Founder Mental Health Pledge

Since the middle of last week, there has been extreme stress on founders, startup leaders, and the extended startup community. This stress accelerated on Friday when the FDIC shut down

March 14, 2023 · 3 min · Brad Feld

An Investment in Board Diversity

Research shows that more diverse teams perform better and are more innovative than homogeneous teams. I’ve written about this before, and it’s covered extensively in my book Startup Boards: A

March 9, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Honoring Cecelia Feld on International Women's Day 2023

Today is International Women’s Day. Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where dif

March 8, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Gluecon 13: 2023

GlueCon will occur for the thirteenth time, on May 24th-25th, in Broomfield, Colorado. My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need

March 6, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Venture Deals 4e German Edition

There have been many different language translations of Venture Deals since it was first published in 2012. The first German translation of Venture Deals 4e is out, and Florian Kreis

February 28, 2023 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Venture Deals Spring 2023 Course

The course is free and starts on March 21, 2023. This is the third time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows.

February 16, 2023 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Afghan Dreamers at BIFF 2023

Amy and I have been sponsors of the Boulder International Film Festival for a while. We’ve also been helping fund documentaries and have received several executive producer credits. Two of

February 13, 2023 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The MIT Banana Lounge

I’ve co-founded or been an early investor in many things. One of my favorites is the MIT Banana Lounge. I will be hanging out there Tuesday afternoon and doing an

January 30, 2023 · 3 min · Brad Feld

AI and the HyperEncabulator

Dave Jilk and I had a long discussion last night, which included some rambling about AI. If you have been following me for a while, you know that in 2010

January 29, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book: Please Report Your Bug Here

Some day there will be a genre called “startup fiction.” I mean, if science fiction, which is a sub-genre of fiction, can have libertarian science fiction and recursive science fiction, [&

January 23, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld