Women Who Venture

I recently met Renata George through a referral from Katie Rae (MIT Engine CEO, previously Techstars Boston MD). Renata told me about a book she was working on called Women

June 14, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Every Lie We Tell Incurs a Debt to the Truth

I watched HBO’s Chernobyl the past few nights. I finished it last night, took a deep breath, and said out loud to myself, “that was spectacular.” One of the final

June 13, 2019 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Deeply Vulnerable Writing on Startup Failure

Jasper Nathaniel recently wrote a long, detailed post titled When Your Startup Fails. It may be the most vulnerable and honest post I’ve read on failure, certainly in a while.

June 7, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Mary Grove on the Give First Podcast

David Cohen and I just released Episode 4 of our Give First podcast. We interviewed Mary Grove on the origins of Google for Startups & Startup Weekend among other things.

June 5, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book: King of Capital

One of my guilty pleasures is reading biographies about financiers and their companies. On Saturday, I gobbled down King of Capital, which is the story of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone

June 4, 2019 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Future Is Not What We Anticipate

My dad had his 60-year reunion at Columbia this weekend. He looks great. This morning, I did a talk with Om Malik at the Startup Iceland 2019 conference. Om was

June 3, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Board Meeting Slide: What Are We Trying To Get Out of This Section

I was at a board meeting last week that introduced something new into the mix that I thought was brilliant. At the beginning of each section of the board meeting,

May 31, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Wartime CEO

I read Ben Horowitz’s The Hard Thing About Hard Things last weekend. This is the third time I’ve read it. It gets better each time. If you are a CEO

May 30, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Holograms Are Open For Business

In February 2017 I met Shawn Frayne, one of the founders of Looking Glass Factory, a Brooklyn-based company with ambitions to make holographic interfaces a reality. Their team was scrappy

May 28, 2019 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Dream Tank Summer Programs For Kids in Boulder

Imagine that when you were a kid, someone told you that your dreams are important for the world and that what you do matters right now. Now, match that with

May 28, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld