The Rule of 40% For a Healthy SaaS Company

There are lots of blogs and anecdotes on (a) how to build a successful SaaS company and (b) what a successful SaaS company looks like. Yesterday’s post by Neeraj Agrawal from Battery

February 3, 2015 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Sunday Morning With the Wayback Machine

I’ve been reading a bunch of history lately. So I was psyched to see a long post titled Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job highlighting some of the amazing

February 1, 2015 · 3 min · Brad Feld

How Does A Small Company Make A Big Company Successful?

tl;dr: As a small company, focus on two things with big companies: “1. What can we, the small company do, to make the big company successful? 2. What can I do,

January 29, 2015 · 8 min · Brad Feld

How To Raise A $150 Million VC Fund

One day in 2009 David Cohen and I were talking. Here’s what I remember the conversation being. David: “I’m seeing so many seed deals from all the mentors and people

January 28, 2015 · 5 min · Brad Feld

That Didn't Need To Take An Hour

Have you ever finished something and thought to yourself, “That didn’t need to take an hour?” In my world, I have an endless stream of requests to do something for

January 27, 2015 · 3 min · Brad Feld

We Will Never Need Another Financing

I hear some version of this one all the time. “We will never need another financing.” “This financing will get us to cash flow breakeven.” “This is our last financing bef

January 25, 2015 · 4 min · Brad Feld

In Santa Fe We Wish We Had The Boulder Problems!

There has been a lot of recent noise in Boulder about growth, challenges, and the impact of the tech community on the city. I stirred the pot a little more

January 22, 2015 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Interviewing Lucy Sanders at Entrepreneurs Unplugged on 1/28/15

Lucy Sanders, the founder/CEO of the National Center for Women & Information Technology is a remarkable person. I’ve worked with Lucy since 2005 and she’s done more advancing the cause

January 22, 2015 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Learning from 2014 Security Hacks

Raj Bhargava (CEO of JumpCloud) and I got into a discussion at dinner the other night about the major security hacks this past year including Sony, eBay, Target, and The Home

January 21, 2015 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies

“We have product/market fit.” “We are searching for product/market fit.” “We are raising this financing to find product/market fit.” “Our customer traction de

January 20, 2015 · 6 min · Brad Feld