When You’re Ready To Get Past Clichés Like “Never Give Up,” Listen To This – with Brad Feld

Brad Feld, Failure, Funding, Mental Game

Even though my site’s analytics tells me that you don’t like hearing stories of failures (I get more links from inspiring, motivational stories), I started this interview by asking Brad Feld about it because I think failure is part of the process and learning to deal with setbacks is important.

Listen around minute 9 of this interview and you’ll understand why I think it’s so important. You’ll hear how one entrepreneur Brad invested in could have been a salve to the “never give up” cliché, but instead decided to build a successful business.

And, since Brad is one of the most admired tech startup investors (Zynga, Return Path, Service Metrics, etc), we spent a lot of time talking about what it takes to build a hit company.

Brad Feld

Brad Feld is a managing director at Foundry Group. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, invests in software and Internet companies around the US, runs marathons and reads a lot.

 

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