After Your First Big Success, What's Next?

As exits have been flowing nicely again the past few years, many of the entrepreneurs I work with have experienced their first big exit. I refer to this moment as

June 6, 2014 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Cable Company Fuckery

John Oliver and his new show Last Week Tonight has become Sunday night entertainment in my house. He’s simultaneously brilliant and hilarious. Oliver took on Net Neutrality on Sunday. Due to my

June 5, 2014 · 2 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

Venture Deals Class With The Kauffman Fellows Academy – Version 2

This spring Jason Mendelson and I taught a class called Venture Deals with the Kauffman Fellows Academy. It was a blast so we’ve decided to do it again. KFA uses

June 3, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Help – I'm in Email Group Hell

Lately, I’ve been struggling to figure out the best way to have expanding email groups. I’ve tried all the obvious stuff and nothing is satisfying to me. Historically, I’ve just used

June 2, 2014 · 1 min · Brad Feld

In Downtown Las Vegas at the UP Global Summit

I just landed in Downtown Las Vegas for my first trip for business in over a year. I’m here for the UP Global Summit and then our UP Global board

May 30, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Colorado CEO Jobs List

A few years ago, David Cohen and I started a Colorado CEO Jobs list in response to the regular stream of inbound email we got from folks looking to move

May 29, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Why VCs Should Recycle Their Management Fees

I’m an investor in a bunch of VC funds. Some of them recycle their management fees; others don’t. I’ve never really understood why funds don’t recycle their management fees. Un

May 28, 2014 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Tickets for #BoulderWin Event – June 4th

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an event a bunch of us in the Boulder startup community are putting together called #BoulderWin, a celebration for the sale of Gnip to

May 27, 2014 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Spending The Day With Another VC Firm

A few weeks ago Hunter Walk and Satya Patel of Homebrew, a one year old seed-stage VC firm that my partners and I are investors in, came and spent the day

May 27, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld