Dear VCs: What Happens When Your Words And Your Actions Don't Match

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a post Your Words Should Match Your Actions. It was a generic rant that resulted from me watching a couple of VCs blow up their

July 12, 2014 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Digital Paralysis

I heard a great phrase from Jenna Walker at Artifact Uprising yesterday. We had a Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado meeting with her and her partner and in the middle of the discussion

July 11, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Deconstructing The Mentor Manifesto

Last night we had the Techstars Boulder Mentor Kickoff dinner. It’s an annual tradition at Techstars – we have a dinner for all mentors before we start the program. It’s

July 9, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book: The Alliance

Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh have written an outstanding and important book called The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. I encourage you to get a copy

July 8, 2014 · 4 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

Do People Treat Me Differently Since I Talk Openly About Depression?

As Amy and I get ready to return to Boulder today and physically re-enter the human race, I woke up this morning thinking about how I’m feeling emotionally. We’ve had

July 5, 2014 · 5 min · Brad Feld

The Declaration of Independence

I love origin stories. The moment of the beginning of something new, or a key point in the founding of something, is always powerful to me. On the 238th birthday

July 4, 2014 · 7 min · Brad Feld

Using Startup Next To Get Your Company Accelerator-Ready

Getting into an accelerator is increasingly difficult. While there has been a proliferation accelerators around the world, there has simultaneously been a dramatically increasing number of companies a

June 30, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

When VCs Invest Together, Does Ability or Affinity Matter?

I woke up to a bunch of VC related things in my twitter stream this morning. I had a nice digital sabbath yesterday so I was a little surprised by how much

June 29, 2014 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Going Beyond Amazon: A New Model for Authors, Retailers, and Publishers

As many of you know, I have a keen interest in the future of digital publishing. One of the reasons we started FG Press was to give control and transparency back to

June 26, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld