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MAY 12, 2010

Two people whom I respect (Babak Nivi and Brad Feld) added commentary that made me want to come back and clarify my thoughts. A long time ago was a developer and we did everything as per the waterfall method. Over time at my first startup our developers encouraged us to move to Agile development.

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MARCH 5, 2012

.” I recently discussed the explosion of seed accelerators and incubators with Brad Feld, who, as the Co-Founder of acclaimed startup accelerator TechStars , is uniquely qualified to opine upon the subject. You can watch my seven minute discussion with Brad below or on YouTube here: [link].

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JULY 9, 2012

We all could learn a bit more about balance , as Brad Feld has outlined. 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. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate. You can now take advantage of this wisdom directly as Brad has now published it for everybody in a fantastic new book, “Startup Communities.” Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld.

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MARCH 2, 2011

After the weekend kerfuffle over AngelList I was reading Brad Feld’s post on Signal vs. Noise. But aside from choosing the time of day to focus on signal vs. noise, Brad’s post got me thinking about another question – what is signal and what is noise? Brad is a zero inbox kind of guy. I enjoy that.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 7, 2013

I explored this issue in a recent conversation with fellow WSJ Accelerator, Brad Feld. According to Brad, "There is a fundamental difference between an incubator and an accelerator… an incubator has an economic model that is based around having people be tenants. Having people being captive within some investor’s…sphere.

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MARCH 23, 2014

You may enjoy this post as an example that talks about my first meetings with Brad Feld, Tristan Walker, Justyn Howard and more. Let’s say your a junior developer, marketer, product manager, biz dev person at a startup or well-established technology company. Maybe 50 if you really invest time and effort. Roger Ehrenberg.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Wise And Feld To The Rescue. Sean Wise and Brad Feld's Startup Opportunities, Know When To Quit Your Day Job is for students B and C. Sean and Brad consistently maintain a straightforward writing style that allows readers to readily focus on the content, rather than parsing dense, rhetorical flourishes.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Brad Feld points out in his widely-read book Startup Communities , that business schools within universities are generally devoid of innovation and thus are not engines of entrepreneurship. Brad believes that by placing entrepreneurial programs within Business Schools, ".a Techpreneurs.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

For those of you who may not be familiar with Chris, he spent the past year connecting and developing the LA startup scene by building on and offline community at Coloft , one of the most recognized hub for startup activity in Los Angeles. So who is the man leading the charge for your local Los Angeles Startup Foundation.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Despite the snarky rumors that Google’s content development program was poorly managed at its outset (e.g., Although estimates of Google’s total investment vary, the industry insiders I spoke with believe it exceeded $100 million. Earlier this month, Google announced that it will spend an additional $200 million to promote YouTube content.

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APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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AUGUST 14, 2010

Well Brad Feld, who recently visited us in LA , quoted Mark Pincus in saying, “be the CEO of your own job.&# So to bring solutions you need to be the CEO of your own job. with the pickup in tech hiring we’re seeing a lot of our developers getting calls from other startups.&#. So what does it mean to bring solutions?

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AUGUST 15, 2010

You bump into the person you’ve always wanted to chat with or your perfect business development partner who can “make” you. Brad Feld was sitting at my table. Once they have buy-off from David Cohen, Brad and others they have their 60-second pitch. So my list for you is: Develop your 60-second pitch. Don’t wing it.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2014

I was checking out your YouTube channel and I enjoyed your recent talk with Brad Feld. Lesson: Assess the affinity you have (or have not) developed during your conversation and tailor your "ask" to fit the tenor of the discussion. A more effective approach would have been: “John, I really appreciate your time.

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MARCH 23, 2015

We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles. My initial blogging inspiration was actually Brad Feld because as an entrepreneur I always wanted to work with Brad after reading his advice on term sheets and the like.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. Our users are web develops, and technical people, who are the companies who are applying to TechStars, and who closely follow TechStars as a community.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. “VC and former entrepreneur Brad Feld also blogged about how many of his frat buddies at MIT had become successful entrepreneurs. If you have the innate DNA PLUS you put in the 10,000 hours then you are more likely to be at the top of your game.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You really should go read Brad Feld's Implied Suspicion Versus Implied Trust. Lots of thoughts here.

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MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But we do have great technology developers. You don’t. Get over it. Come join us.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You really should go read Brad Feld's Implied Suspicion Versus Implied Trust. Lots of thoughts here.

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MARCH 2, 2010

I hope some day to emulate Brad Feld in this area. I’ve already allocated that time as “general networking time.&# I’ve developed a system for the polite “no&# in this context. So I often advise these people to find me at a conference and I promise to spend time with them there.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

As we have developed over the last few years, we've started running our own events, and tried out our own connect weekend in 2014, and that went to a full week the next year. However, we have broad groups of entrepreneurs and types of technology, which makes it challenging to develop programming around that fits everyone.

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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. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. We provided them with our tactics, without explaining our strategy.” A company has a personality.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. The other amazing thing, is getting access to people like David Cohen and Brad Feld. What was the most valuable thing about TechStars for you?

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MAY 26, 2011

And just as my gut feel about the likely success of startups is often determined by looking at their velocity of product development and market progress of their product, so too is recruiting a factor in my assessment. Brad Feld and I were discussing the topic at lunch at the most excellent Glue Conference this week in Boulder.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

We''re taking a fairly unique approach to program development, however, in that we will get involved with nonprofits and people with program ideas, and figure out how to fund them. If you''re familiar with Brad Feld''s book, Startup Community, entrepreneurial efforts need to be run by the technology entrepreneurs and CEOs.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

It was based on an excellent book I had just read by Brad Feld & Amy Batchelor (his wife). Respect and develop a positive working relationship with his co-workers. I recently wrote a post about how to manage relationships when you’re at a startup or are busy executive.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Innovative.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Like Brad Feld I’m syndication agnostic but I have a slight preference toward working with others. The obvious positive is that there is a lot less time spent raising money and more time spent on building the business at a critical stage in the company’s development. This is the nature of compromise.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

“What you get&# is one of the most mature, seasoned & experienced mobile games developers that has existed. It was just a hobby that was inspired by Brad Feld & how much he gave back to the community (and me as an entrepreneur) and Fred Wilson who’s blog became a daily staple. Mostly, I love writing.

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JULY 4, 2011

Or if you’re a developer perhaps you could donate time by dedicated to their hack-a-thon? In America we have people like Steve Case, Brad Feld, Dave McClure, Shervin Pishevar. Warning: they have a minimum donation size of $1. As Charles would tell you, even small donations help make young kids dreams come true.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

They’ve spent years developing a hypothesis and have invested their own time and money into a vision, so it can be frustrating to hear an investor pick that idea apart,” said Charles LaCalle, Head of Sourcing at Dreamit Ventures. I would advise trying not to get into an argument with an investor.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

In VC there are the obvious people including Bijan, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Josh Kopelman and Bryce Roberts. Half baked ideas get refined, new ideas emerge and a two way dialoge develops where a one way monologue once was.&#. I’m sure there are many more. I would mostly lump me in that category. Beautifully written.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. Startup neighborhoods develop more readily in larger cities, like Boston, New York, London, or the San Francisco Bay Area. Physical capital – infrastructure, density, place quality.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Especially for their stage of development. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. So these guys have both deep domain experience as well as tons of startup chops. What was I thinking?

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