Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Shaped the Internet Age and Dot-Com Boom

Dan Caruso’s new book Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Shaped the Internet Age and Dot-Com Boom is available for pre-order, to be released on February 4, 2025. Order your copy today on Amazon or Barnes & Noble . You can also subscribe to Dan’s Bandwidth newsletter to receive updates on the book release and launch events. Dan asked me to write the foreword, which I happily did. See an excerpt explaining why I loved reading this book. ...

January 10, 2025 · 3 min · Brad Feld

A Conversation With Dan Caruso About Gender Equity at the Boulder Country Club

Update: on 11/1, I wrote an update post titled Progress on the Discussion Around Gender Equity at the Boulder Country Club . It gives more context on the progress in the past week around this discussion along with some additional context on the motivation for this post. *Initially, I took this post down, which I rarely do. I then got negative feedback about taking the post down. Since I rarely take posts down, I decided to put it back up with this introduction. If you are seeing this post now, please also read *Progress on the Discussion Around Gender Equity at the Boulder Country Club **. ...

October 26, 2020 · 7 min · Brad Feld

A Short Recent History of the Colorado Startup Community

Colorado Public Television takes an in-depth look at Colorado’s thriving startup scene in its new 5-part season called Street Level Startups . The first episode, which is above, includes me and Jared Polis reflecting on some fun Techstars founding history, Dan Caruso talking about Zayo and the bridge between Boulder / Denver, and a great segment at the end with Brad Bernthal talking about fundraising and #GiveFirst. And, plenty of other stuff. ...

June 26, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Zayo Group – One of Boulder's Amazing Startup Stories

I’m intensely proud of both the amazing startup community in Boulder as well as the many significant companies that have been – and are being – created in the little town of 100,000 people I call home. I regularly talk about the ones we’ve invested in through Foundry Group, but this only covers a part of the awesomeness that is going on here as Foundry Group has a very tight thematic focus . ...

July 31, 2013 · 6 min · Brad Feld