Liquidation Preferences

I received a number of comments, private emails, and a few links to my post on Venture Capital Deal Algebra. The consistent theme was “tell me more about how VC

July 15, 2004 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Venture Capital Deal Algebra

Fred Wilson wrote a useful post on valuation today. It reminded me of a document I had Dave Jilk write when he was doing some work for me. I decided

July 7, 2004 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Torturous World of Powerpoint

I’ve looked at thousands (tens of thousands?) presentations pitching new businesses since the mid 1990’s. The vast majority of them suck. Unfortunately, it’s not Powerpoint’s f

June 22, 2004 · 4 min · Brad Feld

To Tell The Truth

Fred Wilson and I are cross posting each other today (we must miss each other) – he had a good post this morning on how turn downs work in venture

June 16, 2004 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Are VCs with operating experience more successful?

Last week I had a meeting with a prospective limited partner (“Mr. X”) who is long time investor in venture capital funds. He’s extremely experienced, well respected, and has a

June 13, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Technical advisory board meeting

I’m sitting in a technical advisory board meeting for one of my companies (Rally Software Development). I’m moblonging from my Danger – pretty cool (at least to me). We’re havi

May 14, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld