The Toll of Stress on Startup Teams and Its Link to Founder Well-being

Startup Snapshot, a think tank uncovering the unspoken realities of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, has released its latest report, The Untold Toll (Part 2): Navigating Stress, Wellbeing, and Burnout i

December 10, 2025 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Destigmatizing Mental Health in Entrepreneurship

I’m currently at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2025 in Indianapolis. Yesterday, at the end of the day, I spent several hours at High Alpha hanging out with my friends and

June 3, 2025 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Are You Ok?

After I wrote my post on Unhibernating, my long-time, empathetic friend Christopher Schroeder, whom I originally met through Ben Casnocha (that story is discussed in Give First: The Power of

April 23, 2025 · 5 min · Brad Feld

The Impact of Stress on the Well-being of Startup Founders and CEOs

Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, recently released its latest report, The Untold Toll: The Impact of stress on the well-being of startup founders and CEOs.

May 8, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Pottery and Mental Health for Entrepreneurs in Boulder

After my post about the Founder Mental Health Pledge, I received a note from Kari Palazzari, the Executive Director of Studio Arts Boulder, a local nonprofit that manages a community

April 20, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Founder Mental Health Pledge

Since the middle of last week, there has been extreme stress on founders, startup leaders, and the extended startup community. This stress accelerated on Friday when the FDIC shut down

March 14, 2023 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Talking About Entrepreneurship and Mental Health With David Cohen

David Cohen and I have co-hosted the Give First podcast for 71 episodes. I think our host ratio is 80/20 David/Brad, and he’s covered everything in 2021 because I was

September 8, 2022 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Run With Me To Help Prevent Youth Suicide

It’s time for the 2nd annual Emerge Virtual 5k Run produced by Rise Against Suicide (formerly Second Wind Fund of Boulder County). It’ll be from 8:00 am to Midnight MT

April 26, 2021 · 2 min · Brad Feld

False Reassurance

The Covid crisis has generated an extraordinary amount of what I like to call “false reassurance.” Consider how many times you heard something general like the following some time in

January 27, 2021 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Founders Mental Health in the Time of Covid

Mental health has been an issue among tech entrepreneurs for a long time, but has been exacerbated by the stresses of the Covid crisis. On March 31, I wrote a post

September 3, 2020 · 3 min · Brad Feld