VC's Pitching To VC's at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference

Larry Gregory has put together an interesting VC panel for the upcoming Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles in mid-September. Rather than the typical VC panel – where we get to

August 25, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Dear Palestinian Bomber

In today’s “direct mail databases are broken” category, the Huffington Post has a short piece titled “California Man Receives Credit Card Offer Addressed to ‘Palestinian

August 25, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Philandering Entrepreneurs or Sour Grapes

In the “best entrepreneur gossip blog post” of the day category, Alan Meckler and the guys from LightReading.com give a public example of the issues in the intellectual exchange that

August 24, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Send Gmail From Any Address

Now – here’s a feature that’s useful for all the Gmail addicts in the world. Now, you can have your “From” address be anything you want for an email you

August 24, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Everyone Is Twittering About Chat

Or is that “everyone is chatting about twittering?” Google released Google Talk yesterday. While it’s an obvious first step, it’s unremarkable. Apparently, in

August 24, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet Series Wrap Up

Jason and I hope you enjoyed reading our term sheet series at least as much as we enjoyed writing it.  While we won’t be competing with our friend Jack Bauer for

August 23, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

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