Brad Feld
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Venture Deals
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2011
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Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
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2010
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Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
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2012
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Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur
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2012
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Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors
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2013
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The Startup Community Way: How to Build an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem That Thrives
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2020
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Burning Entrepreneur: How to Launch, Fund, and Set Your Startup on Fire
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2012
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Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job
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Beyond The Blog: Brad Feld's Burning Entrepreneur: How to Launch, Fund, and Set
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Startup Metrics: Making Sense of the Numbers in Your Startup
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2013
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“as you'll learn, there really are only two key things that matter in the actual term sheet negotiation—economics and control.”
― Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
― Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
“Failure is a key part of entrepreneurship, but, as with many things in life, attitude impacts outcome”
― Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
― Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
“While the range of people, organizations, resources, and conditions involved in an entrepreneurial ecosystem are useful to understand, they are not the most critical construct. Instead, the interaction between each of the components is what matters.”
― The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
― The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
“When Baby Boomers grow up and write books to explain why one or another individual is successful, they point to the power of a particular individual’s context as determined by chance. But they miss the even bigger social context for their own preferred explanations: a whole generation learned from childhood to overrate the power of chance and underrate the importance of planning. Gladwell at first appears to be making a contrarian critique of the myth of the self-made businessman, but actually his own account encapsulates the conventional view of a generation.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“We can start the process of reform by being honest with seniors. Many are led to believe that they have somehow paid for their benefits and that they have earned unconstrained Medicare. Yet the average person joining Medicare today has paid roughly $60,000 into the program over their lifetime and will use $170,000 in benefits.”
― Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
― Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
“This short book will argue that human-level AIs—I’ll just call them “AIs” from now on—are plausible, that they could become extremely powerful, that we need to solve many problems in ethics and mathematics in order to program them safely, and that our current expertise is far from adequate for the task.”
― Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence
― Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence
“He should call it Oronzi’s Law: Any sufficiently-advanced intelligence will be indistinguishable from insanity.”
― Supersymmetry
― Supersymmetry
“The only way you win is by knowing what you’re good at and what you’re not good at, and sticking to what you’re good at.”
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