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Managing Director, Foundry Group
Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded In...
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- WordPress Bloggers Can Now Gamify Their Site
- Entrepreneurs Dislike Signaling; VCs Dislike Free Riders
- Addressing The VC Seed Investor Signaling Problem
- My Quest For The Perfect Smartphone
- TechStars New York
- Four Minutes In The Morning
- Serious Questions For Super Angels
- Have We Reached The Software Patent Tipping Point?
- What Should You Do When Your Web Service Blows Up?
- Attracting Smart People To Your Community Accelerates Entrepreneurship
- More Women In Tech Discussions
- Learning How A Bill Becomes A Law
- Desperately Seeking Amazing UX Gurus in Boulder
- Going Deeper Into The Google Apps Rabbit Hole
- Control-Self-Delete
- Do More Than Just Try It
- Gmail Made Me Go To Bed Earlier Last Night
- Entrepreneurial Density
- Your Platform Is Not In My Space
- Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service
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Posted: Thursday 9 September 2010
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Today our portfolio company BigDoor launched the first ever gamification plugin for WordPress. The plugin will allow a WordPress site owner to add leader-boards to their site as well as reward users with badges and points when they leave comments and check-in. It is a great way to incentivize repeat visits and help build a [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 8 September 2010
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I was thinking more about my post from yesterday titled Addressing The VC Seed Investor Signaling Problem. There were a bunch of good comments that caused me to realize that I wrote the post from the perspective of a VC, not an entrepreneur. As I mulled the comments over, I realized something very specific. If [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 7 September 2010
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One of the most common criticisms of VC investors making seed investments is something that has become known as "the signaling problem." The explanation of this problem is that VCs create a "negative perception" about a company if they make a seed investment but then don't follow through and make a next round investment. Another [...]
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Posted: Monday 6 September 2010
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Now that my Apple and Google experiments have been huge successes, I thought I'd try an Android phone one more time. I like my iPhone 4, but it's pretty weak with all the Google apps. Specifically, I badly want better contact integration, clean email sync, and Google voice. Plus, AT&T still blows in Boulder. Any [...]
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Posted: Thursday 2 September 2010
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TechStars is coming to New York City. The first program runs from 1/10/11 to 4/8/11. Applications are open now. The NY mentor list is stunning and includes the following: Phin Barnes (First Round Capital), Alex Blum (KickApps), Matt Blumberg (Return Path), Brad Burnham (USV), Jeff Clavier, Dennis Crowley (FourSquare), Chris Dixon (Founder Collective), Roger Ehrenberg, [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Amy and I created a tradition about a decade ago we call "four minutes in the morning." We try to - fully clothed - spend four minutes together every morning 100% focused on each other. I'm an early bird - usually getting up around 5am regardless of the time zone I'm in (except on the [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Following is a post on super angels I wrote yesterday for PEHub. In the beginning, there were angel investors. And it was good. As individual angel investors made more and more investments, they became super angels. One day a super angel woke up and thought to himself, "Gosh, I could do a lot more investments [...]
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Posted: Monday 30 August 2010
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We've shifted into a new zone in the world of software patent stupidity. A few weeks ago, Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents they got when they acquired Sun. Last week, Paul Allen sued 11 major software companies, including Google, over four patents that were granted to his now defunct Interval Research [...]
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Posted: Monday 30 August 2010
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Every major software or web company I've ever been involved in has had a catastrophic outage of some sort. I view it as a right of passage - when this happens when your company is young and no one notices, it gives you a chance to get better. But eventually you'll have one when you [...]
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Posted: Sunday 29 August 2010
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Entrepreneurial communities grow up around smart people. Whenever someone in state or local government asks me what they can do to accelerate entrepreneurship, I always tell them to put as much money and energy as they can into education. If you build a broad base of smart, inquisitive, curious people that are long term members [...]
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Posted: Sunday 29 August 2010
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The blogo-twitter-sphere erupted this weekend in response to an article in the WSJ on Friday titled Addressing The Lack Of Women Leading Tech Start-ups. I missed most of it as I was pretty heads down this weekend going through the final page proofs of the upcoming book "Do More Faster." TechCrunch / Arrington wrote a [...]
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Posted: Friday 27 August 2010
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Well, I've learned a lot about how a bill becomes a law on my journey to try to turn the Startup Visa idea into a law. And yes - it's a lot like how I learned about it on Schoolhouse Rock about 35 years ago. It's been a little less than a year since I [...]
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Posted: Thursday 26 August 2010
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There are two positions that I find difficult to fill in Boulder in the various companies we are investors in. The first is a real product manager (PM). We've got a bunch of great ones in Boulder, but there appears to be 100% employment for them and I don't poach from myself as that seems [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 25 August 2010
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Today I concluded that my Gmail experiment is working nicely. In addition, we figured out (thanks to Dave Michaels) how to wire up feld.com to Google Apps without breaking all the other feld.com users that are being served of an Exchange server. So, breaking rule #1 of all migrations, Ross and I flipped the switch [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 25 August 2010
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Sometimes Colbert is priceless. Well - most of the time. This one had Amy and I laughing hard today. Enjoy your five minute break from monitoring your social media and email to see if something important is going on. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word - Control-Self-Delete www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 24 August 2010
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I'm banging away on a bunch of new things these days. I've happily switched to a Mac, am halfway through my week of Gmail, and am contemplating what new thing to try next week. I've always been a tech junky and love to play with new stuff. I'm quick to set up an account on [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 24 August 2010
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My week-long experiment with Gmail continues with my first big bump happening last night at around 9pm. After sending a lot of emails (apparently 500) I received an error message "You have reached a limit for sending mail". I tried again. This perplexed me. So I clicked on the link. I read through it and [...]
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Posted: Monday 23 August 2010
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Last week I co-hosted a lunch for Jared Polis with Kyle Lefkoff at Boulder Ventures which Jud Valeski covered nicely in his post titled Luncheon with Jared Polis. Jared was one of the first people I met when I moved to Boulder (thanks to an introduction from my long time friend Dave Jilk) and we've [...]
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Posted: Sunday 22 August 2010
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In 2009, the word that finally got on my nerves was "space", as in "our product is in the X space" or "the space we are going after is X." It seems like the word "space" managed to find its way into every paragraph. The annoying word of 2010 appears to be "platform", as in [...]
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Posted: Saturday 21 August 2010
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Last week SimpleGeo and their partner Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. It's absolutely beautiful and a stunning example of what you can do with the SimpleGeo API. They've released the Polymaps source code on GitHub so any developer can quickly see how the API is used, play [...]
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