Do More Faster Top 12 Tips At RailsConf 2012

If you are a developer, I encourage you to carve out an hour and watch TechStars CEO David Cohen’s presentation at RailsConf 2012 (30 minute presentation and outstanding 30 minutes

May 20, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Never Give Up, Never Surrender

Today’s post is a guest post from my friend Nicholas Napp. We first met five years ago and while I’ve never invested in anything he’s done, I’ve tried to be

May 20, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Monthly Financials, Quarterly Board Meetings, Continuous Communications

I’ve been writing about boards of directors some lately – both changing my behavior as well as thinking out loud as I explore reinventing how boards work for the book

May 18, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Learning A City By Running Around In It

This morning I had a gritty, sweating, damp, dirty run down Bowery through Chinatown and back. It was a short run – only 30 minutes and my coach’s note for

May 15, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Should Your Board Members Be On The all@company.com Email List?

tl;dr – Yes. I’m on the all@company.com list for a number of the companies I’m on the board of. CEOs and entrepreneurs who practice TAGFEE welcome this. I haven’t universally a

May 14, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Should VC Board Observers Rights Exist?

Over the past year, I’ve been systematically trying to change the way the board meetings work for the companies that I’m on the boards of. I’ve done a bunch of

May 12, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Guidelines For Interviewing At A Startup

My long time friend Chris Moody, president and COO of Gnip, has offered to write some guest posts on management – we’ll call the series Moody on Management. In addition

May 11, 2012 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Random Acts of Kindness – Marathon Fundraising

“When you support a family member in need, you’re doing the right thing. The community you are part of is counting on you, and fulfilling your obligati”

May 9, 2012 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Too Many Seed Investment Choices

Yesterday I sent emails out passing on participating in two seed rounds for companies I really like. They had lots of investors trying to invest and each company was competitive

May 8, 2012 · 5 min · Brad Feld

VC Rights: Up, Down, And Know What The Fuck Is Going On

At the HBS VC Alumni event I was at last week (no – I didn’t go to HBS – I was a panelist) I heard a great line from a

May 7, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld