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November 2015A few months ago an article about Y Combinator said that early on it had been a "one-man show." It's sadly common to...

A Shift – Feld Thoughts

I’m 50% of the way through being out of hibernation and am very looking forward to turning back into a pumpkin at midnight on...

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How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub

April 2016(This is a talk I gave at an event called Opt412 in Pittsburgh. Much of it will apply to other towns. But not...

Notes from a product design vibe coding hackathon

In May 2025, the product design team at Intercom came together for a hackathon in our London office. Folks flew in from as far afield...

We reverse-engineered the GitHub Actions cache so you don’t have to

This article walks you through how to use Depot's API within your own code to set up projects and run your Docker builds as...

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Lead, lead again, with Sheryl Sandberg

REID HOFFMAN: When technologies become ubiquitous and essential, they also generate opposition. Take PowerPoint, a product I use almost every day. There’s a...

Building trust through responsible AI: Intercom achieves ISO/IEC 42001 certification

As AI becomes more embedded in our everyday lives, it’s more important than ever that the tools we use are trustworthy, secure, and compliant...

This Week In Vibe Coding Learning

Question: If you had limited experience with graphic design software but wanted to do basic stuff for web design, what software would you use?...

Barbara Corcoran’s Beloved NYC Penthouse Is for Sale

"Shark Tank" star Barbara Corcoran, 76, first got a glimpse of her dream home in 1992.She was running...

The Four Quadrants of Conformism

July 2020One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggressiveness of their conformism. Imagine a Cartesian coordinate system whose horizontal...

Introducing MCP: A new way to connect Fin and your customer data to your business tools

Delivering great AI customer service depends on more than just sophisticated AI models – it relies on real-time data and access to business systems...

c1570/Connomore64: Realtime cycle exact emulation of the C64 using multiple microcontrollers in parallel.

https://github.com/c1570/Connomore64 Realtime cycle exact emulation of the Commodore 64 using multiple microcontrollers in parallel. This is a proof of concept and not end user ready. July 2024...

Startup Community Trailblazer Brad Feld to Release New Book at GEC 2025

“Startup Community Trailblazer” is a fancy title for me, but I’ll take it. I’ve decided to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2025 in Indianapolis to launch Give...

Americans Have a Blind Spot When It Comes to Small Business

Most people feel personally and emotionally connected to the small businesses in their communities, but they underestimate how...

Modeling a Wealth Tax

August 2020Some politicians are proposing to introduce wealth taxes in addition to income and capital gains taxes. Let's try modeling the effects of various levels of...

Innovation is managed chaos, with Eric Schmidt

ERIC SCHMIDT: My first office at Google was an 8-by-12 office, just enough room for me and my desk and my little chair....

How Tipping Came to America

When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. It’s the expectation and an essential part of how restaurant workers earn a...