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

Monthly Dinner With My Brother

Last night I had dinner with my brother Daniel, one of the partners at Slice of Lime, a Boulder-based web design and development firm. He and I were at TechStars

May 20, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Deep Breath

This morning, as I cranked through my 5am – 7am routine (which ends at 6am today because I have to leave the house at 630am to get to CU Boulder

May 18, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Best Tech Conference Of The Year Happens In Boulder Next Week

The Glue Conference is next week – 5/25 and 5/26 – in Boulder.  When Eric Norlin and my partner Seth Levine first cooked up the idea for glue, they built

May 16, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Implementing Social Media's Secret Weapon

Fred Wilson had an excellent post up this morning titled Social Media’s Secret Weapon – Email. I completely agree that email is the key communications channel for social media and

May 14, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Working On, Rather Than In, Your Business

I spent the day yesterday in Kansas City at the Kauffman Foundation with about 20 women entrepreneurs who were the E&Y Winning Women from 2008, 2009, and 2010. As part

May 12, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld