Advice For Working With Mentors

I had a great week last week.  Most of the companies I’m an investor in are doing well and are having strong Q2s.  A few, like Zynga, are absolutely killing

June 20, 2009 · 4 min · Brad Feld

TechStars Episode 3: A Community Party

Episode 3 of The Founders: TechStars Boulder is up on the web.  This week’s episode includes special guest Dave Morin from Facebook.

June 16, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Email – The Original Social Graph

I’ve been an Internet email user since early 1984 when I got my first Project Athena account as an undergraduate at MIT.  Notwithstanding all the “email is dead” messages over

June 16, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Magic of Data Visualization

I love data.  And I adore playing with it graphically, as I learn a lot from graphing longitudinal data about things I’m involved in.  However, I find that almost all

June 14, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

I’ve Run Out of Namespace in My Brain

I’ve never been great with remembering names the first time I meet someone.  I’ve tried all the usual tricks and haven’t found one that works.  For me, it’s a matter

June 12, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Work-Life Balance Interview

On Wednesday I did my final One-on-One with Phil Weiser on the topic of Work-Life Balance. Rocky Radar did a great job of summarizing it in the post Feld on

June 12, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The TechStars Story Unfolding Each Week

Last year we got connected to some guys from Hollywood who talked to us (I can’t decide if we pitched them or they pitched us) on doing a “TechStars Reality

June 10, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

This Stuff Should Just Work

I have a new Windows 7 computer at my loft in Boulder that I’ve been working on for the past 24 hours.  It’s the same exact configuration as my desktop

June 10, 2009 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Colorado Company Index

My friends at Rocky Radar have launched a Colorado Company Index.  It’s a free resource designed to catalog the technology companies working within the state, from IT to Life Science

June 9, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Pogoplug Getting Props from My Favorite Gadget Nerds

We are super psyched about our investment in Pogoplug.  Generally, I hate self-referential tech analogies as a way of describing a product, but in Pogoplug’s case it’s easy: “Pogoplug is

June 9, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld