What Do Tijuana and Minneapolis Have In Common?

We believe great companies can be created anywhere. When we started Foundry Group, we hypothesized that 33% of our investments would be in Colorado, 33% would be in California, 33%

September 26, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Getting Your Demos Right

I get demos every day. Multiple times a day. I don’t want to see a powerpoint deck – I want to play with something. I don’t want to hear a

September 25, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Sprint and Techstars Launch Startup Accelerator for Mobile Health

Techstars has launched another “powered by” accelerator, this time with Sprint around mobile health. It’s based in Kansas City (Sprint’s headquarters) and is our fourth powered

September 24, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Get Your FAAAC On!

Last week, in the midst of Denver Startup Week, we had a full day Foundry Group Exec conference. Ben Deda from FullContact convened about 100 execs from our 60 or so

September 23, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Why Twitter's Confidential S-1 Filing Is A Good Thing

Did you know Twitter is going public? Of course you did – it’s all the mainstream media could seem to write about last week after the now infamous twitter tweet

September 20, 2013 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Scaling Up Yesware

Yesterday Yesware announced that Battery Ventures led a $13.5m round that we participated in. A few days ago Xconomy wrote a great article about the very first Yesware board meeting

September 19, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Power Of Mother Nature

I was going to blog about the Yesware $13.5 million financing but I’ve been buried in Denver Startup Week so I’ll do that tomorrow. I’ve continued to be emotionally distracted by

September 18, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Can Your Mobile Device Understand The World In 3D?

I love being involved in magical stuff. One of our portfolio companies, Occipital, just announced their newest product, the Structure Sensor. It’s available for purchase right now on Kickstarter

September 17, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Contributing To The Boulder Community In A Time Of Need

Today, my partners at Foundry Group and I are contributing $100,000 to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) to help with the Boulder Flood Relief Effort. This is our second

September 17, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Giving Back, Just as Boulder Needs It

In 2007 when I co-founded Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado with a bunch of folks our mission was to create wealth that we could give back to the community that has been

September 16, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld