Attracting Smart People To Your Community Accelerates Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial communities grow up around smart people.  Whenever someone in state or local government asks me what they can do to accelerate entrepreneurship, I always tell them to put as

August 29, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurial Density

Last week I co-hosted a lunch for Jared Polis with Kyle Lefkoff at Boulder Ventures which Jud Valeski covered nicely in his post titled Luncheon with Jared Polis.  Jared was

August 23, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

TechZulu Interview with Mark Suster

On Wednesday I did two interviews with Mark Suster – one for This Week and Venture Capital and then one before the LaunchPad LA event.  TechZulu recorded and broadcasted the

August 13, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The House Advantage

As I watch Amy scurry around and put the final touches on our Homer house before we leave to go home to Boulder, I thought I’d stay out of the

July 31, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Polymath Haiku Award

It looks like I got 25 haiku’s in my haiku contest for a copy of The New Polymath.  After consulting with Vinnie Mirchandani (the book’s author) we’ve chosen Rini Das as

July 12, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Where's My Jetpack

I snuck another book in last night before I went to bed but was too tired to blog about it.  After The New Polymath, I felt like I needed something

July 10, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The New Polymath

Tonight’s book is The New Polymath by Vinnie Mirchandani.  Actually, it’s the book I read the last two nights as it was too much to get down in one night.

July 9, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Inside Out

Tonight’s book was Inside Out by Barry Eisler, one of my favorite mental floss writers.  Several (four?) years ago when Amy and I were up in Homer, we became obsessed

July 7, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

God's Debris

On page 89, the book’s unnamed protagonist said “My brain hurts.”  I thought to myself, so does mine. God’s Debris is Scott Adams’ first non-fiction book (yes, that Scott

July 6, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Grumby

One of my favorite things about the month I spent each year in Homer is reading.  We don’t have a TV here and, other than going out to dinner for

July 5, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld