Brad Feld is coming to town and there are a number of folks organizing an entrepreneur party.  If you don’t know of Brad, he writes the popular blog Feld Thoughts (www.feld.com) and is a managing director at Foundry Group (www.foundrygroup.com).  He’s been an investor in a number of Seattle-based companies over the years including AdReady, Smith & Tinker, Shelfari, and Judy’s Book, and is currently on the board of Impinj.  Brad’s is also a co-founder of TechStars (www.techstars.org), a great startup program based in Boulder that has helped create a number of interesting companies, including SocialThing (acquired by AOL), Intense Debate (acquired by Automattic/WordPress), and Brightkite.

Brad’s going to spend the evening talking about his views on entrepreneurship, especially around early stage companies in today’s environment.  He’ll give us a detailed view of TechStars and why it’s been working, along with an explanation about how he thinks about early stage VC investing.  The evening with be heavily Q&A oriented – Brad’s open to any questions about anything.

Register for Beers with Brad Feld now! I just registered so I’ll see you there! Note there is a $5 fee, but it will be donated to Seattle-based Vittana (www.vittana.org), an early-stage non-profit building the next step in microfinance — education microfinance.

Jordan Mitchell, the author of this post, blogs regularly and is the CEO/Founder of Others Online (his 4th Internet startup), which provides ad networks with behavioral profiling and targeting solutions.