Give Before You Get

This first appeared in my LinkedIn Today column titled Give Before You Get. I post unique content on LinkedIn a few times a month (I ultimately reblog it here) but

January 1, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book: Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 – 5)

I received a bunch of great scifi suggestions from my post The Best Science Fiction Books of All Time. One of them was Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 – 5)

December 31, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Ignore Trends and Predictions

This first appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Accelerator series last week under the title Don’t Believe the Hype. Every year, at this time, I get a flurry of requests for my

December 30, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Mess of a Second Edition Book

The Second Edition of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist just started shipping. It’s new and improved, fixes a bunch of little mistakes that we listed

December 29, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Will 2013 Be Harder For Startups Than 2012?

tl;dr: Fuck, I don’t know. I’m not in the prediction business. But plan for it. And behave accordingly. A lot of people have been talking about how 2013 will be

December 28, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Christmas Isn't Awesome For Everyone

This is a tough time of year for a lot of people. I used to be one of them. And I’ve gotten over it, and myself, which I attribute 100%

December 26, 2012 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Hope Is Critical To A Strategy

There has been a cliche going around the last decade or so that goes “hope is not a strategy.” It inspired a book titled Hope Is Not a Strategy: The

December 25, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

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