Fred Wilson on "The VC's Customer"

Fred Wilson has an awesome blog on The VC’s Customer. The first few sentences summarize the post. Many of the people I know in the venture capital business think their

November 12, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Colorado Venture Capital Statistics – Misleading Again

Well – it’s about 20 days after the end of the quarter and the Ernst & Young / Venture One survey of venture capital funding is out and the Denver Post

October 24, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Working for Microsoft

As part of the VC Advisory Board for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Technology group, I like to say that I work for Microsoft three days a year (this is how often

October 9, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Ode to A Short Attention Span

When I was a child, I had a fleeting glimpse of my future. My mother used to tell me to “pay attention” as my brain wandered off to something else. Little

October 3, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Teaser For Pascal Levensohn's Upcoming White Paper on Replacing a CEO

Pascal Levensohn just put up a teaser post about his upcoming white paper addressing venture governance and the CEO succession challenge. I’ve referred to this paper in the last two

September 8, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Talking To Fellow Directors About Replacing A CEO

I recently posted about the signs that a board should consider replacing the CEO. My partner Heidi Roizen came up with these as her answer to a question posed by

September 7, 2005 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Signs That A Board Should Consider Replacing The CEO

Several months ago, I posted about Pascal Levensohn's great white paper titled "After the Term Sheet: How Venture Boards Influence the Success or Failure of Technology Companies." Th

September 5, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

VC's Pitching To VC's at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference

Larry Gregory has put together an interesting VC panel for the upcoming Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles in mid-September. Rather than the typical VC panel – where we get to

August 25, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Philandering Entrepreneurs or Sour Grapes

In the “best entrepreneur gossip blog post” of the day category, Alan Meckler and the guys from LightReading.com give a public example of the issues in the intellectual exchange that

August 24, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Meeting The Numbers

Fred Wilson has a great weekly series called VC Cliche of the Week – this week’s post is on meeting the numbers. It’s worth a slow and thoughtful read. I

August 4, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld