especially during the fundraising stage) and Brad’s experience with philosophy and bringing stoicism to entrepreneurship.

VC Brad Feld Gets Philosophical (Recruit Rockstars 423) December 10, 2021

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.

Tahmina Talks Immigration – #123 Startup Visa Series – Brad Feld, Foundry Group Partner, Techstars Co-Founder December 10, 2021

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!

Entrepreneurship & Mental Health – Brad’s Story December 9, 2021

Highly driven and successful people often suffer from mental health problems, too. Brad Feld, Cofounder of Techstars and Managing Partner of Foundry Group, describes his experiences with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and their impact on him personally as well as professionally, as an entrepreneur and an investor.

Why Brad Feld Thinks Founders Need to Be Open About Mental Health November 11, 2021

On this week's episode of The Human Factor, Eric Schurenberg is joined by Techstars and Foundry Group co-founder Brad Feld. Feld has done pretty much everything--he's an entrepreneur, author, blogger, investor, mentor and dyed-in-the-wool iconoclast, but also, he's frank about the things a lot of founders struggle with, like failure and mental health.

Square One with Romeen Sheth & Brad Feld October 10, 2021

Join us at Square One with Romeen Sheth & Brad Feld, Founder of Foundry Group to learn about some of the most salient lessons from his book on Nietzsche and how to apply them today so you can grow your start-up bigger, faster, stronger!