Slice of Lime Celebrates 10 Years and Focuses on User Interface Design

As some of you may know, we made a modest investment in Slice of Lime in 2007. This year, Slice of Lime is celebrating 10 years of being in business.

October 4, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurial Density Revisted

I’m in San Francisco right now and then New York later this week. When I look at my schedule, and where I’m hanging out, I realize that even though I’m

October 3, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Double Long Weekend Run

A few years ago my running coach – Gary Ditsch of Endurance Base Camp – introduced me to the idea of a “double long run.” In this I do the

October 2, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Predictable Flood of Politics Oriented Web Startups

I received at least one email a day last week pitching a politics oriented web startup. The emails start off something like this. Over $8 billion dollars will be spent

October 1, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Sympoz Is Looking for a VP of Marketing

We recently invested in an exciting company called Sympoz. They are searching for a great head of marketing. Sympoz, based in Denver, was founded in May 2010 by an experienced team. They

September 29, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Want TechStars Clothing?

The official TechStars Store is up. Shirts, hats, hoodies, and stickers. And of course the books Do More Faster and Venture Deals. What – no sweatbands? Cohen – we need sweatbands.

September 29, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Joining The Board of Startup Weekend

I spent the day in Kansas City yesterday at the Kauffman Foundation for my first Startup Weekend board meeting. I’m very stingy with my non-profit board activity after deciding in

September 28, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Tenacious and Oblivious

I’ve often said that two emotions that are irrelevant for an entrepreneur are fear and anxiety. My favorite quote from Dune is “Fear is the mindkiller” and many people get

September 27, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

StillSecure Announces Cloud Security Solution and Partnership with SoftLayer

StillSecure has been nailing it in the service provider segment with deals with XO, ViaWest, CoreSite, and others recently. StillSecure fundamentally believes that service providers – telcos, datacent

September 26, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurs: Just Say No To Super Pro-Rata Rights

On Friday, I saw a tweet from Chris Sacca about super pro-rata rights that said “Seeing a lot of VCs cram super-prorata terms into deals. Feels uncool to me. Any

September 26, 2011 · 5 min · Brad Feld