Building Startup Communities to Last

One of my heroes is Jim Collins. Of all books that I’ve ever read about business, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies and Good to Great: Why Some

November 21, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

It’s Award Season At Occipital

Just under two months ago, Occipital launched their new Structure Sensor on Kickstarter. Over the course of 45 days, it raised more than $1.2M to become the 6th most funded tech-category

November 19, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Focus Focus Focus

In my mid-20s I was part of an amazing experience called Birthing of Giants. It was a gathering of 60 entrepreneurs over four days (for three years) who were all

November 19, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Little Colorado Company MobileDay Finds Big Hole In Enterprise Bucket

I’m a seed investor in MobileDay, a Boulder-based company that has helped its users make over two million mobile-based conference calls in the past few months. Its popularity comes from

November 18, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Ari Newman is an entrepreneur, mentor, investor, and a friend. He works at Techstars where his responsibility is to ensure that the connections between alumni, mentors, and staff are as

November 18, 2013 · 9 min · Brad Feld

Happy 7th Birthday Techstars

It’s amazing to me that Techstars is now 7 years old. We are involved in over 300 active companies who have now raised over $400 million. 27 of them have

November 14, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Time to Flip Power In America Upside Down

I’m totally sick and exhausted with our federal government. Boehner’s statement yesterday on immigration, where he said “We have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senat

November 14, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

BookShout! at the Boulder Library – November 14th

As a part of Startup Phenomenon, I’m going to spend a half hour with Jason Illian, the CEO of BookShout!, on Thursday, November 14th at 4:30pm. It’ll be at the

November 13, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Getting a New Receptionist with TextUs.Biz

While I have nothing against receptionists, I’ve always felt like it was a thankless job that should be able to easily be replaced by the machines. Many of the people

November 12, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Hangout On Air With Me and David Cohen on Wed 11/13/13

David Cohen (Techstars Founder) and I are doing a Google Hangout On Air that is open to anyone on 11/13/13 (what a prime day for something like this). It’s part of

November 12, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld