The Brilliance of The Struggle

Ben Horowitz from Andreessen Horowitz has a beautiful post up titled The Struggle. He captures – in words – what many entrepreneurs, especially entrepreneurial CEOs go through. I’ve

June 18, 2012 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Startup Iceland Interview With The Brads (Feld and Burnham)

Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures) and I were in Iceland a few weeks ago for the Startup Iceland event. Bala Kamallakharan organized the event and moderated the discussion (and was an

June 17, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Megaupload and the Future of Multi-tenant Services

This is a post by Dave Jilk, a long time friend, business partner, and CEO of Standing Cloud. While the words are his, I agree 100% with everything he is

June 15, 2012 · 5 min · Brad Feld

It's Hard To Tell Someone They Suck

I discovered Josh Breinlinger’s blog this morning via a tweet from @stefanobernardi. I added it to the Ask the VC blogroll, read carefully through his post  VCs are liars. And so

June 15, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Power of TAGFEE and Just Executing

So far I’m pleased with my shift to Maker Mode this summer.  I’ve managed to get in a solid four hours of writing on my Startup Communities book each day

June 14, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Everyone Needs A Diversion

Everyone needs a diversion. We’ve updated our Foundry Group web site with the new Liquidation Preference beer photo. Yes – we make beer – or at least my partner Ryan

June 13, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

What's It Like To Be An Entrepreneur?

I get asked some version of this question, often in the form of “I’m thinking about becoming an entrepreneur”, every day. It’s awesome to me that lots of people are

June 13, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Startup Colorado: Looking Back on the First Year

Last week Startup Colorado hosted the Startup America Regional Summit which was a gathering of the leadership of over 25 different Startup State efforts under the structure of the Startup

June 12, 2012 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Book: Kill Decision

If quadcopters can play a James Bond song, it’s not far fetched that tens of thousands of them could become an autonomously controlled weapon controlled by software that simulates the

June 11, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Burning Entrepreneur v2.0

One of the super cool things about self publishing is that it’s really easy to make updates and release a new version. I released – with HyperInk’s help – the

June 11, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld