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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20 VC 065: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Brad Feld: Founders Should Be Obsessed, Passion Belongs In The Bedroom

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

The Twenty Minute VC

Finance, Venturecapital, Tech News, News, Siliconvalley, Technology, Investing, Startups, Business

4.4637 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Brad Feld is one of the world's leading VCs having Co-Founded Foundry Group, Brad has made investments in the likes of ZyngaMakerbot and Fitbit, just to name a few. Brad is also Co-Founder of Techstars, one of the world's most prominent startup accelerators, whose portfolio companies have raised over $1.3bn in funding.

 

If that wasn't enough Brad is also a best selling author having co-athoured Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC, alongside Dick Costolo and Startup Communities: Building An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your Community. In addition to his investing and writing, Brad has been active with several non-profit organizations and currently is chair of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and co-chair of Startup Colorado. Brad is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship and writes the widely read blogs Feld ThoughtsStartup Revolution, and Ask the VC.

In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How Brad made his move from entrepreneurship to VC and later co-founding, The Foundry Group.

2.) Does Brad agree with the view that it is important for entrepreneurs to fail?

3.) Why did Brad turn Fitbit down on 1st opportunity and what changed the 2nd time?

4.) What gets Brad excited in a startup? What areas are Brad most interested in?

5.) What is the main characteristic that makes the Foundry Group the huge success it is?

 

Items Mentioned In Today's Episode:

Brad's Fave  Business Books: 

1.) Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

2.) Hot Seat by Dan Shapiro

Brad's Fave Blog or Newsletter: Fred Wilson's BlogDan Primack: TermSheetMatterMark Daily

Brad's Most Recent Investments: GlowForge: The 3D Laser PrinterSphero

 

As always you can follow HarryThe Twenty Minute VCBrad and Foundry Group on Twitter here!

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the 20 minute VC with your host, Harry Stebbings, and this is probably the most excited I have ever been on the show as I present our first feature week dedicated to one VC fund.

0:12.1

Of course, when the decision came, we chose the Foundry Group.

0:15.9

And today I welcome Brad Feld.

0:18.3

Brad is one of the world's leading VCs having co-founded Foundry Group. Brad

0:23.0

has made investments in the likes of Zinger, MakerBot and Fitbit, just to name a few. Brad is also

0:29.6

co-founder of tech stars, one of the world's most prominent startup accelerators, whose portfolio

0:35.5

companies have raised over $1.3 billion in funding.

0:39.3

If that wasn't enough, Brad is also a best-selling author, having co-authored venture deals alongside Dick Costolo, and startup communities.

0:48.3

In addition to his investing and writing, Brad has been active with several non-profit organisations and is currently chair

0:55.8

of the National Centre for Women in Information Technology and he's the co-chair of Startup, Colorado.

1:02.0

Brad is a nationally recognised speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship

1:07.5

and writes the widely read blogs, Feldelt Thoughts, Startup Revolution,

1:12.6

and Ask the VC.

1:14.6

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1:41.8

But ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, it is a huge honour to introduce to you, Bradfeld.

1:47.0

Three, two, one, zero.

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