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

Improving My Handwriting

I have awful handwriting. I used to not care, but at age 53, I find myself writing on paper more than I have the past 30 years. I’ve decided that

May 24, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Bad Entrepreneurial Cliches: Strong Opinions Loosely Held

Michael Natkin at Glowforge recently wrote a great post titled Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech. I have never liked this entrepreneurial cliche. While I

May 23, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Tariffs and Hardware Startups

If the majority of your understanding of how tariffs work is from Twitter, CNN, or Fox News, I encourage you to go read Trump’s China Tariffs Hit America’s Poor and

May 22, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

CSbyAll: An Interactive, Crowdsourced Timeline of the CS Education and Diversity in Tech Movement

The modern computer science education movement, commonly referred to as Computer Science for All or #CSforALL, has been gaining momentum nationwide since 2004 and is poised to be the most

May 21, 2019 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Book: The Moment of Lift

I had surgery recently and a few friends, including Chris Moody and Sarah Ahn, gave me some books as gifts. They knew I’d be spending a lot of time on

May 20, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld