JOMO – The Joy of Missing Out

Recently, I discovered a neat new acronym, JOMO, which stands for the “Joy Of Missing Out.” While FOMO is an endless part of all things technology, entrepreneurship, and investing, I

October 10, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Thought Leadership vs. Cult of Personality

In 2011, my now-partner Chris Moody (and then-CEO of Gnip, which I was on the board of) kicked my butt about my endless statements about hating marketing. His thoughts on

October 4, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Venture Deals Online Course – Fall 2019

Techstars and Kauffman Fellows are once again running the Venture Deals online course that Jason Mendelson and I put together several years ago. If you’re an entrepreneur who wants to

August 15, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Why Gross Profit Is More Important Than Revenue

I’ve been thinking a lot about gross profit (and gross margin) lately. Yeah, I know I can be riveting, but stay with me. When I was in Boston a while

July 9, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Deeply Vulnerable Writing on Startup Failure

Jasper Nathaniel recently wrote a long, detailed post titled When Your Startup Fails. It may be the most vulnerable and honest post I’ve read on failure, certainly in a while.

June 7, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Bad Entrepreneurial Cliches: Strong Opinions Loosely Held

Michael Natkin at Glowforge recently wrote a great post titled Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech. I have never liked this entrepreneurial cliche. While I

May 23, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

LinkedIn Learning: Raising Venture Capital and Validating Your Startup Idea

I recently recorded two free courses with LinkedIn Learning. They are each under an hour long and broken up into a bunch of small segments. The first one is on

May 1, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Gluecon 2019 Diversity Scholarships

Amy and I are underwriting the Gluecon 2019 Diversity Scholarships through our Anchor Point Foundation. Kim and Eric Norlin, who run Gluecon, have had a simple goal around diversity at

March 22, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Implicit Gender Bias in Startup Funding

While there have been many words written about gender bias in the context of entrepreneurship and funding, I thought the following TED Talk from Dana Kanze presented one of the

January 15, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

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It’s the second week of December, which is about the time that all of the predictions for 2019 start occurring. Last week’s announcements of the confidential S-1 filing of Lyft,

December 10, 2018 · 3 min · Brad Feld