TechStars 2011 Startup Madness Tournament

Who said March Madness was only for college basketball fans? I’m a proud nerd, am pretty good at basketball, but my college team (MIT) never ahem did much in March

March 7, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

How To Score 30 Minutes With Me

Long ago I concluded that life is just a video game. We fly on airplanes to get mileage points so we can get free stuff and or level up to

March 6, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

An Amazing Deal on Manpacks

My latest foray into the Daily Deal universe is up – and it’s a 50% offer on Manpacks. If you are a guy and aren’t familiar with Manpacks, it’s an easy

March 3, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Deciding Not To Do Something

My partners at Foundry Group and I decided not to do something after a month of thoughtful deliberation. The decision is fresh so I’m not going to talk about the

March 2, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Starting-Up In America

If you’ve been following the Startup Visa, you may know that the bills that were submitted in both the House and the Senate expired at the end of the 2010

March 1, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Crowdsourcing The Title of My Next Book

My partner Jason Mendelson and I are in the final stretch of writing a new book. The project started as an extension of our Term Sheet series and Letter of

February 28, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Signal vs. Noise

At the end of each day, I encourage you to reflect on whether you spent your day on “signal” or “noise.” Let me explain. Recently, I wrote a post titled

February 27, 2011 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Disabling Horizontal Scroll on the Mac

I love when the combination of Google Search and the a great discussion board quickly solve something that has been driving me batshit for a while. I finally stopped procrastinating

February 26, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Dear Google, I Have More Than 10,000 Contacts

I just received the “amusing email of the day” from Google. I feel like I’m in one step forward / one step back with Google Enterprise Support. If you read

February 25, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Why A New Startup Shouldn't Have a Marketing Budget

As my partners at Foundry Group know, every time I hear the word “marketing” I throw up a little in my mouth. I hate traditional marketing and have always resisted

February 25, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld