Brad Feld, Dave McClure and others weighed in on the highly controversial post.
Brad Feld, co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, weighed in during a recent interview with Benzinga.
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Early adopters are tech-types like TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington or venture capitalist Brad Feld (on the board of directors for Zynga).
Entrepreneur supporter Brad Feld talks about the importance of these events in his new book, Startup Communities, the first of a series he calls the Startup Revolution.
Ask Paul Graham, Brad Feld or Ben Horowitz.
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"The nerds feel like they have a real community, " said Brad Feld, a managing director at the Colorado venture capital firm Foundry Group who often visits New York to hunt for deals.
Well known startup investor and VC Brad Feld also supports this view with what he calls his Boulder Thesis (amazing 3-minute video by the Kauffman Foundation with narration by Brad here).
If you want to see the example of how someone rationalizes the use of these tools, I highly recommend following Brad Feld, the well-known and successful Managing Director of the Foundry Group.
Thus, during the past decade, the more common route to seed and Series A investing has been an entrepreneurial career, personified by such investors as: Dave McClure, Chris Dixon, Brad Feld and Mark Suster.
Unlike Boulder however, which rose to prominence due to the efforts of VCs like Brad Feld trying to catalyze a startup scene, Hsieh is trying to use the sheer size of Zappos to make a difference.
On this second point, he mentions several popular thinkers in the realm of entrepreneurship, such as Eric Ries, Steve Blank, Clayton Christensen, and Brad Feld, and recommends two novels that touch on entrepreneurship and business, American Pastoral and The White Tiger.
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