What's The Best Structure For A Pre-VC Investment?

I received the following question earlier this week.  It’s conveniently timed, as I recently participated in two angel investments – each with one of the structures defined below. What’s the

February 25, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: Company

I’ve been very busy the past few weeks so I haven’t had much reading time. I’ve been slowly working my way through Company by Max Barry. Tonight, after my friends

February 24, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Pages, Signon, and MyBook

I spent the requisite five minutes on Google Pages tonight now that I could actually log in. I created a very simple page, just to see what it felt like.

February 23, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Denver Is Nothing Without Boulder

Ah – a second great quote from Hickenlooper this morning for those of you in the audience from Colorado. John just said “Denver Is Nothing Without Boulder.” When I first

February 23, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Politics is Hollywood for Ugly People

I’m at the Venture Capital in the Rockies Conference today. Denver’s awesome Mayor – John Hickenlooper – is the breakfast speaker. It’s 8:25 and I’ve al

February 23, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Return Path ECOA – Speaking of Memory Lane

Matt Blumberg – the CEO of Return Path – wrote a post on a meeting he hosted yesterday with some of the old-timers at Return Path – including one of

February 23, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Google Page Creator – Oops

I don’t understand, but that’s nothing new. I saw the rapidly expanding buzz about Google Page Creator and went to check it out. We were investors in Geocities and this

February 23, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Free Sun Niagra (Sun Fire T2000) Server

So – Jonathan Schwartz – Sun’s President – blogged about Sun’s offer to let people try a Niagra server free for 60 days. According to Jonathan: The program started

February 22, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Oxlo and GM

I woke up this morning feeling like brogging about a few of the companies I’ve invested in. It’s easy today since they are announcing meaningful customer implementations which a

February 22, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

NewsGator Enterprise Server and Law Firms

NewsGator announced that Dykema – a large midwest law firm – has implemented NewsGator Enterprise Server. Dykema has 10 offices and 800 users nationwide and they wanted integration w

February 22, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld