Building Startups, Communities, and Writing Books with Brad Feld

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: Building Startups, Communities, and Writing Books with Brad Feld
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 01:02:03
• Published: 2013-07-01 10:00

Brad Feld is a well-known entrepreneur, angel investor, and venture capitalist. He's been starting businesses since he was 19 years old and has become a household name in the startup world. Here are some highlights from our chat:

• How Starting Businesses Has Influenced Brad's Investment Approach 
• A Look at Creating Business, Teams, and the Daily Grind
• Signs of Success or Failure in Entrepreneurs and Startups
• Why You Must Truly Care About the Work That You're Doing
• The Importance of Being Completely Obsessed with Your Product
• Understanding the Two Spectrums of Motivation
• The Role that Learning and Teaching Play in Brad's Life and Business
• Building Things into Your Work Process that Meet Your Reward Needs
• The Reason You Can't Use a Formula to Repeat Success
• Lessons Learned from Brad's Failure as a Co-Founder

Tweetable Insights Include:

• If you're not spending the majority of your time on things you care about, something's wrong (Click to Tweet)
• Passion is necessary but not sufficient  (Click to Tweet)
• You can't motivate somebody. You can only create context (Click to Tweet)
• As an entrepreneur you should be constantly open to new stimuli (Click to Tweet)

Brad Feld is a managing director at Foundry Group, lives in Boulder, Colorado, invests in software and Internet companies around the US, runs marathons, and reads a lot. You can follow him on twitter @bfeld. If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter. Oh, and we’d be really grateful if you write us a review in iTunes.