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

Powerful Essay From Kevin Tillman

Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002 and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who

October 21, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Google Destroys Their Numbers

Once again, Google announced financials that are incredible. If I’m on the exec team at Yahoo or Microsoft, I’m having a drink tonight wondering what I’m doing wrong and what [

October 19, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

I Love My Mother

I received the following postcard from my mom today. Love ya mom.

October 19, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld