{"id":2053,"date":"2011-01-12T14:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T21:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:28:00","slug":"thanks-brad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Brad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bfeld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bfeld.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Feld @ UW!\" width=\"342\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bfeld.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bfeld-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huge thank you to <a href=\"http:\/\/feld.com\">Brad Feld<\/a> for accepting my invitation to come talk to UW. In spite of the snow, which ridiculously shuts the city down, approximately 80 people from MBAs, biotech PhD candidates, computer science graduate students, VCs, entrepreneurs and the local startups <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impinj.com\/\">Impinj<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdoor.com\/\">BigDoor<\/a> made their way to <a href=\"ww.foster.washington.edu\/about\/Pages\/paccarhall.aspx\">Paccar Hall at University of Washington<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p>Brad kept the audience interested with a wide range of topics from marathon running as an analogy for business and why we will all have embedded electronics in 20 years. Questions ranged from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techstars.org\/\">TechStars<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startupvisa.com\/\">startup visa<\/a> and intellectual property and how to get more connected to entrepreneurial communities. Brad blogged about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feld.com\/wp\/archives\/2011\/01\/snow-in-seattle.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His book Do More Faster is a must read. If for anything, you learn why Brad wants to grow up to be just like the <a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.wikia.com\/wiki\/Yoda\">Jedi Master Yoda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Do-More-Faster-TechStars-Accelerate-dp-1119583284\/dp\/1119583284\/\">Do More Faster, Second Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=12sidedcom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0470929839\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge thank you to Brad Feld for accepting my invitation to come talk to UW. In spite of the snow, which ridiculously shuts the city down, approximately 80 people from MBAs, biotech PhD candidates, computer science graduate students, VCs, entrepreneurs and the local startups Impinj, BigDoor made their way to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[44,61,167,365],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rsvc","tag-bigdoor","tag-brad-feld","tag-impinj","tag-uw"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}