Books I Read On My Q114 Vacation

I’m going to start doing something new on my posts. Rather than having separate posts promoting stuff I’m up to, I’m going to begin including a short header in each

March 31, 2014 · 5 min · Brad Feld

The Heart of the Start

It’s been a blast to get to know and work with Eliot Peper. His book, Uncommon Stock, is the first one that we published at FG Press. If you want

March 12, 2014 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things

If you haven’t yet bought Ben Horowitz’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, go get it right now. It’s one of

March 10, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Uncommon Stock – The First Book From FG Press

Uncommon Stock: Version 1.0 is officially available today and can be bought online at Amazon and pretty much everywhere else. It’s the first title from FG Press and is in a category we

March 5, 2014 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book: Get Some Headspace

My exploration into meditation continues. I started on February 5th when I wrote the post Learning To Meditate. Since then, I’ve been practicing every day, read a few books on meditation,

March 2, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book Cover Blurbs Should Die

As we gear up to release Uncommon Stock, our first FG Press book, we just had an internal discussion about book blurbs. The concept of a blurb was apparently invented

February 28, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Introducing FG Press

Every year or so my partners and I at Foundry Group create a new company, or start a new project, that we believe had the potential to change the way

February 26, 2014 · 6 min · Brad Feld

My Ideal Board Meeting

In my new book, Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors, in addition to decomposing and explaining a lot about the functioning of board meetings, I

February 7, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Book: On Writing

As Amy watched the Seahawks decimate the Broncos, I read Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. The result – Amy was sad while I was delighted. King’s

February 2, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Stopping Writing For Other Web Sites

One of my goals, and a tactic for being happier, this year is Doing More By Doing Less More Deeply. To that end, I’ve decided to stop writing for other

January 26, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld