Repeat after me: 'There is a very limited amount of easy money.' Brad Feld More Quotes by Brad Feld More Quotes From Brad Feld I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes. Brad Feld youfeartimehistory Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks. Brad Feld everythingtechnologyairtravel I've been using email since 1983. I started with MH and Rmail, then cc:Mail, then Microsoft Mail, with Compuserve mixed in. Eventually, I ended up using Pine for non-Windows stuff and Outlook for Windows stuff. For a while. Brad Feld pineupemailmicrosoft Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning. Brad Feld momentyoueatingtoday While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows. Brad Feld livepacebusylife A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target. Brad Feld facenothingblameleader A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy. Brad Feld goodyougood-healthhealth Don't be afraid to have a big vision, but make sure it's a clear one. Brad Feld makeafraidbigvision I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It's not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message. Brad Feld wordssayingseechange As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it's frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it. Brad Feld keyfutureinnovationbelieve While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives. Brad Feld stresshealthstruggledepression What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me. Brad Feld personlookingmethinking I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015. Brad Feld womenmarriagemenreligion I'm usually an excruciatingly happy person. Brad Feld personhappy-personhappy I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period. Brad Feld i-amyoubusinesslong One of my core values is diversity of everything. Brad Feld everythingcorevaluesdiversity It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of people. Brad Feld someoneintroductiontryingpeople So many companies talk about increasing the number of prospects at the top of the funnel, but they spend remarkably little time making sure actions are taken - on a daily basis - to make sure these prospects convert into paid users. Brad Feld dailytalktoptime Lots of entrepreneurs don't want to be hassled by a board of directors early on. The entrepreneurs want to control the company, don't want to be responsible to a board, or don't want to waste time communicating with board members. This is a classic error of thinking about the early stage board incorrectly. Brad Feld waste-timecontroltimethinking Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting. Brad Feld newgreatteamreal
