Startup America Partnership

On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. As part of this, TechStars announced the TechStars Network, an affiliation of TechStars-like programs across [&hell

February 1, 2011 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Implied Suspicion Versus Implied Trust

I just had an exchange with an entrepreneur that I don’t know.  It went something like the following via several emails over the course of a week. Entrepreneur: I’m working [...]

January 8, 2011 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Numbers Reset To Zero

Most of the companies I’m an investor in have a fiscal year that lines up with the calendar year.  As a result, with a few exceptions, the 2010 numbers are [...]

January 3, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Power of a CEO 360 Review

I recently sat through an annual CEO 360 review at a company that has been very serious about executive development since inception.  It reminded me how powerful this is when [...]

December 9, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

National Entrepreneurs Day

I’ve spent a lot of time this year talking about the importance of entrepreneurship to our economy and society.  Hopefully the work and energy that I’ve put into understanding and [&hellip

November 19, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

ADPrentice 2010

On Saturday, I spent the day with my MIT fraternity (the Lambda Phi Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi) at the Microsoft NERD facility in Cambridge next to MIT.  We did [...]

October 25, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Intrinsic Motivation

At a talk I gave recently to a room full of first year graduate business school students, I was asked “what motivates me.”  Before I answered, I felt compelled to [...]

October 11, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurial Story Telling

I think the best way for entrepreneurs – especially first time or aspiring ones – to learn is to hear stories from other entrepreneurs.  That was one of the motivations [...]

October 8, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

That Was A Yes Or No Question

I think I’ll avoid all the “are super angels colluding“, “no they aren’t“, “go fuck yourself and stop talking horseshit“, and “guys, quit being na

September 22, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Should You Charge More For Your Product?

My partner Seth Levine has an outstanding post up today about the freemium model.  It’s titled Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your [...]

August 14, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld