Tag Archives: Brad Feld

October 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Mentoring TechStars Cloud, and an Invitation to Apply

By Ben Kepes

A month or so ago I wrote a post laying out the different roles I fill across the various organizations I help – in part this was in reaction to some concerns expressed by colleagues about my using the moniker “analyst”. Partly though it was to place a stake in

Tagged Brad Feld, cloud computing, foundry group, San Antonio, Startup company, techstar, TechStars Cloud, Texas |

August 26, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Focus, Focus, Focus

By Ben Kepes

First published on the Rackspace blog. I’ve been reading a copy of Do More Faster recently. Do More Faster is a kind of an entrepreneurs guide book written by two well known authors; Brad Feld, founder and investor of the Foundry and co-founder of the TechStars startup accelerator and David Cohen, co-founder and CEO of TechStars.

Tagged Adam Smith, Brad Feld, Business, cloudcomputing, CloudU, Foundry, TechStars |

November 1, 2010 Posted in Business 9 Comments

Work/Life Balance Doesn’t Happen Once a Quarter

By Ben Kepes

Brad Feld, Partner at VC firm The Foundry and long time supporter of Eric Norlin’s events Glue and defrag, recently presented to TEDxBoulder about his personal strategy of taking a once-a-quarter “week off the grid”. Full video below for those with a spare 8 minutes or so. The upshot is

Tagged Brad Feld, Defrag, Glue, Work–life balance |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.