Book: Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

I read Emily Chang’s book Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley the day it came out. Yes – I stayed up until after midnight (way past my bedtime) reading

March 16, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

AMA for the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator

“Technologies that have revolutionized so many sectors of the economy have the potential to transform the way we do conservation. We’re at the front end of a new ‘nature-tech’ revolution

March 14, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

ICO Advertising On Google

Google just banned ICO and cryptocurrency-related advertising. For the official policy, see Financial Services: New restricted financial products policy (June 2018). Oh – and happy Pi Day. And M

March 14, 2018 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Glowforge is Shipping #whatmadethis

Regardless of those childhood aspirations of Batcaves and Tony Stark’s high tech compounds, not every VC has an office (or a company portfolio) full of lasers. But I’m one of

March 13, 2018 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Our Sexual Harassment Policy

Last summer, when we made a statement about Our Zero Tolerance Policy On Sexual Harassment, a number of people asked us to publicly release our formal policy. We wanted to

March 12, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

International Women’s Day #StartWithEight #MovingForward

Today is International Women’s Day (“IWD”) which dates back to 1909, although the UN did not start celebrating IWD annually until March 8, 1975. With the current global movement for

March 8, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

VC Offsites – Our Approach

I regularly get asked by other VCs about how we do our offsites. When we started Foundry Group in 2006, we had a very deliberate quarterly process in an effort to

March 7, 2018 · 7 min · Brad Feld

Hyperbolic Headlines About Silicon Valley

The hyperbolic headlines are once again accompanying the articles about Silicon Valley. A Sunday NY Times article titled Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley kicks off what I expect is

March 6, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Hotshot Advice on Raising Venture Capital

Raising money is hard. Entrepreneurs need to understand what’s involved – from what to consider when picking the right venture partner and how to think about the economic and control

March 5, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Roger Bannister's Sub-Four-Minute Mile

If you are a runner, then I expect Sir Roger Bannister is one of your heroic figures (as he is one of mine.) He died today at 88. Enjoy his

March 4, 2018 · 1 min · Brad Feld