How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC

Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors.  While I agree that many VCs are crummy seed investors,

August 2, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Skadden Partner Completes 409A Handbook

This just makes me want to crawl under my desk and cry for a while.  Can you imagine how much it would hurt if you threw that at a lawyer

July 5, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Take the Time to Acknowledge Management's Performance

I’ve been in several board meetings over the past month where the companies are having a killer Q2.  A year ago everyone was still pretty rattled from the financial crisis

June 30, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Metaphor: VC as a Produce Supplier

I was in a meeting with Rich Miner from Google Ventures on Friday with some entrepreneurs we are working with on a potential investment. While the team isn’t a rookie

June 6, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

You Don’t Mean Average, You Mean Median

Every quarter, without fail, a bunch of articles appear talking about the venture capital industries investment pace as a result of the PWC MoneyTree report.  I used to get calls

January 2, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld

The Downsides of Large Syndicates

There were some great comments on my post from Sunday titled Being Syndication Agnostic.  One of them was from Kevin Vogelsang – he asked the following question: What are the

December 22, 2009 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Being Syndication Agnostic

Bijan Sabet started it with a great post titled We Gotta Do A Deal Together and Fred Wilson followed with an equally great post titled Trading Deals, A Lost Art?

December 20, 2009 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Maniacal Crazy People

Three of my VC friends (Santo Politi, Mark Suster, and Kate Mitchell) were on Fox Business’ Capitalist Ad”Ventures” series.  The underlying theme of this segment was the characteristics of entrep

October 31, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

It’s Not My Company

VCs say a lot of stupid things.  I’m guilty of it plenty and whenever someone calls me on it I try to acknowledge and change.  One that I try really

October 23, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Some Complexities of Venture Capital Seed Investing

Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners, has an outstanding post up this morning titled VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding. Mark started blogging recently and

October 18, 2009 · 5 min · Brad Feld