Book Review: Old School

I can’t remember why Tobias Wolff’s Old School ended up on my reading pile, but I grabbed it and tossed it in my bag for my trip to San Francisco. I

July 21, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Why The "Hokey Pokey" Matters When You Are Creating A New Company

Niel Robertson – the CTO of Newmerix – was interviewed recently about his “four rules of market timing” (as they apply to creating a company). Niel is a successful multi-

July 21, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Firefox Tabs – Ctrl-X

I’m a Firefox fiend (extension count going up daily; Greasemonkey security fears acknowledged) and I just found out that if you have multiple tabs, you can go to tab N

July 21, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Denver Post News Hound

In the spring, NewsGator announced its Media Platform and a deal with the Denver Post. Today, the DenverPost.com released News Hound, their private-label RSS reader built on top of the

July 20, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Interview and Reprint of "To Participate or Not"

Anthony Nassar, who publishes an ezine called Propel Your Venture, just published an interview with me that he did last month. Simultaneously, VC Experts reprinted a post that Jason Mendels

July 19, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

VNU Business Media Europe Partners with FeedBurner

VNU announced today that it is going to start using FeedBurner to help manage and monetize its RSS feeds. VNU – one of the largest publishers in the world that

July 19, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Boards of Venture Backed Companies – "After The Term Sheet" (Jaffe / Levensohn)

I recently discovered an outstanding article by Dennis Jaffe (Saybrook Graduate School) and Pascal Levensohn (Levensohn Venture Partners) titled “After The Term Sheet: How Venture Boards Influen

July 17, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Grungy Airplane

I’m on an airplane for the first time in the last few weeks (from Anchorage to San Francisco). My choices are limited, so I decided to fly on Untied. The

July 17, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

David Cowan – New VC Blogger

David Cowan – a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners – has started a blog called Who Has Time For This? Frighteningly, David and I have known each other for almost

July 16, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Restriction on Sales, Proprietary Inventions, and Co-Sale Agreement

I had good intentions earlier this week to try to crank out the balance of the term sheet series, but it turned into a busy week. Since I’m still muddling

July 15, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld