Marathon Running and Lying Don't Mix

“Success rests in having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you were destined to be.” – Dr. George Sheehan When I heard that presidential

September 30, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

FAKEGRIMLOCK's Guest Lecture At Harvard Business School

FAKEGRIMLOCK showed up recently at HBS to give a short lecture on Minimum Viable Personality. In Grimspeak, IT AWESOME. If you want more of FAKEGRIMLOCK, go check his post on

September 28, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Recruiting Event Hosted by Foundry Group's Bay Area Startups

If you are looking for a cool job in the bay area, go take a look at the recruiting event happening on 10/5/12 organized by a bunch of our portfolio

September 27, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Have Every New Employee Do Customer Support For Two Weeks

A few weeks ago an entrepreneur of a fast growing consumer-oriented company told me that he has every new employee do customer support for two weeks. Their approach is they

September 27, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Startup Communities is Shipping

It’s hard to describe the satisfaction of “shipping” your product. I know many of you out there have done it many times and I expect you know what I’m talking

September 26, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

My Awesome Experience With Retrofit

When I started Retrofit last fall, I weighed 216. I’ve struggled for a decade to get below 210 – it would happen sometimes but I’d quickly end back up in

September 24, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

SkyDrive Is Great and No One Has Noticed

In July I wrote a post where I was Searching For A Collaborative Writing Tool. I got a bunch of suggestions – some people suggested their startups, some suggested Google Docs,

September 22, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Apply Today For TechStars Cloud 2013

This is the second year that TechStars is running a thematic accelerator in Texas focused just on cloud computing. At Foundry Group, we believe in thematic investing both as a

September 20, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurs Unplugged Monday 9/24 With BlogFrog

On Monday night 9/24 from 6:15 to 7:45 I’m co-hosting the first Entrepreneurs Unplugged session of Fall 2012 at CU Boulder. We’ll be at ATLAS in Room 100 and I’ll

September 20, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Startup Communities Is Available Now On Kindle

As an author, it’s always incredibly exciting to get the actual finished version of a book I’ve written. While I still haven’t seen a physical version of Startup Communities (it

September 19, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld