Hire a VP Finance Sooner Rather Than Later

The post is aimed at CEOs of startups who have at least 15 employees. If you don’t have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your

July 27, 2016 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Dedupe Your Processes

The phrase “dedupe your processes” was created at a board meeting I was at last week. If you know our portfolio, you probably can figure out which board meeting it was based

July 25, 2016 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Don't Waste A Crisis

This cliche, which has uncertain attribution (Winston Churchill, Rahm Emmanuel, M. F. Weiner) is a priceless line that gets tossed out periodically, especially in the middle of a crisis. Over the year

June 21, 2016 · 3 min · Brad Feld

A Scaling Magic Trick

By definition, as a company scales rapidly, it adds people quickly. There are many things about this that are difficult, but a vexing one has to do with the leadership team.

June 16, 2016 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Budget: First Half, Second Half

If you are the CEO of a VC or angel backed company, will need to raise more money in the future, are doing more than $100,000 of revenue a month,

June 7, 2016 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Work Hard. Be Kind.

For your Sunday video watching, I encourage you to spend ten minutes of your life and watch Chris Moody‘s Commencement Address to the Auburn 2016 graduates. His message is simple:

May 14, 2016 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Your Wall Is Dingy

As I procrastinate from going for a run this morning, I started writing a post titled The Pro-Rata Gap Myth. After two paragraphs, I got tired of writing it and

May 5, 2016 · 4 min · Brad Feld

A User Manual To Working With Me

Jon Hallett, a prolific angel investor and successful entrepreneur who I’ve gotten to know over the past few years, dropped a major knowledge bomb on me yesterday afternoon when he

April 13, 2016 · 2 min · Brad Feld

How To Beat Michael Jordan At Sports

I had a great interaction with a friend several months ago. The question he asked was: “How do you beat Michael Jordan at sports?” I thought about it for a second.

April 12, 2016 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Building Long Term Companies

I was catching up on a bunch of reading on the web from last week and came across a post by Lars Dalgaard titled Thoughts on Building Weatherproof Companies. I don’t know Lars, but

March 27, 2016 · 4 min · Brad Feld