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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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- Grinfucking
- What Makes An Awesome Board Member?
- Starwood and AT&T #FAIL And Bless Me With $180.76 Of Phone Charges
- Reflections On CES From A Perfective Of The Future
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- A Flying Fuck
- Connect to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and G+
- Creative Construction
- A Few Last Thoughts On SOPA/PIPA From Last Week
- My World Is A Network
- The Day The LOLcats Died
- IAP at MIT
- Colorado Senator Mark Udall Opposes PIPA
- Focus on Outcomes, Not Organization
- Simply Awesome Leadership in Computer Science Education
- Why I Go To CES
- Some Days I Just Have To Hide In My Room
- Survey For Book on Startup Boards
- #BEONFIRE Chat Tonight
- The Beautiful Bronx
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Posted: Saturday 4 February 2012
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I first heard the word "grinfucker" a decade or so ago from a close friend who was a former investment banker. He said, in response to a meeting we were in with a person who was very polite and charming "he's such a grinfucker." I loved the word and, as I found out later, it [...]
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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Over the past two years I've been struggling mightily with the dynamics of "classical VC funded board of directors" and how these boards work. When I hear a VC say "I'm an active board member" it gives me the same nauseous feeling I get when someone says "I'm a value added investor." I've been on some awesome [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 1 February 2012
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Put this in the "every business traveller thinks this on a regular basis" rant category. Sure - I'm whining, but I imagine I'll feel better after I get done. I doubt it has any impact on the universe, but hopefully it'll be a story that rings true to some of you out there who travel [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 31 January 2012
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I believe that science fiction is reality catching up to the future. Others say that science fact is the science fiction of the past. Regardless, the gap between science fact and science fiction is fascinating to me, especially as it applies to computers. My partners and I spend time at CES each year along with [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 31 January 2012
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I believe that science fiction is reality catching up to the future. Others say that science fact is the science fiction of the past. Regardless, the gap between science fact and science fiction is fascinating to me, especially as it applies to computers. My partners and I spend time at CES each year along with [...]
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Posted: Monday 30 January 2012
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It's Monday and I'm back in Boulder after being on the east coast for three weeks. My partner Jason Mendelson got me possibly the best remote control toy ever. Even though I'd love to stick around Boulder all week, I'm heading to DC tomorrow and then NY for a day. Oh well.
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Posted: Monday 30 January 2012
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I noticed something when I tried out two apps (Mingly and Cobook) this morning - they each immediately asked to connect me to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter during their onboarding process. And, by using my Gmail as the starting point / authentication, they connected me to G+. Microsoft is conspicuously absent from this. I've noticed [...]
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Posted: Thursday 26 January 2012
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After a long really fun day yesterday at TechStars and StartLabs I wandered over to 34-101 to be on a panel for Joost Bonsen and Joe Hadzima‘s IAP class 15.S21: The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans. It's not really a class about business plans rather a class about starting a business and has been regularly modernized by Joost and [...]
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Posted: Sunday 22 January 2012
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After sleeping 13 hours on Friday night and then 14 hours last night it's pretty clear that a week like last week isn't sustainable for me. At brunch today, Amy guessed that I worked 80 hours between Monday and Friday, ran three days (after coming off a double long weekend where I did two 10 [...]
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Posted: Friday 20 January 2012
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This post should be sung to the tune of The World Is A Vampire by the Smashing Pumpkins "the world is a vampire, sent to drain secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames and what do i get, for my pain betrayed desires, and a piece of the game even though i know-i suppose i'll [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 17 January 2012
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Posted: Tuesday 17 January 2012
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One of the magic special things I remember about MIT is what happens during January. It's called IAP - Independent Activities Period. Rather than classes, students can do whatever they want, including go home and sleep for the month (which I did a few times). There are lots of events, seminars, and short courses (day, [...]
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Posted: Monday 16 January 2012
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On Saturday, Colorado Senator Mark Udall publicly opposed PIPA. I've been talking to Mark and his team for about a month about this and I'm incredibly proud of him for taking a stand on this issue. I've been a supporter of Mark's for many years and his willingness to listen to his constituents, think about [...]
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Posted: Saturday 14 January 2012
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I had a great breakfast meeting at the Cambridge Marriott with Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT yesterday morning. We had never met before and I loved the conversation - his brain was bubbling with ideas that are relevant to many of the things I'm interested in, he challenged some of my thinking, and we [...]
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Posted: Friday 13 January 2012
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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 Software Engineering. Fred, and his friend Mike Zamansky (a teacher at Stuyvesant High School) helped create this with the support of Mayor Bloomberg's office and Fred and his [...]
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Posted: Thursday 12 January 2012
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Every year my partners at Foundry Group and I go to CES. We aren't boondoggle guys - our expeditions together are limited to a quarterly offsite, often at Jason's house (10 minutes from our office), and one trip a year with spouses and significant others somewhere. So CES has been a nice tradition for us [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 11 January 2012
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I'm in Las Vegas at CES. I walked the floor yesterday, had a bunch of meetings in the afternoon, and then went out to dinner at Nobu with my partners and a bunch of the founders of companies we are investors in. It was a great day but at the end of it I was [...]
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Posted: Monday 9 January 2012
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I'm working on a book with Mahendra Ramsinghani called "Startup Boards" where we are trying to provide clear best practices for how the boards of startup companies should work. You may recognize Mahendra's name - he wrote The Business of Venture Capital which I reviewed recently. This book is part of my continuous effort to dramatically improve [...]
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Posted: Monday 9 January 2012
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I'm going to participate in a Twitter chat tonight (#BEONFIRE). It's a new initiative by @pistachio and @redheadwriting. Their first guest last week was @FAKEGRIMLOCK who, as usual, was ON FIRE. It's happening from 8pm - 9pm Mountain (10pm - 11pm Eastern). There's a real time Twitter chat up or you can just follow me [...]
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Posted: Sunday 8 January 2012
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My mom and dad have a wonderful gift coming to them this week. Yesterday evening I read The Beautiful Bronx 1920-1950 and The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday, 1935-1965. Well - I mostly looked at the pictures and read the descriptions of the pictures, as that was the meat of each book, but the intro sections were also [...]
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