Amy and I have been sponsors of the Boulder International Film Festival for a while. We've also been helping fund documentaries and have received several executive producer credits. Two of these films are in the 2023 Boulder International Film Festival on March 2 – 5, 2023. Afghan Dreamers is the story of an all-girls robotics […] The p...

Just over three months ago, along with our terrific partners at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), we announced the formation of a new company called RightMove Health, which has as its goal to make high quality, patient-focused virtual musculoskeletal … Continue reading →

Crypto market cap saw net outflows of $48.8 billion over the last 24 hours and currently stands at $1.013 trillion down 4.6% from $1.062 trillion BTC and ETH's market cap fell 4.3% and 6%, respectively, while Polkadot … Weiterlesen →

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. We're on a mission to help you be remarkable. Assisting me in this episode is the remarkable Gretchen Carlson. Gretchen became a voice for the voiceless after she went public with harassment claims against then Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes. This courageous act accelerated The post Gretchen C...

In 2020, Marc Andreessen published a profound essay in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that became a rallying cry for startups called; It's Time To Build. In it, he discusses the importance of building various businesses, from housing, education, manufacturing, and transportation anything that might hasten the dream of entrepreneurship and const...

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. Were on a mission to help you be remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Derek Sivers is a former musician, circus ringleader, entrepreneur, programmer, and TED speaker. He is the founder of CD Baby, which he started by accident in 1998 when he was selling The post Derek Sivers: Taking Care of Busi...

I've never done a cleanse. But many of my friends and family members have done them. There are various flavors of cleanses but the basic idea is you cut back your consumption of food and drink and replace it with mostly liquid nutrition for anywhere from a day to a month. I believe the most […]

I've co-founded or been an early investor in many things. One of my favorites is the MIT Banana Lounge. I will be hanging out there Tuesday afternoon and doing an AMA from 2pm to 4pm. It began with an email from Zoe Sheill. I met Zoe at PSL when she was an intern the summer […] The post The MIT Banana Lounge appeared first on Brad Feld.

Dave Jilk and I had a long discussion last night, which included some rambling about AI. If you have been following me for a while, you know that in 2010 I stated that the machines have already taken over for us and are patiently waiting for us to feed all human knowledge into them. This […] The post AI and the HyperEncabulator appeared first...

Conflux native token (CFX) has surged up to 60% in the last 24 hours, following the protocol's successful integration with the Chinese app called Little Red Book. Little Red Book announced on Jan. 24 that it has integrated … Weiterlesen →

I've got another great episode of the Remarkable People podcast for you. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Mark Labberton. He was the president of Fuller Theological Seminary at the time of this interview. He recently retired. LISTEN TO THE EPISODE HERE Fuller is The post Mark Labberton: Christ...

Some day there will be a genre called "startup fiction." I mean, if science fiction, which is a sub-genre of fiction, can have libertarian science fiction and recursive science fiction, surely startup fiction belongs in a sub-genre of a sub-genre of a sub-genre. Please Report Your Bug Here by Josh Reidel is an excellent example […] The post B...

Obviously, the problems addressed by healthcare technology did not just get cut in half. So, what accounts for the rather dramatic decline in venture investment in digital health from $29.3 billion in 2021 to $15.3 billion in 2022, according to … Continue reading →

I usually do a few interviews (podcasts?) at the beginning of the year. I avoid all of the end of the prior year "what do you predict for next year" stuff and find that several long-form interviews at the beginning of the year allow me to get out of my head what's going on from […] The post Interviews about Dealing with 2023 appeared first on...

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Have you ever pondered the mother of all questions: How do I achieve happiness? We have the answer for you. Robert Waldinger is the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. This is the longest scientific study The post Robert Waldinger: How to Be ...

It has been many years since I've written code. I've hacked around in HTML and CSS a bit on this blog and a few other places. But I have not actually written an application in a very long time. I think it might be thirty years since I've done any real programming. Over the year-end […]

I read two books by Ted Conover over the weekend. Amy gave me the first one as a present. A few years ago, we bought a bunch of land about an hour's drive away from Aspen. I've been spending a lot more time in the middle of nowhere Colorado, especially now that I have a […] The post Book: Ted Conover's Colorado appeared first on Brad Feld....

Well, that was interesting. I get many more private emails in response to blog posts than comments. Yesterday, in response to Reflecting on Ponzi Schemes, I got a few that said anyone under 35 needs a net native currency, and that's crypto. A few others said some versions of all governments are Ponzi schemes. And […] The post I Don't Hate Cry...

At the end of 2022, some people started shouting that Crypto was a Ponzi Scheme following earlier declarations by Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Charlie Munger. Others, especially those in the crypto industry, were saying some version of "Well, FTX Might Looking Like a Ponzi Scheme, But Crypto is Legit and Isn't a Ponzi Scheme." […] The post...

I'm Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the one and only Julia Cameron. She's not making her first or second but third appearance on this podcast. I've never had a guest on my podcast three times, so this is The post Julia Cameron: The Writer's Way appeared first on ...

I read last week that the NYC Department of Education has banned ChatGPT from its networks and devices. I understand that reaction and mentioned the issues that AI/ML create for educators in a post a few weeks ago. I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders and one who works in education […]

Me: Describe the most powerful, potentially disruptive technology to transform the business of healthcare. ChatGPT: Me. What to many may look like a typo, ChatGPT is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies to capture the imaginations of the Technorati. … Continue reading →

When I was in college in the 1980s, David Byrne and the Talking Heads were in regular rotation in my room along with Pink Floyd, except for the one semester where the only thing I listed to was Dark Side of the Moon (ah – the joy of discovering repeat on an early CD player.) […] The post Same As It Ever Was appeared first on Brad Feld.

For those of you older than 40, it sort of felt like 2000. If you are younger than 40, a massive tech bubble just burst. I expect you know that. For the past six months, many VCs have been podcasting, tweeting, publicly writing, … and generally prognosticating about what you should do and what's going […] The post What Just Happened app...

Our trip around our sun is ending again and we are closing out the year. I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020, then made 2021 predictions, then 2022 predictions. Now that I have been doing this for a few years I feel like the pressure is off. I enjoy trying to predict …

I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending and one looking forward to the year ahead. This is the first of these two posts. The second one will run tomorrow. What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital markets […]

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Kerri Walsh-Jennings. She is one of the GOATsgreatest of all timein womens volleyball. This description opens up an existential question: greatest implies the one and only, but in my humble The post Kerri Walsh Je...

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Paul Oyer. He is a professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Labor Economics. Paul obtained his bachelor's in math The post Paul Oyer: Real-World,...

As usual, here are some songs that stuck with me this year. fredwilson Backing It When No One Believed I hope you enjoy it.

Having spent three energizing yet exhausting days in Israel this past week, one struggles to neatly put the experience in a simple elegant context. Like many countries today, there is extraordinary and somewhat confounding political confusion. There are significant anxieties … Continue reading →

The month of December is a strange month for VCs and Founders. 2022 is no different and I have always found the discussions and chatter around it to be extremely confusing. On the one hand there are a number of things happening, deals getting done, M&A, capital being deployed and general fury of activity. On …

For the past few years I have been doing fractional work for companies – mainly as a Fractional COO. More recently this has turned into fractional back office operations for funds, family offices, and GPs. With a specialized service, more time on my hands for my own projects, and getting so much inbound for operators …

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadnt experienced since the late 90s we all began praying to the God of Valuation. It wasnt always like this and frankly it took a lot of joy out of the industry for me personally.What happened? How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with mo...

I have written many times about the Hour Of Code here at AVC. It is the highlight of the annual Computer Science Education Week which is the first week of December, which is this week. Yesterday Marco Argenti, Goldman Sachs' CIO, and I went with NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks to the Hospitality Management High […]

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. Were on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Tyler Shultz. Saying that Tyler is remarkably brave is an understatement. He was the whistleblower on the Theranos debacle that led to the conviction of Elizabeth Holmes. Someone is truly remarkable when The post Tyler Shultz: Tr...

The advances in AI over the last year are mind-boggling. I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders and one who works in education told us that ChatGPT has effectively ended the essay as a way for teachers to assess student progress. It will be easier for a student to prompt ChatGPT […]

One-Bitcoin-a Day soll eine Handelsanwendung sein, die es Hndlern ermglicht, durch den Handel mit Bitcoin zu profitieren. Es wird angenommen, dass sie leistungsstarke Computeralgorithmen verwendet, die in der Lage sind, die Bitcoin-Mrkte auf Handelsmglichkeiten zu analysieren und von den Mglichkeiten … Weiterlesen →

In his recent bankruptcy proceeding filing, John Ray III, the new CEO and Chief Restructuring Officer at FTX, minced no words: I have over 40 years of legal and restructuring experience. I have been the Chief Restructuring Officer or Chief Executive Officer in several of the largest corporate failures in history. I have supervised situations involv...

In 2019, before the pandemic, the U.S. Census Department estimated that 611k people were treated at hospitals every day. In mid-January 2022, at the absolute height of the Omicron surge, there were ~150k daily hospital in-patient admissions recorded due to … Continue reading →

We have a new episode of Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Andrea Lytle Peet was diagnosed with ALS at 33. She quickly went from competing in marathons and triathlons to walking with a cane. LISTEN TO THE EPISODE HERE While 80% The post Andrea Lytle Peet: The Embodiment of Pe...

We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment's NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the premier NFT art "gallery" in the world. I use that term in parentheses because Bright Moments is much more than a gallery but that word is well understood. USV is a member of the Bright Moments DAO. […]