A Startup Is A Continuum of Ideas

Chris Dixon had an important post over the weekend title The Idea Maze. He starts off with a very strong juxtaposition of thoughts around the importance of “the idea” to a startup.

August 5, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen, co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” They are making

July 25, 2013 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

An increasing number of companies we are investors in are focused on DevOps. A year or so ago I read an early draft of a new book titled The Phoenix Project:

July 8, 2013 · 11 min · Brad Feld

Problem Solving Versus Empathy

A classical relationship problem is the dichotomy between solving a problem and providing empathy. If you really want to understand this, spend two minutes and watch the awesome “It’s Not

July 2, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Explaining The Bead-Chain Experiment

My partner Ryan send around the following awesome video about a bead-chain experience. It’s a fascinating phenomenon. Beautiful, actually. Now, while the experiment, especially in slow motion, i

June 30, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Talking About Failure

Startups fail. That’s part of the natural entrepreneurial cycle. A great post is making the rounds from an entrepreneur who has 30 days left before he hits the wall. His

June 26, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

GTTFP

One of my favorite acronyms of all time is IHTFP. Its originated at MIT in the 1950s and has achieved widespread adoption. And yes, it does actually stand for I Hate This

June 13, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Don't Get Sick Of Telling Your Story

The Boulder TechStars program is in week three and the intensity level is high. The TechStars office is across the hall from ours at Foundry Group and it’s wild to

June 6, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Sometimes Failure Is Your Best Option

This post originally appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal as part of their Accelerators Program in answer to the question “When and how should you wind down a

May 20, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Power of Peer Groups

For the past two days I’ve been at an even called SERGE (Seasoned Entrepreneurs Gathering Exchange). I co-founded it with two long time friends, Martin Babinec (founder of Trinet) and

May 1, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld