Startup Trek spent a week in Boulder, Colorado last month, getting to know some of the entrepreneurs in Boulder. We were fortunate to kick things off by interviewing leading Venture Capitalist Brad Feld, Managing Director of Foundry Group, at their offices in Downtown Boulder, CO. Segment 1, a 12-minute session, covers Brad’s prolific career from his M.I.T. days to present career building startups, Angel investments, and getting into the venture capital business.
Tomorrow’s ‘Segment 2′ covers how Foundry Group was put together, and it’s investment strategies. In segment 3, Brad shares some advice for budding entrepreneurs. For you collegiate and post-collegiate young entrepreneurs – we were able to coax three bits of advice out of Brad, for first time entrepreneurs and collegiate entrepreneurs. They are three Gems, so don’t miss it.
We covered a lot of ground in an hour, and if you listen to the interview you will learn a lot about how a VC at the top if his game thinks and operates. We also learned about TechStars, which Brad and his partner on that activity, David Cohen lead.
Brad surprised us before our interview, by kindly offered to introduce Startup Trek to leading entrepreneurs around the Boulder area (those interviews will appear on this site shortly). Thanks, Brad — we appreciate all the introductions! Videos from those interviews will be appearing daily now.
Guys! Great that you've managed to get some time with Brad, but can you do a video shooting and editing course? Audio track swapping, conflicting angles, lighting – I could go on…. and then Pt1 ends mid-sentence! This deserves better!
Ouch! Yes we know there is a problem with the audio at the start and will have a re-edited version. This is our first multi-camera shoot and we ran into some major headaches – new editing platform using multi-camera editing functionality. We’ve been taking plenty of training but have a ways to go:) We’re testing a theory that this sort of production can be done more cost-effectively than hiring a production crew, with the latest tools and self-training; but the jury is still out on that. Thanks for your input Mark and we’ll update soon.
I've tried to play this video from both Feld's site, and Startuptrek, and it goes nowhere – black screen. Reads like it would be worthwhile to view and I hope you/Kaltura can get it fixed.
Sorry about that! Kaltura cut off our video hosting after we over-ran the bandwidth of our plan 250%
We have an upgrade in process – should come back online by mid-day tomorrow (hopefully sooner). Two more interview segments with Brad on tap, too.