Shifting My Focus To Scaling Up

I’ve spent the past two days at the Global Entrepreneurs Congress in Rio. It’s been really powerful for me as it’s shown how broadly the message of Startup Communities has taken

March 20, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Don't Tell Me Your History In Chronological Order

I meet a lot of people. I hear a lot of people introduce themselves. I interview a lot of people. Sometimes I want to hear their story; most of the time

February 19, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

A Different Approach to Refreshing Stock Option Grants

Every year in December and January I go through the same cycle for all the boards I’m on. It’s the annual bonus, next year bonus plan, option grant refresh cycle.

January 17, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Concentrate Mostly On One Company

This first appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Accelerator series. A few our entrepreneurial heroes work on more that one company at a time. Steve Jobs (Pixar, Apple), Elon Musk (Tesla,

January 13, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Who Owns Your UX Philosophy?

I’ve been in three board meetings in the last month where it was painfully apparent that there wasn’t a person in the company who owned the UX philosophy of the

January 11, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Small Experiments, Often

This post first appeared in the WSJ Accelerators series titled The $100,000 Experiment in response to the question “When should you make a substantive change to one or more parts of

January 3, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Angry, Hostile, and Bitter Is Not A Winning Strategy

We are sandwiched between Thanksgiving and Christmas in a country that is recovering emotionally from two disasters named Sandy – one natural (Hurricane Sandy) and one man-made (Sandy Hook). Our

December 21, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

George Orwell Talks To Us From The Future About a Free and Open Internet

I thought this was a powerful and clever video about the risks to the free and open Internet. It’s worth a watch with an appropriate cynical and concerned view. I

December 11, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Depression and Entrepreneurs

Amy and I wrote a meaningful amount about entrepreneurs and depression in Startup Life. Since we finished the final draft a few weeks ago, I’ve given several talks where depression

October 31, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Disorganized Mess of Shipping

Amy and I shipped the final draft of Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur yesterday. “If you are interested in this book, go pre-order it

October 21, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld