A Tweet, Vibe Coding, Jj, and Grok Walk Into A Bar

Feld Thoughts 5/29 8:38A Brad Feld

This played out on @bfeld on X , and I thought it was fun enough to replay it here for anyone who is struggling to get their minds around vibe coding and current AI tooling. If you are receiving this via email and the tweets/X s aren t showing,...

Give First – Table of Contents

Feld Thoughts 5/27 5:43A Brad Feld

As a voracious reader , I love a good table of contents (TOC) as the roadmap to a book. While fiction is often structured as Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter N, some of the best fiction writers are creative with their TOC. Any non-fiction...

Beware the Grinfuckers

Feld Thoughts 5/26 6:53A Brad Feld

I did a talk with a private community of 100 GPs and investors in venture capital called Aces last week. It s an off-the-record, confidential group organized by a few people, including Max Beaumont , who said I could mention him in this post. Max...

Venture Deals Summer Course 2025 Enrollment Is Open

Feld Thoughts 5/22 7:40A Brad Feld

Registration for the Venture Deals Summer 2025  online, self-guided, free course by Techstars and Kauffman Fellows starts today. It s based on the book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and...

Back in Boulder

Feld Thoughts 5/12 3:58A Brad Feld

As a proud early Gen Xer, I was in ninth grade when Back in Black came out. It was my favorite song for at least a week, and it s still in my top 10 (something by Rush likely displaced it.) As a teenager, I knew everything about AC/DC (at least...

Book: Carrie Soto Is Back

Feld Thoughts 5/5 7:46A 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...

The Five "Ups" of Getting Early Stage VC Deal Flow

Thisisgoingtobebig.com 5/2 4:00A Charlie O'Donnell

How do you get 150+ VCs to show up for something? Promise them some good deal flow, of course. nextNYC, the startup events platform I run, produces the largest formal VC/Founder intro event at NY Tech...

Startup Community Trailblazer Brad Feld to Release New Book at GEC 2025

Feld Thoughts 5/1 8:54A 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...

Read Everything

Feld Thoughts 4/29 8:40A 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...

Unhibernating For A While

Feld Thoughts 4/21 7:52A 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,...

Tadpoles, Frogs and What You Need for a Series A

Thisisgoingtobebig.com 3/31 12:22A Charlie O'Donnell

A lot of founders ask, “What are the metrics for a Series A?” I’ve said this for years. I’ll say it again if you come see our panel on this in NYC Tuesday night where we talk with two founders who...

Let's Talk About Anxiety, Fear of Failure, and Why I Didn't Go to The Dentist for 27 Years

Thisisgoingtobebig.com 3/21 1:06A Charlie O'Donnell

This week, I got my wisdom teeth out—all four of them. You might be wondering what took me so long. I’m 45 and most people have them out between the ages of 17 and 25. One helpful bit of context is that until very recently, I hadn’t been to the...