Stupid Things I Wish I Had Never Said – The Bowling Quote

Ross Wehner – a new writer for the Denver Post – had a nice article in the paper this weekend titled Colorado high-tech industry shows some signs of revival. There’s

September 27, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Coffee and Books

I have a close friend – Jenny Lawton – who is a long time, extremely talented, and irrepressible entrepreneur. For a decade she ran a high-end network integration company that

September 10, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Payroll – Bi-weekly vs. Semi-monthly

I was on a board call for a company today that pays their employees bi-weekly (every two weeks). At some point in time there was a rationale for this since

August 26, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Fantasy vs. Reality

Fred wrote two stories on the cliche “if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.” I saw it right after I responded to a few comments on

August 25, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Bootstrapping Top 10 List

Last week, I was asked to write up my “Top 10 bootstrapping actions” for a book on bootstrapping that should be coming out later this year. Bootstrapping must be in

August 14, 2004 · 9 min · Brad Feld

Financial Metrics – The DOC Report

Shortly after I sold my first company, I got a call from Len Fassler – my new boss (the co-chairman of the company) – who asked, “Can you start sending

August 10, 2004 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Financial Fitness for Entrepreneurs

I thought I’d give you a break from the DNC coverage in the blogosphere (and everywhere else). I wrote the following article on “financial fitness for entrepreneurs” last year for [&

July 26, 2004 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Boards That Are Not Bored

I wrote the following article for The Kauffman Foundation’s Entreworld web site some time in the late 1990’s. Someone reminded me of it the other day and I looked it

July 17, 2004 · 7 min · Brad Feld

Visicalc

I was in the middle of responding to an email and I used Visicalc as an example to make a point (remember Visicalc?). I couldn’t remember how to spell Bob

July 13, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

You Drop It Off. We Sell It On eBay

Every now and then, a VC runs across an entrepreneur that has enormous vision, the mental agility to tune his idea to the market reality, and the chutzpah to pull

June 22, 2004 · 3 min · Brad Feld