Term Sheet: Conditions Precedent to Financing

As I watched 24 last night, I kept thinking to myself “Why the fuck does Jack have his cell phone ringer on – hasn’t he ever heard of vibrate?” immediately

April 12, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Continued Effort of Return Path to Battle the Axis of Evil

Fred Wilson calls it one of the members of the Internet Axis of Evil. You know it as spam. Several of our companies (Return Path and Postini) are hard at work

April 11, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Colorado In April

I live in the mountains outside of Boulder. Once a year, every spring, for the last 10 years (since I moved here in 1995), I get snowed in for one

April 11, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Just Do It

I’m not a golfer, but I can appreciate an amazing play / shot / race in any sport. Fred Wilson had a beautiful picture of Tiger Woods up on his

April 11, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: The Greatest

As a runner, I love a good running book. The Greatest – the biography of Haile Gebrselassie – a man who dominated distance running for a decade – was extremely inspiring.&

April 10, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Conversion

While lots of VCs posture during term sheet negotiations by saying “that is non-negotiable”, terms rarely are (as you’ve likely inferred from previous posts on term sheets be me and

April 10, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: Sight Hound

If you love dogs, strong women, Colorado, hockey, ranches, complicated yet lifelike characters, and beautiful writing, Sight Hound is a must read. I haven’t read Pam Houston’s o

April 10, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Judy's Book and Integration with Movable Type

I’ve recently become obsessed with the notion that all my data should be integrated in one place and be able to be entered from one place. Of course, this isn’t

April 9, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Apology to All Mothers Everywhere

I’ve got another month before I have to send flowers, chocolate, and my other special mothers day stuff, but an email from my mom today prompted me to write an

April 9, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

NPR: An Impending Period of Transitional Chaos for Media

I don’t write about broadcast media much – it’s not my thing. I’ve definitely had my entertaining moments – including a very strange lunch at Blackrock with Mel Kar

April 8, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld