The Power of a Deadline

If you’ve ever shipped anything, you understand the power of a deadline. It’s incredibly helpful to me as an investor to also be a maker, as I get to experience

October 12, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Founders: The Problem, The Solution, and Why We Give A Shit

Are you watching The Founders Season 3 on TechStars.TV? If not, why not? Episode 2 (and Go!) is below – it echoes the points made yesterday in my post If You

October 7, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

If You Can't Explain What You Do In A Paragraph, You've Got A Problem

Here’s an email exchange that I had in the past 24 hours with an entrepreneur. Remember, I try to answer all of my emails and be responsive to any inquiry

October 6, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Companies in the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure Program

I’ve written before about the Kinect Accelerator and Microsoft Accelerator. On Monday, the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure companies were announced. The program begins this week and ends

October 4, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Founders – Season Three

One of my favorite web tv shows – The Founders – is back. Episode 1 of Season 3 – Cave Explorer – is up. We’ll follow three of the TechStars

October 1, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

My Awesome Experience With Retrofit

When I started Retrofit last fall, I weighed 216. I’ve struggled for a decade to get below 210 – it would happen sometimes but I’d quickly end back up in

September 24, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Apply Today For TechStars Cloud 2013

This is the second year that TechStars is running a thematic accelerator in Texas focused just on cloud computing. At Foundry Group, we believe in thematic investing both as a

September 20, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A Class Of Entrepreneurs That We Need

A few months ago TechStars ran a program for military veterans called TechStars Patriot Boot Camp. It was powerful and well received. Since then I’ve had a few emails exchanges about

August 29, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Founder Market Fit

We constantly hear about “product market fit.” But my post yesterday about The Power of Passion When Starting Your Company was about “founder market fit.” And I’ve come t

August 22, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Power of Passion When Starting Your Company

It was the second week of TechStars and I was doing office hours with each of the 11 teams going through the Boulder 2010 program. I was sitting across the

August 21, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld