Ideal Board Meetings

I had a great board meeting today at Quova and a near perfect board meeting at Rally last week. While it’s a pleasure to be involved in both companies since

January 25, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Developers Matter in Enterprise Sales

Ed Sim from Dawntreader Ventures has a good post on selling software into the enterprise and the difference between a pilot / trial that matters and can turn into revenue

January 8, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Quotations from Chairman David

Amy and I spent the week in Miami with our friends Warren and Ilana Katz. Warren runs a very successful software company called MaK Technologies that builds software simulation tools

January 1, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Running Helps Entrepreneurs Succeed

Ah – two of my favorite topics – running and entrepreneurship. Lucy Sanders – the executive director of The National Center for Women and Information Technology – sent me an [&

December 28, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Family Business

Amy gave me an awesome coffee table book yesterday called Family Business. I devoured it last night after dinner. She told me it was a Christmas present – if all

December 25, 2004 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Inspiring a Team

Charlie Feld’s latest leadership article for CIO Magazine is about How to Inspire Your Team. It’s a quick read that explains the value of trust (table stakes – you’ve got

December 24, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Outlawed Words: SOME and OK

In my first company (Feld Technologies), we wrote customer software for medium sized businesses. This was back in the late 80’s / early 90’s – pre client/server (remember dbase, Para

December 16, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Board of Directors

Jim Lejeal just wrote a good post on his thoughts on what qualities make a good independent director. It’s worth a read. I’ve served on several boards with Jim and

December 16, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Early Stage Marketing and Sales – The "Why" vs. the "What"

I was at a Rally Software board meeting where we spent a chunk of time finalizing and approving the 2005 operating plan. A big part of the discussion – not

December 15, 2004 · 3 min · Brad Feld

How Many Angels is the Right Number

I got the following question via email today: All things being equal and all things being perfect, is it better to have more or less ‘angels’ in the mix? I

December 13, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld