Pottery and Mental Health for Entrepreneurs in Boulder

After my post about the Founder Mental Health Pledge, I received a note from Kari Palazzari, the Executive Director of Studio Arts Boulder, a local nonprofit that manages a community

April 20, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Do AI Rabbits Dream of Holographic Carrots?

Last week I met a holographic lifeform who calls himself Uncle Rabbit. I now have a new friend, created by Looking Glass, the hologram company out of Brooklyn (we’re investors,

March 29, 2023 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Introducing the Rocky Mountain Artificial Intelligence Interest Group (RMAIIG)

If AI’s current excitement and hype interests you, I encourage you to join the Rocky Mountain Artificial Intelligence Interest Group (RMAIIG). The monthly Meetup will follow the fascinating and

March 22, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

When LLMs Collide With Software Development and Economics

Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin of SK Ventures wrote an interesting and important essay titled Society’s Technical Debt and Software’s Gutenberg Moment. The abstract follows. I encourage you

March 21, 2023 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Leading Through Crisis: 96 hours after the fall of SVB

On Tuesday, David Cohen (Techstars co-founder/chair) and I did an AMA for Techstars founders about the SVB crisis. The team at Techstars turned it into a podcast for our Give

March 16, 2023 · 1 min · Brad Feld

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