Gnip Partners With Twitter and U.S. Library of Congress

I recently wrote about how well things are going at Gnip. Here we are just a few weeks later and my friends at Gnip continue to generate goodness in several

June 8, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Joining The Reinventing The Board Meeting Bandwagon

I hate board meetings. I probably have 100 per year which means I’ve gone to well over 1,500 of the past 15 years (I’m sure the number is much higher).

June 7, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Thinking About 2015

Once a quarter my partners (Seth, Ryan, Jason) and I spend 48 hours together. Unlike a typical offsite that ten zillion organizations have, we tend to spend less time on

June 3, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Backing Up Your Google Apps Data

I find it endlessly entertaining that people say things like “I don’t need to back up my data anymore because it’s in the cloud.” These people have never experienced a

June 2, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

How Not To Start A Relationship

In the last month I’ve had the chance to make about 50 new friends. I’ve suddenly become very popular with investment bankers and have been on the receiving end of

June 1, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Marathon #17: Madison Marathon

Confidence restored. After a shitty marathon #16 in Cincinnati a month ago (5:24) I cranked out marathon #17 in Madison in 4:47:27. I dedicate this particular effort to my co-runner

May 30, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Inquiry As A Replacement For Self Doubt

I had several conversations with entrepreneurs this week who were struggling with a specific issue that had plagued them for a while. In each case these are strong, capable entrepreneurs

May 27, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Foundry Group Jobs Page

Many of our Foundry Group portfolio companies are growing rapidly. As a result, we just put up a new page on the Foundry Group website listing all of the jobs

May 24, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Title Inflation Emerges With A Vengence

Suddenly, title inflation is everywhere. I’ve seen more business cards or email sigs lately with adjectives like “executive” or “senior” or “senior executive”

May 23, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Calling All Angels In Boston

I’ve been spending some time with the current TechStars Boston class. This feels to me like the strongest class we’ve had in Boston so far and might be the one

May 22, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld