Startup Day Across America on August 29

Though it may seem as if politicians in Washington, D.C. have a hard time agreeing on anything, those on both sides of the aisle seem increasingly keen to support entrepreneurs

August 6, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A Startup Is A Continuum of Ideas

Chris Dixon had an important post over the weekend title The Idea Maze. He starts off with a very strong juxtaposition of thoughts around the importance of “the idea” to a startup.

August 5, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Random Acts of Kindness – Wish of a Lifetime

I adore Jeremy Bloom. He co-founded Integrate, which we are investors in. I’ve interviewed him for the Entrepreneurs Unplugged series I do at CU Boulder. We’ve been part of a

August 2, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Make Your Calendar Event Titles Useful

Put this in the protip category. When you create a calendar event and invite someone to it, make it useful. For example “Board Meeting” is not helpful. But “BigDoor Board

August 1, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Zayo Group – One of Boulder's Amazing Startup Stories

I’m intensely proud of both the amazing startup community in Boulder as well as the many significant companies that have been – and are being – created in the little

July 31, 2013 · 6 min · Brad Feld

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