How Do Angel Investors Make Investment Decisions?

David Cohen, a Boulder-based entrepreneur and angel investor who I’ve done a few angel investments with and am now working on an interesting project with, has a great post up

August 7, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Amy The Earthquake Sensor

I grew up with tornados (I lived in Dallas) so I never experienced many earthquakes. My first one was in the middle of the night in Walnut Creek, CA while

August 6, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Dilbert and PowerPoint

JB pointed me at Dilbert’s comic on 8/3/06 that does a perfect job of explaining the problem with most PowerPoint presentations in 10 seconds.

August 6, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Books: Beyond Bullet Points

A while back I wrote one of my periodic rants against PowerPoint. I’ve sat through so many horrible PowerPoint presentations that I’ve ceased to be patient with them. When

August 5, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Stockdale Paradox

Read the following phrase and think about whether or not you practice it. You must retain faith that you can prevail to greatness in the end, while retaining the discipline

August 5, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Colorado Governor Race 2006 – Technology Community Forum

As we shift into full gear for the 2006 election cycle, I’ve teamed up with TiE-Rockies, VisiTechPR, Jack Tankersley (Meritage Funds), the Bill Ritter (Colorado Democrat Governor Candidate)

August 5, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Obsessed With Metrics

Tom Evslin has a super post up today titled Daily Key to Success. In it, he talks about his obsession with all sorts of daily business metrics as one of

August 5, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Serious Sushi Porn

Amy and I are sushi lovers. Chris sent us an article from BestLife titled Too Sexy for Wasabi about Masa Restaurant (in the Time Warner Center in New York City) and

August 5, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

FeedBurner Networks – The Venture Capital Network

FeedBurner is beta testing a new set of functionality – called “Networks” that is planned for a September launch. I’m coordinating one of the beta Networks – the Ve

August 4, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Are You Having Trouble Raising Venture Capital?

Matt McCall – my fellow board member / investor at FeedBurner – has a helpful post up titled Bootcamp: Show Me the Money. Matt does a nice job of describing

August 4, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld