Use Your Competitors' Products All The Time

I was sitting with the founders of a company we’ve funded the other day talking about their competition. I love this product and I use it every day. It doesn’t yet have

July 25, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

What Should You Do When Someone Rips Off Your Site Design

I recently received the following email. I am in a bit of a dilemma and would really appreciate any insight you all have on what to do. Last month, my team

July 18, 2014 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Power of Being Human in Business Development

I’ve had some really crummy experiences with business and corporate development people in the past year. There’s been a strange change in ethos, where suddenly people have forgotten that w

July 6, 2014 · 5 min · Brad Feld

How Does A Small Company Make A Big Company Successful?

Every single day I have multiple conversations and emails from CEOs and people at companies I work with about how to work with Big Tech Companies. You know – Google,

June 26, 2014 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Take Responsibility For Your Company's Actions

Recently I had  a full day of meetings with chaotic juxtapositions of people. In one meeting, the person I interacted with was awesome. He owned everything that was going on in

June 12, 2014 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Right Way To Do A Software ROI Analysis

On Monday we had a Foundry Group portfolio company sales summit. We are fortunate in that we’ve got a bunch of amazing sales execs in our portfolio, including several CEOs

June 4, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld

I Will Instead of We Should

While driving down Highway 36 from Boulder to Denver for a FullContact board meeting, TA McCann told me a wonderful phrase that I’ve been carrying around with me for the

April 28, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Improv and Entrepreneurship – Playback Theatre West

I spent the last few days at CEO Bootcamp – Leadership Reboot. It’s run by my close friend Jerry Colonna with an awesome team of four. The next one is

April 6, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Mix Strong Opinions With Big Open Ears

Gluecon’s early bird pricing ends Friday, April 4th and I wanted to make sure you got the chance to register prior to the registration rates going up. When we started Gluecon with

April 2, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Expectations for Outside Board Members

For those of you that missed my note yesterday, I’m going to start using the first paragraph of my posts with an announcement about something in my world. Today’s is

April 1, 2014 · 8 min · Brad Feld