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

Book: The Founder's Dilemmas

The Founder’s Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman is another book that belongs on every entrepreneur’s bookshelf. It’s excellent. I met Noam for the first time last week when I was at

May 6, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Why I Write Books

Jason and I got an email this morning that said the following: Hi Jason and Brad, Just wanted to thank you for writing the book ‘Venture Deals’. The advice in

May 5, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Recruiting Software Developers By Showing Up With Pizza

Once again we are in a zone where hiring software developers is incredibly challenging. The market is fully employed and while there is some movement between companies, great developers tend

May 3, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld