M&A Due Diligence Posts

Are you thinking about selling your company? David Shanberg – who I worked with when I was an investor in PeoplePC and he ran corporate development – has a nice series

December 9, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

My Zero-ith Company

In 1983, when I was a senior in high school, I started my first company.  There were six founders – they are the gang below: John Gruberman, Drew Debelak, Jeff

December 6, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

How To Take Care of Your Introvert

I wrote a post this summer titled CEOs That Are Introverts. While I’m very comfortable in group settings and have no problem in front of a crowd, I’d much prefer

December 4, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Reflections on Mentors

Ben Casnocha is hard at work at his book titled “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley”; which Jossey-Bass (part of John

November 29, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Failing Gracefully

David Cohen has a great post up about the failure of one of his startup – iContact. Even though iContact failed, David and his partners still managed to return 78% of

November 26, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Getting Value From Experimental Technology

David Cohen (who I have done a few angel deals with – including ClickCaster and Solidware) recently spent a couple of weeks building a cool new tool called earFeeder. earFeeder

November 16, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Another Great "What Makes A Great Board" Post

Fred Wilson has a superb post up today titled How To Build A Good Board. If you run a company and have a board, or sit on a board, go read

November 13, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Munching on Your Competitors' Bones

One of my portfolio companies recently put together a short video for a recent company meeting. The video consisted of a series of questions for each board member and a

November 8, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Trust But Verify

As I slowly work my way through State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, the phrase “trust but verify” has appeared at least once. Now that Rumsfeld is no

November 8, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Company Stages – Revisted

A few days ago I wrote about the transition from a small to medium to large business. I had a few people write to me with additional questions, including requests

November 3, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld