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JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group. According to Brad, “I would say my whole universe is probably categorized as guerilla marketing.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

With the exception of the week of Thanksgiving, I published two entries every week during 2011. I published 21-Skype interviews during 2011. Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011. The following entries generated the most page views during 2011. Surprisingly, not all of these entries were published in 2011.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

2011 was the year of the video interview, in which I spoke with the likes of Guy Kawasaki, Len Short, Brad Feld, Naval Ravikant and Steve Blank. Exposure on these sites more than doubled my readership from 2011. TechStar Co-Founder Brad Feld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble? >

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MARCH 5, 2012

By mid-2011 he noted, “As seed accelerators have exploded in number world-wide, it’s become nearly impossible to keep this (Google Doc) working.” You can watch my seven minute discussion with Brad below or on YouTube here: [link]. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators.

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JANUARY 13, 2013

first world problems and all] But I did feel like 2012 was particularly tough for me having closed out 2011 losing a close family member and dealing with cancer with both family members and close friends. And I was glad to count Brad as a friend. After all, you’d have to be a really big baby to complain about being a VC.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Thus, during the past decade, the more common route to seed and Series A investing has been an entrepreneurial career, personified by such investors as: Dave McClure, Chris Dixon, Brad Feld and Mark Suster. According to the NVCA, only 45 first-time funds were launched in 2011.

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JULY 30, 2012

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. However at the 2011 Hospitality Conference, he allowed his desire to make an impact impair his reasoning when he hired a band of masked parcours.

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