Guidelines For Interviewing At A Startup

My long time friend Chris Moody, president and COO of Gnip, has offered to write some guest posts on management – we’ll call the series Moody on Management. In addition

May 11, 2012 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Recruiting Software Developers By Showing Up With Pizza

Once again we are in a zone where hiring software developers is incredibly challenging. The market is fully employed and while there is some movement between companies, great developers tend

May 3, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A Great CEO Is Always Building Muscles

I get to work with a lot of great CEOs. When I reflect on what makes them great, one thing sticks out – they are always building their muscles. All

April 24, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Why I'm Joining The Application Developers Alliance Board of Directors

I spend all of my working time in the domain of software, Internet, and entrepreneurship. Over the past few years I’ve gotten increasingly involved in a handful of political situations

April 2, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Retrospective Addiction Of A Madman Post Board Meeting

I love getting post board meeting emails that are retrospectives from execs in the meeting. This one came a week ago from Jeff Malek, the CTO and co-founder of BigDoor.

February 21, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

What Makes An Awesome Board Member?

Over the past two years I’ve been struggling mightily with the dynamics of “classical VC funded board of directors” and how these boards work. When I hear a VC say

February 2, 2012 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Resegment If You Aren't In The Top Three

Six months ago I wrote a post about how I think about competition which included a list of topics that summarizes my philosophy. I covered the first item, Be The First

January 23, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

My World Is A Network

This post should be sung to the tune of The World Is A Vampire by the Smashing Pumpkins “the world is a vampire, sent to drain secret destroyers, hold you up

January 20, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Ring That Gong Loud

One of the companies I’m an investor in has a gong in the office. They bang it every time they sign up a new customer. They also have a virtual

January 8, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

More On Recruiting Programmers To Your Startup

Chris Dixon had an excellent post yesterday titled Recruiting programmers to your startup. The post, and the comments, are full of super useful stuff that every entrepreneur should read carefully. I [

December 30, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld