Are You Having Trouble Raising Venture Capital?

Matt McCall – my fellow board member / investor at FeedBurner – has a helpful post up titled Bootcamp: Show Me the Money. Matt does a nice job of describing

August 4, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Peter Rip on Business Models

Peter Rip of Leapfrog Ventures has a what I think should become a classic entrepreneur post on business models. He gives some context about the term (and why it’s often annoying,

July 27, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

An Example of Real Class

I talk and email with a lot of “random” people. I’ve blogged about my random meeting policy in the past – whenever I reflect on it I realize that it has served

July 25, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Cash Flow (Or Lack Thereof) Can Kill You Fast

Will Herman has (yet another) great post up about failure in his first startup. His company – DataWare Logic – looked like it was on a path to success –

July 22, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Hiring Too Early

I was pondering the early days of Feld Technologies tonight, thinking about what mistakes we made (and boy did we make a lot of mistakes.) I wound the clock all

July 20, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Lack of Focus

As the stock market continues to flounder around (mostly the wrong direction) and some people in the middle east continue to try to destroy each other, I woke up this

July 18, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Sales Forecasting – The Waterfall

Josh Kopelman has a great post up about Sales Forecasting, along with a sample model of a “Waterfall Forecast.”

July 11, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Getting Rid of the Best People

My friend Will Herman is on a blogging tear these days. Today, he wrote a long, excellent post titled “When To Get Rid of the ‘Best’ People That Work For

July 9, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Work Life Balance Interview

I’ve given a number of interviews on Work Life balance since the post I wrote about it a year ago. Eric Bergman interviewed me the other day – it’s a

July 7, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Do I Practice What I Preach?

At dinner I was pondering the answer I gave on the post How An Entrepreneur Can Protect Himself Post-Funding. Something was bothering me about it and I thought to myself “do

July 4, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld