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Interview with Brad Feld, Managing Director at Foundry Group and Mobius Venture Capital

April 13th, 2007 Leave a comment Go to comments

Brad Feld is a Managing Director at Foundry Group and Mobius Venture Capital. Prior to Mobius, Brad founded Feld Technologies, which was sold to AmeriData Technologies in 1993, where he became Chief Technology Officer. Brad currently serves on the boards of a number of private companies, including ClickCaster, ePartners, FeedBurner, Gold Systems, Judy’s Book, Lijit, Me.dium, NewsGator, Rally Software, and StillSecure. In addition, he is on the board of The National Center for Women & Information Technology, The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, and The Colorado Conservation Trust. Brad has previously been a member of the board of directors of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and founded the Boston and Colorado chapters. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

What lessons learned can you impart on young entrepreneurs that you gained from your first venture, Feld Technologies?

“Just go for it.” When my partner and I started Feld Technologies, we funded it with $10. Not $10,000. $10. We didn’t know any better and just got going.

TechStars is a very interesting program that you are running, what was the inspiration behind it? Have you found that the applicants have skewed a bit on the younger side age wise?

Here’s a good overview of how TechStars came together: http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/002136.html. The basic inspiration behind it was David Cohen’s desire to work with a group of investors and successful entrepreneurs to try to help young entrepreneurs create some companies. The applications did skew toward younger entrepreneurs, but we did have a wide range of ages in the applicant pool.

For young entrepreneurs, what would be your advice on approaching VCs for funding?

Find an experienced entrepreneur who has raised VC money before and get him involved as an angel / mentor.

What is the youngest company (founder’s age wise) that you have funded?

Early 20’s. I’ve funded a number of companies with entrepreneurs still in college.

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