Managing Emotions Under Pressure

I got the following note the other day from a friend: After reading your latest post on Board Room Rules, I started thinking about the pressures that entrepreneurs experience starting,

October 25, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Meetings

Scott Converse (CEO of ClickCaster) has post summarizing his first board meeting. Todd Vernon (CEO of Lijit) does also (ok – his second board meeting.) Finally – Jeff Bussgang

October 16, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

How Not To Re-Engage With Your Users

I got the following email from AdBrite yesterday. I had AdBrite adds on my blog for a while and had minimal revenue, so I took them off. I hadn’t thought

October 11, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Panda Mating – More on the The Demo

I got a great email from a reader in Europe in response to my The Demo post that said “Here in Europe we VCs refer to the practice of introducing

October 5, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Demo

Several weeks ago, I brokered a meeting between two of my portfolio companies. One of them is relatively mature, has a good sized customer base, and a great set of

October 4, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

To Listen or Not To Listen

Yesterday, I was on a conference call with an entrepreneur that I’ve backed in the past. He wanted to walk me through the idea for a new business that he

October 4, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Do Your Investors Use Your Product?

Brad Spirrison has a nice article in the Chicago Sun-Times titled Feedburner’s investors have its technology at their fingertips. Among other things, he highlights that three of the FeedBu

September 25, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

More on 80-19-1

I woke up to three good posts on the 80–19–1 Rule. Digg that Fat Belly: Robert Young talks about the “Fat Belly” of the Long Tail. The three C’s: Jason Calacanis

September 6, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The 80-19-1 Rule

I expect that many of you are familiar with the Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule.) If you aren’t, the simple definition is that for many phenomena 80%

August 31, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld

BarCamp Denver

BarCamp Denver starts tonight and goes all day tomorrow. The attendees list has grown nicely, including some of my friends such as Derek Scruggs (Enthusiast Group), Kevin Cawley (NewGator), Scot

August 25, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld