Does Every Senior Leader On Your Team Have A Backup?

I said some version of the following statement several times in the past few weeks. Assume aliens came down and one of your senior leaders was taken away to their

April 20, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Hanging Out In Pioneer Square

I’m in Seattle for the next few days. I’ve built this trip around Techstars Seattle Demo, a bunch of time at PSL, and a Moz board meeting. Oh – and

April 17, 2018 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Evolving My Writing

While I’ve been writing my entire adult life, I started writing consistently on May 4, 2004, when I began this blog with my first post To Blog or Not to Blog.

April 16, 2018 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Price of Free is Actually Too High

I loved this quote by Tristan Harris in the New York Magazine article The Internet Apologizes … “We cannot afford the advertising business model. The price of free is actually too

April 15, 2018 · 4 min · Brad Feld

My Search for a Thinking Machines CM-1 or CM-2

I have a Cray-2 showing up at our Carriage House in the next few weeks. It’ll be a permanent fixture there and, while it’s not functional, it’ll be fun to

April 5, 2018 · 1 min · Brad Feld

CU Boulder's New Venture Challenge 10th Anniversary

Tonight, the New Venture Challenge at CU Boulder is having its 10th anniversary. It’s happening at the Boulder Theater from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm and is open to the

April 4, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book: Waking Up White

My dad, brother, and I are now doing a monthly book club together. One of us chooses a book, we all read it, and then we do an hour-long video

March 30, 2018 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Spring Break Should Be A National Holiday In The US

I’m a fan of spring break. I’m a believer in regular vacations. I love it when people I work with get away and disconnect. And, I do it at

March 28, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Academic Research on Accelerators

The first accelerator, YC, was founded in 2005. The second, Techstars, was founded in 2006. Wikipedia has a good summary of the history of accelerators. Now that we are 13

March 27, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Facebook As The Ultimate Surveillance Machine

Whenever someone tells me about the progress humans have made, I remind them that since the beginning of humans, man has been trying to kill his neighbor to take over

March 26, 2018 · 5 min · Brad Feld