Feld Thoughts

Brad has been involved in early-stage investing and entrepreneurship since 1987. Before he helped establish Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and previously created Intensity Ventures. Additionally, Brad played a key role in co-founding Techstars. He is also an author and speaker focusing on venture capital and entrepreneurship. Brad has written several books in the Startup Revolution series and maintains a blog called Feld Thoughts.

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My Upcoming Events in Boulder

1 week ago | feld.com | Brad Feld

Now that I’m out of hibernation for a while and back in Boulder for a month, I’m doing a bunch of public events. My approach, in general, is fireside chats or AMAs, so that’ll be the rhythm rather than me getting up in front of a crowd and blathering about something for 30 to 45 minutes.
This Week In Vibe Coding Learning

1 week ago | feld.com | Brad Feld

Question: If you had limited experience with graphic design software but wanted to do basic stuff for web design, what software would you use? Leave the answers in the comments or email me. As I play around with Vibe coding, I’ve decided to take a new topic each week. For context, look at my Dinostroids: My Journey into Vibe Coding. Or just go play Dinostroids. This week, I’ve been learning how to modify WordPress themes.
Book: Carrie Soto Is Back

1 week ago | feld.com | Brad Feld

I had a weird, unsatisfying, and not particularly restful weekend because of Colorado politics and post-exertional malaise. So, in between work, a short run, a long nap, a bunch of online Swedish death cleaning, and lying on the couch responding to endless text messages, I read Carrie Soto Is Back and The Big Gamble (Kevin Kerney Novels Series Book 7).
The Cost of Passive Avoidance

2 weeks ago | feld.com | Brad Feld

It’s pre-order time for Give First: The Power of Mentorship. If you find this post’s topic interesting, help boost my input into the Amazon algorithm by pre-ordering the book. I’ve failed at many things. Anyone with a lot of success has also had plenty of failure. If a successful person denies this, they are lying. Reflecting on my professional failures, some resulted from passively avoiding a situation. These are the ones I regret the most because my behavior is under my control.
Startup Community Trailblazer Brad Feld to Release New Book at GEC 2025

2 weeks ago | feld.com | Brad Feld

“Startup Community Trailblazer” is a fancy title for me, but I’ll take it. I’ve decided to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2025 in Indianapolis to launch Give First: The Power of Mentorship. I’ll be there from mid-Monday (June 2) through the end of Tuesday (June 3), and my presentation will be the closing keynote on Tuesday from 4:15 to 5:00 on the main stage. I attended GEC in Rio in 2013 and have been friends with Jonathan Ortmans, the founder and president, for many years.
Read Everything - Feld Thoughts

2 weeks ago | feld.com | Brad Feld

I love to read. As a kid, my idea of a good time was being in the hammock in the backyard of my house in Dallas, Texas, reading a book. My parents supported this, letting me read anything I wanted from their bookshelves (I read The Drifters at much too young an age). I loved buying books, and today, I have an infinite number of unread books on my Kindle. I vary my reading diet and log it all in Goodreads (ignore the stars). One of my “book heroes” is Ryan Holiday.
Dinostroids: My Journey into Vibe Coding

2 weeks ago | feld.com | Brad Feld

Dinostroids, my first vibe-coded software project, is live. The last time I wrote any meaningful amount of production software was in 1990. At the time, I was running a software consulting company with my partner, Dave Jilk. We’d reached the point where, as we grew, he became responsible for all the software, and I handled all the network integration stuff we had to do for our clients. Every now and then, I’d have to do maintenance on something I had written in the past, but it was pretty minimal.
Are You Ok? - Brad Feld

3 weeks ago | feld.com | Brad Feld

After I wrote my post on Unhibernating, my long-time, empathetic friend Christopher Schroeder, whom I originally met through Ben Casnocha (that story is discussed in Give First: The Power of Mentorship), sent me a short note asking, “Have you been ok?”I responded with a long email explaining why I decided to hibernate in the summer of 2023 and why this hibernation lasted almost two years.
Book: Scaleup Arabia: Journeys & Lessons from Top Founders & Leaders Driving Growth in MENA & Beyond

3 weeks ago | feld.com | Brad Feld

In addition to writing books, I love supporting books written by friends. Amir Hagazi has published his newest book, Scaleup Arabia: Journeys & Lessons from Top Founders & Leaders Driving Growth in MENA & Beyond. The image above shows some of the founders highlighted in the book, and the image below shows some of the companies discussed in the book.
Unhibernating For A While

3 weeks ago | feld.com | Brad Feld

I’ve decided to come out of hibernation until at least Labor Day. While this coincides with the publication of my new book, Give First: The Power of Mentorship, I also have a few things on my mind that I feel like blogging about. If you know me, you probably know that I explore ideas by writing about them, and have always learned a lot when I think out loud by writing in public. I hibernated in the summer of 2023. I stopped blogging, podcasting, and engaging on all social media.