EPOCH: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga

Are you interested in AI? Do you enjoy science fiction? Do you have an opinion about how AI will impact the human species? Are you enthusiastic about it or worried

September 2, 2024 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book: Unshackled: A Practical Guide For Highly-Skilled Immigrants To Thrive In The United States

I recently wrote the Foreword for Unshackled, a new book co-authored by Soundarya Basubramani, a writer from India, and Sameer Khedekar, a veteran immigration lawyer. Unshackled breaks down how legal

July 17, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book: Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

John McPhee’s Levels of the Game was published when I was three. I’ve read many books about tennis, but it’s still my favorite, with String Theory: David Foster Wallace on

May 21, 2023 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Book: Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide

Chris Heivly released Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide. I encourage you to get Chris’s book if you are a startup community builder or are interested in

April 26, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book: Startup Boards, 2nd Edition Is Available

The 2nd Edition of my book Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors launched today. My co-authors, Matt Blumberg, the CEO of Bolster,

June 15, 2022 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Summer Is Here

About a year ago, I decided to take a summer vacation from blogging. I didn’t feel like blogging when summer ended, so I extended my blogging vacation indefinitely. I figured

June 8, 2022 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company's Critical Functions and Teams

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup

June 9, 2021 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Investment vs. Speculation

I reread Enough.: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by John C. Bogle over the weekend. I’d read it in 2012 and it had a huge impact on me.

June 8, 2021 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Book: LEVERS – The Framework For Building Repeatability into Your Business

The best businesses are data-driven and metrics-driven. Instead of simply tracking top-line metrics, every person in the organization understands their role, how they impact the business metrics, and

April 20, 2021 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Partial Q1 Vacation – Books and Running

I sort of took a Q1 Vacation last week. 2021 didn’t really feel like it started for me until January 21st. Yeah, I took a company public on January 4th,

April 6, 2021 · 6 min · Brad Feld