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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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Posted: Friday 30 April 2010
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In March, I went to DC with Dave McClure, Eric Ries, Shervin Pishevar, and a bunch of Geeks on a Plane to discuss, advocate, and support the Startup Visa initiative. As part of the effort, we did two videos about the trip - one staring me and one staring Shervin. Ben Henretig of Micro-Documentaries produced them [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 28 April 2010
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As Fred Wilson likes to say, often the best content for blogs is in the comments. In this case, it was in an email I got from Boaz Fletcher in response to my post Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers. Boaz made a very interesting observation:"As for learning how to code, I think good [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 27 April 2010
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Thanks for all the feedback and comments on the Learning to Program series with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola from Everlater. In the last post, titled Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers, I foreshadowed some of the tools that Nate and Natty chose to build Everlater. Now that you know how they got started, [...]
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Posted: Sunday 25 April 2010
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In the continuation of the Learning to Program series with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola from Everlater, I asked them a few questions about which web sites, books, and blogs they consumed at the beginning of their journey when they knew nothing about programming. It turns out that Nate and Natty spent most of their [...]
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Posted: Thursday 22 April 2010
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In 2005, I wrote a post titled ADPrentice that talked about a weekend event I did with a number of the undergraduates in my MIT fraternity (ADP). In the post I described the entrepreneurship education event I helped put on with Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners - then at Sequoia Capital) and Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures). It [...]
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Posted: Thursday 22 April 2010
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Steve Bell of StartupTrek once again does a nice job of capturing my thoughts in under 7 minutes - this time on TechStars and some advice for young entrepreneurs.
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Posted: Wednesday 21 April 2010
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At Foundry Group, we often talk about our thematic approach to investing. Steve Bell from StartupTrek did a nice job of capturing my perspective in under eight minutes.
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Posted: Monday 19 April 2010
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Props go to The Form Group. Deeply brilliant.
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Posted: Friday 16 April 2010
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When I saw this a few minutes ago as I trolled through my daily folder, I thought of an email I got yesterday titled "turtles all the way down" that referred to an article yesterday on TechDirt titled What If The Very Theory That Underlies Why We Need Patents Is Wrong? The article discusses a [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 14 April 2010
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To start off the Learning to Program series with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola from Everlater, I asked them the simple question "What Was Day 1 Like?" Nate responded first:Day one was totally overwhelming. Overwhelming because we didn't know what we didn't know. It's one thing when you don't know how to do something (e.g., [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 13 April 2010
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I love my morning reading routine. Most mornings during the week - between 5am and 6:30am - I sit at my computer, catch up on email, read the stuff in my daily folder, go through my RSS feeds, and generally explore whatever I can on the web. Some is systematic (my daily folder, my RSS [...]
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Posted: Monday 12 April 2010
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In the last few days there have been a large number of posts about two platform companies - Apple and Twitter. These posts covered a wide range of perspectives (a few of the better ones are linked to below) but fundamentally came down to the tension between a platform (e.g. the iPhone OS or Twitter) [...]
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Posted: Sunday 11 April 2010
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Sometimes I feel like a conference promoter. It’s worth noting that while I put plenty of events up on this blog, I only post the ones that I’d consider going to. Specifically, I probably get 10 requests to post something for everyone one I do.Over the past year, I’ve gotten to know Eric Ries through [...]
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Posted: Sunday 11 April 2010
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Amy and I love sushi. While my sushi dining experiences have been limited to the US and Europe, I’ve had a number of amazing sushi dinners, including Masa in New York. Boulder has a bizarrely large number of sushi restaurants and over the years we’ve frequented them all numerous times.A year or so ago a [...]
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Posted: Friday 9 April 2010
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I had lunch today with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola, the co-founders of Everlater, a TechStars 2009 company. Nate and Natty are two of my favorites - not only because they regularly kick my partner Seth Levine’s ass on bike rides but also because they starred in last year’s TechStars The Founders video series.Today, while [...]
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Posted: Friday 9 April 2010
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I hate spam. Over the years I’ve been an investor in a number of companies that address the spam problem, including Postini and Return Path. I’ve also been involved in lots of other companies in the email ecosystem and spam has always been something I’ve paid close attention to.I’ve thought hard about Blam (Blog Spam), [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 7 April 2010
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We’ve been having a running joke within Foundry Group for several years about "stealth mode." My partner Seth alludes to it in his blog post a few years back titled To stealth or not to stealth. I’ve always been on the side of "not to stealth" but after watching the remarkable stealth experience of Trada, [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 6 April 2010
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I’ve enjoyed my interviews on Vator.tv in the past and think Bambi Francisco and crew do a great job of highlighting up and coming entrepreneurs, companies, and their investors.Vator is holding a Splash event on May 13, at the Cafe du Nord in San Francisco. Like its last event, about 400 attendees are expected. Zappos [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 6 April 2010
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While some people hate the phrase "failing fast", I find it instructive when it’s used to signify that one isn’t going to pursue a particular path in the context of a larger set of activities. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about The Proliferation of Standardized Seed Financing Documents. It generated several hundred [...]
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Posted: Thursday 1 April 2010
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Over the past year the amount of emails I receive on a daily basis from entrepreneurs has reached a point where I can’t deal with it any more. My partners at Foundry Group feel the same and as a result we’ve moved to twitter to deal evaluation. If you are interested in talking to me [...]
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