Brad Feld Books
Brad Feld is a co-founder of Foundry Group and Techstars, with decades of experience investing in early-stage technology companies.
Known for: Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup, The Entrepreneur's Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors, Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Books by Brad Feld
Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is a practical guide for entrepreneurs, offering insights from the TechStars accelerator program. The book compiles advice, case studies, a...
The Entrepreneur's Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors
This book pairs the provocative aphorisms of Friedrich Nietzsche with modern entrepreneurial insights. Each of the 52 chapters begins with a Nietzsche quote and explores how his philosophy can inspire...
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Raising venture capital can feel like entering a high-stakes negotiation in a foreign language. Founders are expected to discuss liquidation preferences, option pools, protective provisions, and board...
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The 'Do More Faster' Philosophy
When I first coined the phrase ‘Do More Faster,’ it came not from theory but from observing patterns across hundreds of startups at TechStars. The most successful founders weren’t those who spent months perfecting a pitch deck or deliberating on idea minutiae—they were the ones who embraced rapid cy...
From Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
People: The Core of Every Startup
In all my years at TechStars, one pattern never failed: the strongest startups were driven not by brilliant code or marketing, but by exceptional people. We invest first and foremost in founders, not ideas. Ideas evolve; people determine how effectively you adapt and execute. Building a startup is ...
From Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
Nietzsche’s Challenge to Conformity
To begin, Nietzsche teaches us the courage to reject the herd. He warned that 'those who follow the herd never find their own step.' For an entrepreneur, that herd mentality is the gravitational pull of consensus, the tendency to imitate what works instead of inventing what could be. When everyone i...
From The Entrepreneur's Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors
The Will to Power and Ambition
The will to power is Nietzsche’s most misunderstood yet most vital concept for entrepreneurs. He did not mean domination over others, but the inner drive to expand one’s creative force—to become what one is capable of being. For entrepreneurs, this translates into ambition not as greed or ego, but a...
From The Entrepreneur's Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors
The Players Shape Every Venture Deal
Every venture deal looks like a financial transaction on paper, but it is really a relationship among people with different incentives, fears, and timelines. That is the first big lesson of Venture Deals: before you analyze clauses, percentages, and valuations, you need to understand who is sitting ...
From Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
How Venture Funds Really Make Decisions
Many founders negotiate with venture capitalists as if they are wealthy individuals writing personal checks. In reality, most VCs are managers of structured funds with obligations to their own investors, and that fact influences almost every decision they make. Understanding the mechanics of a ventu...
From Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
About Brad Feld
Brad Feld is a co-founder of Foundry Group and Techstars, with decades of experience investing in early-stage technology companies.
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