Brad Feld (Foundry Group, TechStars) - Great Entrepreneurs Go Out and Do

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2011

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Entrepreneur and early-stage investor Brad Feld offers advice and support to aspiring entrepreneurs. Feld, a managing partner at Foundry Group and a co-founder of TechStars, imparts personal experiences on managing your life as an entrepreneur. He also shares some of the defining characteristics his firm looks for in the entrepreneurs they invest in.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.7	I am pleased to introduce today's speaker Brad Feld.
0:23.6	Brad is a fantastic venture capitalist.
0:27.6	Brad has just released a recent book, How to Be Smarter Than Your V-C,
0:33.6	which is terrific and required reading in my class.
0:36.6	Brad serves on the board of Zinga, among many other companies.
0:41.3	And he's just a fantastic person to boot.
0:43.3	So I'm really excited to have Bradfeld,
0:46.3	managing director and founder of Foundry Group here today.
0:49.3	Brad.
0:57.0	Thanks, Thanks, thank you. What Heidi didn't say is that we worked together for seven or eight years.
1:03.0	So Heidi.
1:04.0	Seventy dog years.
1:06.0	Seventy dog years.
1:07.0	So Heidi has all kinds of stories about me for later on.
1:12.5	So what I thought I'd do is talk about a couple of specific things today.
1:19.4	And I was looking at some of the previous talks to try to get a sense of the tempo of the kind of talks that have happened.
1:27.2	And what I sort of really tried to put myself
1:30.3	in was my shoes when I was an undergrad at MIT looking forward. So I'm going to talk a little
1:37.9	bit from that frame of reference throughout the course of the chunk of time today. I'll talk for 30, 40 minutes, and then we'll do Q&A,
1:47.0	so hopefully we'll have plenty of time.
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