Help Me With Some Bathroom Inspiration

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know that one of my curious obsessions is bathrooms. I don’t have an explanation for it – just chalk it

August 11, 2007 · 3 min · Brad Feld

A CEOs Thoughts on Collaboration

I had breakfast with Matt Blumberg – the CEO of Return Path – yesterday. I’ve worked with Matt for at least six years and love the way his brain works.

August 9, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A Significant Interview

My friends Larry and Pat Nelson of w3w3.com interviewed me last week. The word of the interview appears to be “significant.” Feel free to play bozo bingo and count the

July 30, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A State Between Broke and Funded

Andrew Hyde – a new friend and the creator of Startup Weekend – has a great post up today that all entrepreneurs should read for that warm moment of identification

July 26, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Seth's Summary of Startup Weekend

My partner Seth Levine has written an excellent summary of Startup Weekend. It’s hard for me to fathom that it happened merely a week ago. As I sit here early this

July 15, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Passive-Aggressive Behavior Is Useless In A Startup

If you are making the move from a big company to a startup, Scott Converse has a must read post up about passive-aggressive behavior titled Corporate vs. Startup behaviors. I

July 9, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Complicated Mistakes

At lunch today, I interviewed my dad for the TechStars gang. It was fun and he used two of my favorite Stan Feld-isms. “Complicated Mistakes” Most people – especially engineers

July 6, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Strategy vs. Fundamentals

Creating companies is hard. Most fail. Overnight success is rare (my favorite “overnight success stories” are the ones that take 10+ years, like iRobot or Harmonix.) Whil

June 24, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Awesome Blogging From Marc Andreessen

What Fred said. Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Netscape, Opsware, and Ning) has been blogging up a storm and it’s awesome. His post from yesterday titled The Pmarca Guide t

June 19, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Should You Force Your Investors To Use Your Product?

I had the following exchange with the CEO of one of my investments the other day. Q (Brad): It’s strange to me that only a few of the investors /

June 19, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld