Registration for the Spring 2026 Venture Deals course is open. The course kicks off on March 2nd and, as always, is free. Since we revamped the course in 2022, over 32,000 people have enrolled. This version includes entirely new video content and two sections we added that I think are important — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Venture Capital, and Mental Wellness in Entrepreneurship. ...
Back when the pandemic hit, Chris Heivly spearheaded a podcast with Ian Hathaway and me in support of our upcoming two books, The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Build The Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide . We did eight episodes of a solid but complicated-to-produce series. Chris is now spearheading a Season 2 podcast series with Techstars, mirroring a format pioneered by Seth Godin, who was a recent guest on our GiveFirst podcast. ...
Foundercon is heading back to where it all began: Boulder, Colorado. I’ll be there the whole time, along with over 1,000 of my Techstars friends. The Techstars team is working hard to make this Foundercon extremely valuable to everyone who attends, regardless of whether you are a founder, mentor, partner, or community leader. ...
Registration for the Venture Deals Summer 2025 online, self-guided, free course by Techstars and Kauffman Fellows starts today. It’s based on the book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist . When Jason Mendelson and I wrote the first edition, one of our goals was to eliminate the massive information asymmetry between entrepreneurs and investors. Venture Deals is now in its 4th edition and has continued to be a popular and helpful book. ...
The Venture Deals course is free and starts on June 20, 2023 . This is the fourth time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows . If interested, sign up now . I hope to see you in one of the AMAs we will host for anyone who takes the course.
On Tuesday, David Cohen (Techstars co-founder/chair) and I did an AMA for Techstars founders about the SVB crisis. The team at Techstars turned it into a podcast for our Give First series . The teaser from the podcast follows: The fall of SVB will go down in history as one of those ‘where were you when …’ moments. For David Cohen, he was sitting at a sporting event when his phone began buzzing incessantly. For Brad Feld, he was couch shopping with his wife. ...
The course is free and starts on March 21, 2023. This is the third time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows . If interested, sign up now . I hope to see you there in one of the AMAs we will host for anyone who takes the course.
David Cohen and I have co-hosted the Give First podcast for 71 episodes. I think our host ratio is 80/20 David/Brad, and he’s covered everything in 2021 because I was burned out on all things public-facing and needed a break. He figured a good way to get me back in the mix would be to interview me about entrepreneurship and mental health, so that’s what Episode 71 is about. Listen & subscribe to the Give First podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and more .
Registration for the Venture Deals Fall 2022 course is open . The course is free and starts on September 20, 2022. This is the second time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows . If interested, sign up now . I hope to see you there in one of the AMAs we will host for anyone who takes the course.
I recently nominated James Oliver’s ParentPreneur Foundation for the new Techstars Accelerate Equity Program . Amy and I provided the lead gift of $100,000 through our Anchor Point Foundation. For a detailed look at what the ParentPreneur Foundation does, take a look at Techstars Foundation Empowers Black ParentPreneurs, So They Can Leave A Legacy For Their Children . Through Accelerate Equity, the Techstars Foundation identifies early-stage nonprofits and ideas to empower and support underestimated entrepreneurs. We then call on the Techstars network to pitch in. The Techstars Foundation will add a 5% match to the total raised at the end of the calendar quarter. ...