Don't Get Sick Of Telling Your Story

The Boulder TechStars program is in week three and the intensity level is high. The TechStars office is across the hall from ours at Foundry Group and it’s wild to

June 6, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Sometimes Failure Is Your Best Option

This post originally appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal as part of their Accelerators Program in answer to the question “When and how should you wind down a

May 20, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

My Day1 Talk For Endeavor

When I was in Rio a few months ago for the Global Entrepreneurial Congress, I did a talk called “Day1” that Endeavor puts on. It’s a 20 minute presentation about

May 14, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

CU Deming Center of Entrepreneurship Is Hiring A New Director

The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at CU is looking to hire a new Director. As part of the Leeds School of Business, the Deming Center prepares students across CU’s campus

May 13, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Power of Peer Groups

For the past two days I’ve been at an even called SERGE (Seasoned Entrepreneurs Gathering Exchange). I co-founded it with two long time friends, Martin Babinec (founder of Trinet) and

May 1, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Dying Much Too Early

I woke up to an email today from Aaron Schwartz, founder of Modify. I don’t know Aaron other than our email exchanges but he thanked me for Venture Deals which he said

March 21, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Shifting My Focus To Scaling Up

I’ve spent the past two days at the Global Entrepreneurs Congress in Rio. It’s been really powerful for me as it’s shown how broadly the message of Startup Communities has taken

March 20, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Startup Visa Act 2013 Introduced By Udall (D-Colo) and Flake (R-Ariz)

Today appears to be government day on Feld Thoughts. This morning I wrote about the Colorado PUC trying to shut down Uber in Colorado (bad). Now I get to write

January 30, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Concentrate Mostly On One Company

This first appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Accelerator series. A few our entrepreneurial heroes work on more that one company at a time. Steve Jobs (Pixar, Apple), Elon Musk (Tesla,

January 13, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Small Experiments, Often

This post first appeared in the WSJ Accelerators series titled The $100,000 Experiment in response to the question “When should you make a substantive change to one or more parts of

January 3, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld