Book: Do Better Work

Last week I met Max Yoder, the CEO of Lessonly, at the annual High Alpha CEO summit. He was the last speaker in the afternoon and ended a great day

March 12, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Venture Deals Online Course – Spring 2019 Registration Is Open

We are running the Venture Deals Online Course again. Registration is now open and it runs from April 7, 2019 – May 31, 2019. It’s produced by Kauffman Fellows Academy

March 10, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Anti-VR

A central theme of science fiction over the past 20 years has been the dystopian future of humans, laying on couches, connected to machines that feed them and process their

March 8, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

I read Roger McNamee’s book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe the day it came out. While likely uncomfortable for a lot of people, it was excellent, provocative, and

March 6, 2019 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Give A Teacher Of Your Choice A Sphero RVR

As part of the Sphero RVR Kickstarter campaign, Amy and I have decided to give away up to 200 RVRs as part of a new tier called the 2 RVRs

March 5, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

littleBits Is Helping To Close The Gender Gap in Technology

We’ve been investors in littleBits since 2013. Last night, littleBits was featured as an example in the 60 Minutes segment on Closing the Gender Gap in the Tech Industry. Among other

March 4, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book: Digital Minimalism

Several friends have mentioned that I’d love Cal Newport’s writing. I finally got around to reading his most recent book, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

March 3, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

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