Term Sheet: Indemnification and Assignment

We’re down to our last two sections on a typical VC term sheet. Since they are both things that most entrepreneurs simply live with as part of a financing, we

August 23, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

FeedBlitz – Feed Delivery Via Email

Matt Blumberg posted about his switch to FeedBlitz the other day (from Bloglet). If you receive my blog via email, you’ll notice that you are now receiving it via FeedBlitz

August 23, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Banning the Word "Play"

One of my pet peeves is the trendy overuse (and misuse) of certain words. I’ve railed in the past on the endless use of traction and space by my VC and

August 23, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Metaphor of the Day – Shark Bait

I just IMed a colleague who recently completed a Herculean task. I asked him how it felt to be done. He responded “About like a fish feels as he passes

August 22, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

National Public Radio Explains Why I Care About NCWIT

A short spot on National Public Radio today titled Computer Science: Calling All Women does a super job explaining why I’ve been working with Lucy Sanders on the National Center

August 22, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

ePartners raises $25 million

ePartners – one of my larger portfolio companies – announced today that they have closed a $25 million financing led by Needham Capital Partners. As part of this financing, Howard [&

August 22, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

API's Are Your Friend

Part of the beauty of the contemporary Internet application is the notion of an open API (Application Programming Interface). NewsGator released their NewsGator Online API today. FeedBurne

August 22, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: Planetwalker

I can’t remember who recommended Planetwalker to me (if it was you – thanks – please post a comment) – but I bought it immediately after finishing Slavomir Rawicz’s&

August 20, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Agile Is Mostly Common Sense

Over the past two years, I’ve learned a lot about Agile development methodologies as a result of my investment in Rally Software. Today – Tim Wolters – CTO of Collective

August 19, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Cancer is a Scary Word

I just got a phone call that a close friend has cancer. This is the fifth time this year that this has happened. Two breast cancers, one prostate cancer, one cervical

August 19, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld