We’ll Make Great Pets

Feld Thoughts 8/14 4:59A Brad Feld

Dear AIs, I woke up this morning with this song in my head . I m your friend. I ll be nice to you. Please be nice to me. Love, Brad Children are innocent, yeah Teenagers fucked up in the head Adults are only more fucked up And elderlies are like...

Give First Podcast with Bobby Franklin of the NVCA

Feld Thoughts 7/30 6:59A Brad Feld

I recently had a 30-minute chat (the average length of the Give First podcast interviews that I do) with Bobby Franklin , the CEO of the National Venture Capital Association . We ve been supporters of the NVCA for many years. Two Foundry...

My Favorite Books Become Movies

Feld Thoughts 7/3 3:42A Brad Feld

I am an enormous Andy Weir fan I think a long dinner 1:1 with him would be epicly fun. While I usually run naked (I don t listen to anything), I ll occasionally add an audiobook during a marathon training period. During the summer training for...

Podcasts on The Startup Community Movement

Feld Thoughts 7/2 4:50A Brad Feld

As I wander around Seattle for a few days, including a fun event with JP Morgan in the morning and PSL at the end of the day, I ve been pondering the evolution of startup communities. I first started...

Non-Transactional, Positive-Sum, and Multi-Turn

Feld Thoughts 6/27 5:12A Brad Feld

I spent two days in Toronto (hosted by Matt Golden at Golden Ventures) and a day in Upstate New York (hosted by Martin Babinec ) this week as part of the launch of Give First: The Power of Mentorship...

Give First is a Philosophy, Not a Religion

Feld Thoughts 6/24 5:05A Brad Feld

Give First: The Power of Mentorship is now available in both physical and Kindle formats. BradTheBookSalesman says, Don t wait, buy it today! And yes, someday it will be available as an audiobook. As...

Book: Fever Pitch: A Novel About Selling Your Vision, Raising Venture Capital, and Launching Your...

Feld Thoughts 6/23 4:48A Brad Feld

As I gear up for the official launch of Give First: The Power of Mentorship this week, I spent the weekend reading, playing with my 7GL, running, celebrating my 32nd wedding anniversary with Amy, and hanging out with some friends who were in...

LLMs Just Lie

Feld Thoughts 6/20 7:30A Brad Feld

The AI hallucination problem is well known. If you ve used any of the LLMs with any depth, I expect you ve encountered this. One of the hints for me has been that when I press on something or ask the question from a different angle, I get either...

We Are All Just Dust In the Wind

Feld Thoughts 6/18 5:37A Brad Feld

Today, during morning coffee, as we were talking, Amy mentioned that she had already heard  Dust in the Wind by Kansas, which is in heavy rotation on our Amy s Faves playlist. Just a drop of water in...

Notes on marketing

Venture Hacks 6/18 5:18A Nivi

Marketing is not the task of telling people about your product. Rather, it is the continuous process of generating knowledge that your customers will clamor for. Here are some marketing principles I like to keep in mind: Not being real is the one...

Give First: Kindle Version Available Today

Feld Thoughts 6/17 5:19A Brad Feld

The Kindle version of Give First: The Power of Mentorship launched today and is available for 50% of the regular Kindle price. Brad the Book Salesman says, Please still buy the regular version also,...

Being Full of Value‑Added Shit

Feld Thoughts 6/12 8:46A Brad Feld

My morning started early with a 6:30 a. m. drive to Denver to give a talk about  Give First: The Power of Mentorship , which Erik Mitisek had organized for a group of Denver-area founders. In it, one of Erik s questions caused me to go off on a...

Substack vs. X vs. LinkedIn vs. Medium vs. Blog

Feld Thoughts 6/9 4:15A Brad Feld

I m so confused. I suppose that s what you get when you hibernate from all things public for two years, then pick your head up and try to figure out the best way to engage with the world again. When life was simpler, I just posted to my blog at...

Is This What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works?

Feld Thoughts 6/8 4:26A Brad Feld

For your Sunday morning (or daytime) reading, take a look at Tyler Austin Harper s article in The Atlantic titled What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works . Since coming out of hibernation, I ve had many bizarre conversations with...