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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: Saturday 31 July 2010
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As I watch Amy scurry around and put the final touches on our Homer house before we leave to go home to Boulder, I thought I'd stay out of the way and write a quick final book post on The House Advantage. I read a bunch more books the past two weeks but ran out [...]
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Posted: Friday 30 July 2010
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Ah - well - another day passed and there was once again a ton of chatter around angel investing. A lot of it was prompted by AngelConf 2010 which you can watch recordings of on Justin.tv (AngelConf 2010 Part 1 and AngelConf 2010 Part 2). While there continues to be plenty of negative VC tone [...]
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Posted: Thursday 29 July 2010
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Like most of the blogosphere, I've been trying to use Flipboard since its extraordinarily well executed (or well hyped - I can't tell yet) announcement. But, like almost everyone I know, I can't get it to authenticate Twitter or Facebook. Two days ago I entered in my email address to reserve my place in line. [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 28 July 2010
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In 2008 I was invited by Pamela Samuelson, who I met through several Silicon Flatiron events, to be on an advisory board at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. I attended the one meeting that we had and a subsequent symposium and wrote about it in the post Entrepreneurial Companies and the Patent System. [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 27 July 2010
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This week's special guest are Jeff Clavier from SoftTech VC and Rob Hayes from First Round Capital. Among other things, you get to hear Jeff define the Three Asses Rule and Rob explain what happens after you finish the TechStars program. As a special bonus, there's a cute clip of me near the end watching [...]
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Posted: Monday 26 July 2010
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I got a note from Nivi, the creator of AngelList, over the weekend saying that he'd put up a special page for angel investors in Boulder. He's looking for the local Boulder angels to add their names to the list. Gang - let's get ‘em up - if you are an angel investor and based in [...]
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Posted: Monday 26 July 2010
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While I still don't have my jetpack, I do have my picturephone. I was four when the AT&T PicturePhone appeared on the scene. This dude went through a lot of iterations over the year - my favorite is in this Western Digital ad. This morning as I was drinking my coffee, waking up, and trying [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 21 July 2010
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Last week there was a kerfuffle over Standing Cloud's use of the Papyrus font for their logo. It was kind of cute and endearing and my pals at Standing Cloud reacted with appropriate contrition over offending the font police. Today I came across a brilliant McSweeney article (thanks to @daveschappell) on Comic Sans titled I'm [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 21 July 2010
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Eric Ries is this week's guest star on The Founders. Eric is an incredible speaker and is traveling the world on a mission to help people stop wasting other people's time. If you don't follow Eric's thoughts on Lean Startups on his blog Lessons Learned, you should. You get a little taste of the shift [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 20 July 2010
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Well my Mac experiment is going extremely well. I'm not sure I remember how to use a Windows PC, nor am I sure why I'd want to. I'm using a Mac that is at least a year old (2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB RAM) so I'm not even tuned to the [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 20 July 2010
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When my partners and I started Foundry Group, one of our key principles was to be "theme-based investors." At the time the phrase "theme" wasn't being used in VC-land so we got to make up what it meant, at least for us. We decided that a theme was a "broadly horizontal technology area that would [...]
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Posted: Monday 19 July 2010
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I'm extremely excited that Senator Mark Udall (D-CO), the senior senator for Colorado, has signed on as a co-sponsor of The Startup Visa Act of 2010 that was originally proposed by Senators Kerry (D-MA) and Lugar (R-IN). Senator Udall joins his Colorado colleague in the House, Jared Polis (D-CO), who has proposed Startup Visa legislation [...]
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Posted: Sunday 18 July 2010
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Emily Eveleth, a favorite artist of mine and Amy's, was profiled in the Boston Globe this weekend in an article titled It's Time To Paint The Doughnuts. My long time friend Shawn Broderick (who runs TechStars Boston) knows about our Emily doughnut obsession and pointed it out to me. Amy and I are huge collectors [...]
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Posted: Saturday 17 July 2010
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Amy and I have been up at our house in Homer, Alaska for the last two weeks. We try to spent every July up here - something we've tried to do every year for the past decade (we missed in 2007 and 2009.) I've had a lot of people say things similar to "I hope [...]
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Posted: Friday 16 July 2010
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A few weeks ago I had my weekly mentor meeting with Ian and Adam from Gearbox. We messed around with the latest version of "the ball" on an Android phone and then talked about a bunch of things that were going on. I am totally amazed at the technical progress they are making this summer [...]
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Posted: Friday 16 July 2010
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This week's episode of The Founders is all about "the team." Ryan Sarver from Twitter is the guest of honor so all my links will be twitter handles. David's mom (gingerale) makes a nice appearance (follow her and follow my dad sfeld while you are at it) along with Eric Norlin of Glue, Defrag, and now [...]
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Posted: Thursday 15 July 2010
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The meme of the lack of women in tech (or software, or entrepreneurship) appeared in several places today. Regular readers of this blog know that I've been the chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology for a number of years and deeply involved in this issue. It's very satisfying for me to [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 14 July 2010
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I love when companies I'm an investor in use acquisitions to build out their product line. In April Rally Software did one when they acquired AgileZen; yesterday they announced that Rally Software has acquired the ScrumAway iPhone app from Blue Hole Software. Rally has re-released the product (previous a $15 download) as a free product [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 14 July 2010
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The second Boulder Open Angel Forum event is happening on August 4th at 7pm. In case you aren't familiar with the Open Angel Forum, the organization is dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with access to the angel investor community based solely on merit and without any fees. The first Open Angel Forum in Boulder was dynamite. David [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 13 July 2010
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In addition to missing the sun up here in Homer today, I miss my dogs. I guess I need to get them on a Skype call later today, kind of like what Todd Vernon did with me earlier today.
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