Book: Ender's Game

My post The Best Science Fiction Books of All Time from a few weeks ago got 100+ comments with some amazing suggestions. I’d read a bunch of them, but I discovered a

December 24, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Maxims To Chew On From My Interview With 33voices

A month or so ago I did an interview with Moe Abdou of 33voices. I do a lot of interviews, but this one stood out to me as Moe did a

December 23, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Boulder Startup Community

David Cohen just put up The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boulder Startup Community. It’s a short presentation that you can look at below and is a great way to get

December 22, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Angry, Hostile, and Bitter Is Not A Winning Strategy

We are sandwiched between Thanksgiving and Christmas in a country that is recovering emotionally from two disasters named Sandy – one natural (Hurricane Sandy) and one man-made (Sandy Hook). Our

December 21, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Help Bring Xconomy to Boulder/Denver

I’ve been a huge fan of Xconomy since its debut several years ago. It’s been a refreshing resource for a bunch of startup communities, including Boston (where it started) and

December 20, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Nexus: Awesome Near Term Science Fiction

Nope – I’m not talking about an Android phone. I’m talking about an amazing book titled Nexus by Ramez Naam. Ramez sent me a pre-release version last month. I read it

December 18, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Startups Looking to Hire CU Students?

In the Startup Communities, I talk extensively about leaders and feeders. I assert than anyone in the startup community should be able to start / create / do anything that is

December 18, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Hire For Cultural Fit Over Competence

This first appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Accelerator series last week under the title Cultural Fit Trumps Competence. Also, I’m going to be doing online office hours with the WSJ o

December 18, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Can You Ski Off The Top Of The Train In Polar Express?

I love the emails I get from readers of this blog. Yesterday morning, I got the following from Shane Schieffer of FitTrip and I just saw it as I was grinding through

December 17, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

It's Startup, Not Start-up or Start Up

When I created Startup Revolution and began writing Startup Communities, I insisted with Wiley (my publisher) that the word be “startup” and not “start-up” or “start up

December 15, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld