I'm delighted to have Brad Feld guest blogging for my blogging series Me, My Pet, and I.
I've been reading Brad's blog now for well over 2 years and find his perspective on VC investing, angel investing, running marathons, and being happily married a very interesting combination. Whenever I have questions about investing or running a board or just keeping my feet on the ground, Brad's blog is usually the first place I go.
Here's his post.
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When I was a kid, I tolerated the dogs we had. As a teenager, we had a large airdale named Addison that I always found annoying. In retrospect, I think it was channeling my mom (it was her dog after all) and I was having a normal teenage reaction to it.
After my wife Amy and I moved to Boulder 12 years ago, we decided to get a dog. Our neighbor at the time had two beautiful golden retrievers so we decided to get one from his breeder. 
Our first dog – Denali – was a life changer. He was a kind, fun, playful, smart dog that we immediately fell in love with. We grew with him, and by the time his was six, we decided to get a second golden to keep him company. This resulted in Kenai, who also was extremely smart and playful, but a little more mischievous than Denali.
Amy and I don’t have kids so our dogs are a central part of our life. We were out of town last year at Christmas when Denali suddenly got sick. 24 hours later he was in surgery – it turned out that he had a large liver tumor. We decided not to wake him up and were devastated. We knew that his last memories were happy prior to the surgery, so that gave us some peace, but it was incredibly difficult to lose our first dog.
A few months later we started talking about getting a new puppy. Three weeks ago we got Brooks. He’s amazingly cute, very smart, and much more stubborn than either Denali or Kenai. Kenai is happy to have a new friend and we are being kept busy by the new fluffball in our life.
Dogs rock.
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I am a managing director at Foundry Group and Mobius Venture Capital. I live in Boulder, Colorado, Keystone, Colorado and Homer, Alaska.
Following is my standard bio:
Brad Feld is a Managing Director at Foundry Group and Mobius Venture Capital. Prior to Mobius, Brad founded Feld Technologies, which was sold to AmeriData Technologies in 1993, where he became Chief Technology Officer.
Brad currently serves on the boards of a number of private companies, including ePartners, Gold Systems, Judy's Book, NewsGator, Rally Software, and StillSecure. In addition, he is on the board of The National Center for Women & Information Technology, The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, and The Colorado Conservation Trust.
Brad has previously been a member of the board of directors of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and founded the Boston and Colorado chapters. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I love to read, am an avid marathoner, believe computers are my friend, am happily married to an amazing person, have one gigantic golden retriever named Kenai, (and now Brooks) and try to enjoy myself every day as I subscribe to the “you only get one chance” view of life.
