You Can't Motivate People

I’m sitting on my balcony on the ninth floor of a hotel overlooking Miami Beach thinking about motivation. Specifically, mine. I’m deep into writing the first draft of Startup Communities

February 16, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Start-Up of You Debuts At #1

My close friend Ben Casnocha and Reid Hoffman’s new book The Start-Up of You is officially out. And – it’s #1 on Amazon. Not just in some obscure category like

February 14, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Three Magic Numbers

Every company I’m involved in keeps track of numbers. Daily numbers, weekly numbers, monthly numbers. Ultimately, all the numbers translate into three financial statements – the P&L, B

February 7, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Focus on Outcomes, Not Organization

I had a great breakfast meeting at the Cambridge Marriott with Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT yesterday morning. We had never met before and I loved the conversation –

January 14, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Calling All Entrepreneurs – Sign Up For Startup America And Help Us Win

I’ve been a big supporter of the Startup America Partnership since its inception at the beginning of last year. The organization is now a year old and is starting to

January 6, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

New Course: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy

For a number of years, my partner Jason Mendelson has been teaching an extremely popular course at CU Boulder Law School with Brad Bernthal titled Venture Capital – A 360

January 6, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

StartUp: Learning Entrepreneurism – New Course at CU Boulder Digital Works

As entrepreneurship in Boulder continues to grow, Boulder Digital Works is offering a new course with Robert Reich (co-founder of OpenSpace, OneRiot, and the Boulder New Tech Meetup) called  StartUp:

December 27, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Code Red

Many of the companies that we invest in are the leaders in their respective markets. Often they create the market. Sometimes they appear out of no where and dominate. And

December 14, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Silent Killers

On my run yesterday in Central Park, I was thinking about the characteristics of some of my favorite companies. Suddenly a phrase popped into my head about what ties all

December 13, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull for the first time in 1975 when I was about 10 years old. I’ve read it several times over the last 35 years, but probably

December 7, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld