QUESTION:

I’m starting up a company in Colorado.  It’s my first time, so I’m pretty ignorant.  Is there anyone here who’s connected to a lot of VC?

ANSWER:

Brad Feld is an investor and well connected to the VC community.  He also has a nice blog for entrepreneurs, especially if you live in Colorado.

Go see FeldThoughts

Brad Feld covers a lot of the basic issues that founders face.  He has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital.

Brad currently serves on the board of directors of Gist, Gnip, Oblong, Standing Cloud, and Zynga for Foundry Group. Previously, Brad served as chief technology officer of AmeriData Technologies. AmeriData acquired Feld Technologies, a firm he founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software applications. Brad had grown Feld Technologies into one of Boston’s leading software consulting firms prior to the acquisition. He also directed the diversification into software consulting at AmeriData, a $1.5 billion publicly-traded company which was acquired by GE Capital in 1995.