Video Interview: We Suck Less

Steve Bell of Startup Trek came to Boulder about a month ago and did an interview with a bunch of Boulder people, including me.  Following is part one (12 minutes)

January 28, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A Scorecard For Boston’s Innovation Economy

Over the past eighteen months I’ve gotten to know Bill Warner through my work with the Boston program of TechStars.  Bill was a well known entrepreneur when I lived in

January 26, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

It’s So Hard When Contemplated In Advance And So Easy When You Do It

I heard this phrase at about 75 minutes into my run this morning.  It’s from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a book I’ve read a half dozen times

January 25, 2010 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Procrastinating On A Sunday Afternoon

While the rest of the US is watching football, I thought I’d sit quietly at my house and catch up on some writing, most notably what David Cohen, Entrepreneur Magazine,

January 24, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

NewsGator Acquires Tomoye

My friends at NewsGator had a great 2009 – enterprise social computing came into its own and they were at the front of the pack.  If an organization uses SharePoint

January 21, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Letters to My Dad

I recently turned 44.  As I was driving in to the office the other day, I was talking to my dad and we were reminiscing about something.  He’s one of

January 20, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneur Magazine Interviews Boulder Entrepreneurs (and a VC)

Amy Cosper, the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, swung through Boulder recently and interviewed me, Scott McDaniel & Christian Vaneh of Survey Gizmo, Ari Newman of Filtrbox (recently acqu

January 20, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Why You Should Start A Company In Boulder, New York, or Somewhere Else

A few weeks ago Fast Company published an interview between me and Laura Rich titled Why You Should Start a Company in… Boulder.  This morning I woke up to Fred

January 20, 2010 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Other Planets Are Beautiful Places

I’ve really enjoyed my time on this planet so far and look forward to many other years here.  If Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Heinlein are to be

January 19, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Google Voice Was So Very Close To Working

I hate the telephone.  I hate voice mail.  I’ve tried hard to simplify how this works in my world.  I only have two phone numbers (my cell phone and my

January 19, 2010 · 4 min · Brad Feld