Book: Innovating Women

Suddenly, there’s a lot of constructive conversation about women in technology and entrepreneurship. I’m glad, as there is a continuous mess of sexism, misogyny, hatred, anger, specious as

October 27, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Selfies With Chris Moody to Contribute to NCWIT

Chris Moody, the former CEO of Gnip (now VP Data Strategy at Twitter) is doing a fun fundraising drive for the National Center for Women & Information Technology. For at

October 7, 2014 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Foundry Women's Exec Summit

A few weeks ago we had a summit for the women execs in our portfolio. About 40 women attended. Overall we identified about 70 women in our portfolio in leadership positions,

July 23, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Resources for Girls Learning to Code

This morning littleBits released their Space Kit. I’ve been on the board of littleBits since last year and am just in awe of what the team, led by Ayah Bdeir, is

April 24, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld

NCWIT Awards for Aspirations in Computing

Several years ago on a Saturday I found myself at Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte. I was attending the second National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT)

October 22, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Startup Phenomenon: Women – Event in Boulder – 9/3

As many of you know, mentoring women in startups and STEM careers is important to me, so I’m very pleased to be a part of the Startup Phenomenon: Women program, a one-day

August 26, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Dilbert on Cultural Fit

I’ve written before about hiring for cultural fit, and about the importance of prioritizing cultural fit over competence when hiring at startups. I started thinking about it again when I saw thi

August 9, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Simply Awesome Leadership in Computer Science Education

I woke up this morning to a post from Fred Wilson titled The Academy For Software Engineering. In it Fred announced a new initiative in New York City called The Academy For

January 13, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Three Early Lessons From My Dad

Last night I had the pleasure of talking at a dinner at Emily White’s house. Emily is on the board of the National Center of Women & Information Technology with

October 21, 2011 · 5 min · Brad Feld

NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing – Applications Are Open

Last week I was called out on a blog titled Stop Squawking; Embody The Change. In it, Nilofer Merchant (the writer) asserts that while my writing about the lack women in tech

October 15, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld