The Benefit of Mentor Whiplash

Fred Wilson had a post yesterday titled Mentor/Investor Whiplash. His recommendations for dealing with it can be summarized as “collect all the data, think about it, discount what investors have

July 30, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Be a DataHero!

I’ve been fighting with creating charts and data visualizations – well – forever. Anyone remember VisiPlot and VisiTrend? Harvard Graphics? Eventually Excel dominated for a while, bu

July 26, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen, co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” They are making

July 25, 2013 · 6 min · Brad Feld

$200,000 For Colorado Startup Community Activities and Events

I’m excited to announce the launch of the Colorado Startup Community Fund. This is a $200,000 fund for providing financing to support activities, events, and organizations in the Colorado startu

July 24, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Battlestar Galactica KPI

As Amy and I get to the end of Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica, I’m noticing more and more management and leadership lessons. Oh – and it’s awesome SciFi. In

July 22, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Humans and Robots Dancing in the Tesla Model S Factory

My partner Jason Mendelson sent me a five minute video from Wired that shows how a Telsa Model S is built. I watched from my condo in downtown Boulder as

July 18, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Startup Communities Are Up To The Entrepreneurs

As I continue to talk about Startup Communities, I say over and over and over again that the leaders have to be entrepreneurs. Everyone else – who I call the

July 17, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Proposed SEC Rules Undermine The Goal Of The JOBS Act

The JOBS Act, which was approved by Congress and signed by President Obama with much fanfare over a year ago, was intended to help small business. It is, after all,

July 16, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurial Density and Venture Capital

Richard Florida continues to write amazing stuff about Startup Communities in The Atlantic Online. Two of his latest articles talk about entrepreneurial density and venture capital. High-Tech Challeng

July 15, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Awesomeness of Battlestar Galactica

I was totally fried and fighting off a cold yesterday so I decided to spend my digital sabbath on the couch watching Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica. I took a

July 14, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld