brad-feld 
InfoChachkie
JULY 23, 2012
Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. companies should… focus on building amazing products. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group. Chris is the CEO of Gnip , a Foundry Group portfolio company.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2016
We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 9, 2012
We all could learn a bit more about balance , as Brad Feld has outlined. How to help his companies. The Dave I know is a tireless traveler and loyal to his friends the way Brad Feld is. Brad does this kind of thing for people. Hell, I can barely manage 10 investments – how could anybody do 500?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2013
You can build a meaningful company just about wherever these days. ” Most VCs view it as their responsibility to mentor, debate, cajole and generally assist with investments they make. They also view it as a responsibility of the money they manage on behalf of others to provide oversight of these companies. Not easily.
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 15, 2012
There are many paths into the VC world, but they can generally be lumped into two categories: (i) serial entrepreneurship, and (ii) tech-oriented investment banking. I define a "VC" as, "a professional investor who deploys third-party funds into relatively early-stage companies." Manipulate Your Odds.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 3, 2009
There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. Twiistup 6 featured 12 showoff companies as the opening act of a 2-day conference. We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.
SoCal CTO
APRIL 8, 2010
Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.) And it made me sad.
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