Term Sheet: Pay-to-Play

There’s nothing like a solid week of vacation with no phone, email, or blogs to get the writing juices rolling again. Of course, now that I’m through my email, I only

March 22, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Spencer F. Katt Blogs

I’ve been a Spencer F. Katt fan for as long as I can remember. I even have a classic Spencer Katt t-shirt and a coffee mug somewhere for rumors I sent

March 21, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet – Anti-Dilution

It has been a while since I put up a term sheet post so I thought I’d tackle a hard one today. While it’s fun to tease lawyers about math

March 21, 2005 · 7 min · Brad Feld

Vacation in Paris with Amy and Books

Five years ago, Amy told me that in order to stay married (to her), I needed to commit to going away for a week every three months for a vacation.

March 20, 2005 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Warren Buffet's Annual Shareholder Letter

Warren Buffett is one of my business heros – I think he is amazing on many different levels. His Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder letter is legendary (and a model that everyone [

March 12, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Analog Analog – How to Explain Your Idea to a VC

Allen Morgan at Mayfield has a nice series up on his blog about the ten commandments for entrepreneurs. His post today is Commandment #6: Explain Your New Ideas by Analogy

March 8, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Exponential Cost Curves and the Datacenter

Everyone knows that exponential curves don’t last forever. However, it’s remarkable to look at how they apply to specific cost curves – especially when they enable a radical tr

March 8, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Amazon / T-Mobile Will Pay You $50 to Buy a Sidekick II

I’ve never completely understood the whole cell phone industry subsidize handset thing, but I’ll roll with it (ok – I understand it – market share, total value of the customer,

March 6, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Books: Mental Muscle and Mental Floss

I was totally fried from my week so I stayed away from my computer all day yesterday. I had a fun breakfast with Lucy Sanders of NCWIT and Krisztina Holly of

March 6, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Wired Magazine Needs A Fact Checker

In this month’s Wired: Start: I Got Accepted at Google! article, the authors state that “for the classes of 2001 to 2004, getting into a corporate campus was harder than

March 6, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld