147 Quotes by Brad Feld

While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.

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.

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

While I'd like to be able to simply do all of my financings with a handshake or, possibly, on a napkin written in crayon, I also wish I had a herd of unicorns surrounded by rainbows, a balanced U.S. government budget, and agreement on how to address the debt ceiling issue.

Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.

Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.

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

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

It's time to focus on what I care about and not let the noise take over my brain.