How to Build a Successful Startup Ecosystem in your City

I participated in a one hour Crowdcast yesterday with Techstars and 43 North about How to Build a Successful Startup Ecosystem in your City. Some of the thoughts from my

March 1, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Three Year Future Org Chart Exercise

I’ve been doing a three-year future org chart exercise with the CEOs of a number of the companies I’m involved in between $25m and $250m in revenue. This can be

February 28, 2019 · 5 min · Brad Feld

The American Tailwind 

Every year, one of my favorite things to read is the Berkshire Hathaway annual letter. The 2018 version is out and, as always, is a beautiful thing to read if

February 23, 2019 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Robin Hauser's Film Bias at the Boulder International Film Festival 2019

Amy and I are long-time supporters of the Boulder International Film Festival. The 2019 festival starts soon and runs from February 28 to March 3rd. Bias, one of the documentaries

February 22, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

How To Get A Job In Venture Capital

My partner Seth Levine has written several posts over the years on the topic of how to get a job in venture capital. His 2019 post, titled creatively How To&nbs

February 21, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Happy Robot Valentines Day

Day 1 of Sphero’s RVR pre-order campaign is off to a great start (> 1000 backers, > $250,000 in the first 24 hours.) It’s Day 2, but for some people

February 20, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Meet RVR from Sphero

Sphero has announced RVR, a go anywhere, do anything programmable robot. It launched on Kickstarter today and is available, along with a bunch of other fun pre-order options. Over the

February 19, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Mentors 18/18: Have Empathy. Remember That Startups Are Hard

This is the final post (18) of the Techstars Mentor Manifesto. As with item 17, Jay Batson, a long-time Techstars Boston mentor, nudged me several times to finish this up and

February 7, 2019 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Mentors 17/18: Be Challenging/Robust, but Never Destructive

I wrote 16 posts detailing each item of the Techstars Mentor Manifesto. However, there were 18 items and, for some reason, I never got around to writing the final two.

February 6, 2019 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Techstars Sustainability Accelerator AMA

On 2/12/19, Brian McPeek (President, The Nature Conservancy) and I are doing an AMA about the Techstars Sustainability accelerator. It’ll be at 1 pm MT and last for an hour.

January 23, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld