Entrepreneurial Communities Must Be Led By Entrepreneurs

I’m about to head out to TechStars New York Demo Day. Our investment in SideTour – one of the TechStars New York companies – was announced yesterday and I’m excited

October 18, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Brews and Views – Deciphering What The $@%@$ Entrepreneurs Really Need to Know About Investors

Our friends at Dorsey & Whitney are hosting me and Jason Mendelson this Thursday, October 20th from 4pm to 6pm to drink beer together and discuss “what really matters” in a venture dea

October 17, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Amica Newport Rhode Island Marathon

Marathon #19 in the “run a marathon in each of the 50 states” is done. I completed #19 in Newport, Rhode Island yesterday. The course was beautiful, the day was

October 17, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

What Is How?

My friend Dov Seidman, the CEO of LRN, has a new edition of his book How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything out. In this copy, the forward is by

October 16, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing – Applications Are Open

Last week I was called out on a blog titled Stop Squawking; Embody The Change. In it, Nilofer Merchant (the writer) asserts that while my writing about the lack women in tech

October 15, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Execution Is An Order Of Magnitude Easier Than Opportunity

I heard a fascinating one-liner the other day that I had knee jerk negative reaction to but when I thought about it more thought was deeply insightful, especially in the

October 13, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Virgin America Nails Connected Travel

I travel a lot. I’m not a particularly high maintenance traveller as I can sleep from wheels up to wheels down on most flights. When I fly west to east

October 13, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

How Convertible Debt Works

Last night I gave a talk hosted by SVB at their Palo Alto office. It was part of the “Never Ending All Old Is New Again Venture Deals Book Tour.”

October 12, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Apply To TechStars Cloud Now

Are you building a cloud startup? If so, apply to TechStars Cloud today! Earlier this month TechStars announced its newest accelerator program, TechStars Cloud, and we are looking for the best cloud [

October 11, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Revenue vs. Income

Put this in the pet peeve rant category. I’m tired of “Revenue” being referred to as “Income.” Yes – I know Quickbooks defaults to “Income.” I know it

October 10, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld