Three Entrepreneurial Books To Read Before You Turn 21

I regularly get asked some variant of “what books would you recommend to an entrepreneur.”  I typically send a quick email answer along with a link to the list of

August 21, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Are You A Wall Street Analyst Who Hates His/Her Job?

Or were you recently fired or laid off?  Or are you an analyst (especially someone in the typical two year pre-business school programs) at a consulting firm that hates your

August 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

An Example of Failing At Marketing Using Twitter

I don’t know who’s managing the District 9 twitter marketing campaign, but their abuse of twitter (via their creation of Twam – “twitter spam”) just caused me to decide not

August 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

TechStars: Episode 12: The Beginning

One of my favorite lines from TechStars is that “investor day is just the beginning”.  In this great wrap up of the TechStars 2009 video series, David Cohen says it

August 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

It’s Finally Time to Get Under 200 Pounds

The DailyBurn Fitness Challenge started today.  For those of you that don’t know DailyBurn, it’s one of the TechStars Boulder 2008 companies (it used to be called Gyminee).  More on

August 17, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Terms, Terms, and First Round Terms

Fred Wilson has a nice post up titled The Ideal First Round Term Sheet.  In it he describes the process of closing a financing using a standard set of Series

August 17, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

A Random Hodgepodge of Daily Reading

Tired of the health care debate?  There’s a ton of other great stuff out there today.  Here’s some of the things I came across on my Sunday morning pre-run scan

August 16, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

VC Behavior in Board Meetings

There was plenty of chatter about my post The Best Board Meetings.  One idea popped up a few times and was well articulated by John Boyd in his post What

August 13, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

I’m Jealous of My Dogs

They seem to be having a very nice day. Good thing the coyote didn’t catch them.

August 12, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A Patent Ban on Microsoft Word and a Haiku

I haven’t written about software patents in a while.  I still hate them and think they are an illogical construct.  But first, a haiku from xkcd to warm you up

August 12, 2009 · 4 min · Brad Feld