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St. Louis is a good example of a vibrant city. Having stayed in a hotel in 2011 overlooking Cardinals stadium when they won the World Series, their fans definitely show up loud and proud. - Brad Feld

Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people on the team, especially in senior roles, who can help build out areas of the company they have experience in. - Brad Feld

Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time. - Brad Feld

I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise. - Brad Feld

I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is currently being explored. - Brad Feld

'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce. - Brad Feld

Q1 is the easiest quarter to make. If you miss your Q1, regardless of the type of revenue you have, you aren't going to make your revenue plan for the year because your budget process isn't accurate. - Brad Feld

For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change. - Brad Feld

I have several close friends who are insomniacs. Over the years, I've heard their stories about being up in the middle of the night, completely awake. I see them yawn at 11 A.M. and know that, regardless of what they are doing, they'd probably rather be in bed sleeping. I've always had sympathy for them, but I've never really understood it. - Brad Feld

I watched my parents act as completely equal partners in their relationship, and as a son to a woman I respect immensely, I never thought of gender inequality as a child. - Brad Feld

While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives. - Brad Feld

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy. - Brad Feld

Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks. - Brad Feld

When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful. - Brad Feld

Anyone who knows me knows I'm a strong advocate for diversity across all dimensions. - Brad Feld

In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to. - Brad Feld

#Discrimination

I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world. - Brad Feld

#Change The World

Repeat after me: 'There is a very limited amount of easy money.' - Brad Feld

As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google? - Brad Feld

My initial desire to blog came from something that's always been my approach to investing - I'm a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. - Brad Feld

In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy. - Brad Feld

I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better. - Brad Feld

I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes. - Brad Feld

My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top. - Brad Feld

While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows. - Brad Feld

While we should certainly be investing in our own STEM education, we should take advantage of the thousands of international students who come here to study and are ready to fill these gaps immediately upon graduation. - Brad Feld

If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now. - Brad Feld

December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, was generally exhausted at the end of the year, and just wanted to hide. I described myself as a 'cranky Jewish kid who felt left out by Christmas.' - Brad Feld

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