Killing a Project

Failure can be “positive” – John Funk at Evergreen IP is about to start writing about a project he and his partners just killed. Understanding why things don’t work &ndas

October 29, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Preparing for a Marathon

I have several friends who are running in the upcoming NY Marathon on 11/5. I sent one of them – who I just found out had hurt himself and won’t

October 25, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Managing Emotions Under Pressure

I got the following note the other day from a friend: After reading your latest post on Board Room Rules, I started thinking about the pressures that entrepreneurs experience starting,

October 25, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

What's Your Deal Size?

Fred Wilson has a great, descriptive post on how he thinks about deal size in the context of his fund (Union Square Ventures.) The “Brad” in the post is Fred’s

October 25, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Sample Board Meeting Minutes

I go to a lot of board meetings. As a result, I’ve reviewed a lot of board meeting minutes. In general, the philosophy among most VC-backed companies – promulgated by

October 24, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld

PHP vs. Ruby

Ever since I started teaching my 15 year old neighbor Ruby (and learning it simultaneously), I keep running into people who ask “why don’t you just learn / teach PHP?” &nbs

October 24, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

24 Is Almost Here

The Season 6 Trailer is up. Jack is “almost” back.

October 24, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Periodic Spiral

As I was reading NY Times Science section today in the bathroom (the only place I bother reading physical newspapers and magazines anymore) I came across a superb explanation of

October 24, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Is It Angel Investing or For-Profit Philanthropy?

On Friday, I did a podcast with David Cohen and Kimbal Musk on angel investing. David and I have done a few angel investments together (Solidware Technologies and ClickCaster), I’ve

October 23, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Blogs and Wall Street

CNET has an article titled Putting blogs to work for Wall Street about one of my investments – Collective Intellect. I imagine Don Springer – Collective Intellect’s CEO –

October 23, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld