The Quora For X

Suddenly the VC/entrepreneur meme for Q1-2011 is “The Quora for X.” Here are two examples from the past few days: Google Ventures Leads $600K Investment In LawPivot, A Quora For

January 20, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Who's LOLing Now?

Today we announced that Foundry Group took a bite out of Cheezburger as we led a $30m financing of the company that started out by bringing you cute cate pictures.

January 18, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurs Unplugged With Pete Sheinbaum on 1/24/10

It’s time for Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged to start up again. In case you don’t know what this is, I moderate a monthly interview series each semester with Brad Bernthal.

January 17, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book: The Startup Game

After writing Do More Faster with David Cohen, I have deep appreciation for the effort involved in writing a book. After reading a bunch of entrepreneurship books, I’ve decided there

January 17, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Snow in Seattle

I spent the day in Seattle yesterday, starting off with an awesome early morning run along the ocean near downtown and ending the day walking back with some folks from

January 12, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Avalon Ventures Raises A New $200 Million Fund And Gets A New Website

Congrats to my friends at Avalon Ventures on raising their new $200 million fund.  I’ve been friends with and co-invested with Rich Levandov, one of Avalon’s partners, since the mid-1990

January 10, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Implied Suspicion Versus Implied Trust

I just had an exchange with an entrepreneur that I don’t know.  It went something like the following via several emails over the course of a week. Entrepreneur: I’m working

January 8, 2011 · 4 min · Brad Feld

24 Hours In Las Vegas With My Dad

Last night during my two mile post dinner walk from the Hard Rock (where I had an awesome dinner at Nobu) to the Venetian (where I subsequently had a very

January 7, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Orbotix Sphero at CES

Today’s fun “company at CES that Foundry Group has invested in” is Orbotix.  They’ll be in their booth #4419 in the North Hall iLounge.  Orbotix makes Sphero, the world’s

January 6, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Sifteo's Revolutionary Tabletop Games

Several of the companies we’ve invested in are launching products at CES this year.  The first one up is Sifteo.  Today, Sifteo launched and you can preorder Siftables as part of their

January 5, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld