Identify Leaders By Giving People Assignments

As the Boulder Startup Community evolved, I started to become inundated with people who wanted to get involved. Some of these were locals while others where people looking to move

December 29, 2014 · 5 min · Brad Feld

The Endless Struggle That Boulder Has With Itself

I’ve now lived in Boulder for 19 years. It was an amazing place when I moved here and has evolved into an even more stupendous place over the past 19

December 28, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Asimov's I, Robot and Hertling's The Turing Exception

William Hertling is one of my top five favorite contemporary sci-fi writers. Last night, I finished the beta (pre-copyedited) version of his newest book, The Turing Exception. It’s not out yet,

December 27, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Great Boxing Day Data Cleanse of 2014

I just spent around an hour shrinking my Facebook friends list from 1,500+ to 535. I ignored another 2,000 friend requests. I made my entire Facebook feed from the beginning of

December 26, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Mentors 9/18: Clearly Separate Opinion From Fact

I’m in the home stretch of my next book co-authored with Sean Wise, titled Startup Opportunities: Know When To Quit Your Day Job, so I thought I’d procrastinate a little this

December 26, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Bora Bora Biographies

I read over 40 books in my month off the grid in Bora Bora recently. I’ve had many requests to blog about my reading list but rather than do one big

December 25, 2014 · 5 min · Brad Feld

My Recently Erratic World of the Gmail Spam Filter

Let’s start with a brief history of my investment-led fight against the perils of spam and my never-ending love of SMTP. We were investors in Postini and my partner Ryan sat

December 24, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

There is a moment during the exploration of a new relationship where a switch flips and the answer is “I want to do this.” With Mattermark, I remember the moment

December 23, 2014 · 6 min · Brad Feld

MIT People Are Really Good At Math

I rarely read physical magazines anymore. I only read in the bathroom and most are things I forget to unsubscribe to or that Amy gives me. Today, I finished the

December 22, 2014 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Interview, Censorship, Terrorism, Dr. Evil, and Lots of Other Stuff

I’m gearing up for a long series of posts about the various books I read on my month off on Bora Bora. In the mean time, I read a bunch

December 21, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld