What's The Best Corporate Structure For An Early Stage Company?

I got the following question from a reader a week ago. A project I’m involved with is aiming to go from a team of “4 founders with a great idea

February 4, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Random Meetings

Earlier this week I was enjoying myself at an Oxlo board meeting (the food was “ok” – at least there was food) and I realized that a number of people

January 21, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

An Entrepreneur on Series A Financings

Earlier this week I wrote that Tim Wolters – CTO of Collective Intellect had starting posting on terms associated with VC financings. Yesterday – Niel Robertson – CTO of Newmer

January 21, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Board Meeting Food

I’ve been to zillions of board meetings (and lunch meetings) over the past decade. The food at 98% of them is shit. We had a board meeting at FeedBurner today.

January 20, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Do Restarts Have A Negative Overhang?

Following is a question that I got from a reader of this blog on Friday. “I have wondered about the dynamics of a restart company and how it affects employees, options and

January 16, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Trough of Disillusionment

Seth Levine has a great post up about the dynamics of exit value in a startup. If you wonder why there are so many relatively quick deals for startups under

January 12, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: You Need To Be A Little Crazy

I read You Need to Be a Little Crazy : The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business over the holiday break. Barry Moltz’s marketing and PR Director Sarah Moore sent me

January 5, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Sputnik vs. Atlas Shrugged

I spent a delightful few days in Aspen with Amy, my uncle Charlie, and his wife Cindy. My first computer experience was at a Frito-Lay office in Dallas when I

December 26, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

VentureWeek Podcast – 2005 Year in Review

Eric Olson has another VentureWeek podcast up – this time with me, Dave Hornik of August Capital, and Mike Arrington of TechCrunch. We discuss the important things of 2005, at

December 16, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

New Hires, New Customers, New Products

Next week is Syndicate. As a result, you are going to see a bunch of bullshit press releases for a wide variety of companies announcing nothing (I’ve already seen a

December 8, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld