Early Stage Marketing and Sales – The "Why" vs. the "What"

I was at a Rally Software board meeting where we spent a chunk of time finalizing and approving the 2005 operating plan. A big part of the discussion – not

December 15, 2004 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Feedburner Publicize

Feedburner continues to impress – they just announced some new features, including FeedCount. Dick, Eric, and crew have taken “Keep It Simple and Sloppy” to heart – they releas

December 15, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

How Many Angels is the Right Number

I got the following question via email today: All things being equal and all things being perfect, is it better to have more or less ‘angels’ in the mix? I

December 13, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Ryan McIntyre – Another VC Blogger

Ryan McIntyre – who works with me at Mobius – has started blogging. Ryan’s a great friend and collegue and – even though he went to Stanford – I still

December 10, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Healthy Cost Reduction

I was with my uncle Charlie at EDS yesterday catching up on a variety of things. I always pick up a handful of pithy thoughts from him – it’s one

December 10, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Sales Tools – Heat Map Example

After posting Sales Tools – Keep Them Simple (e.g. A Heat Map) I got a couple of comments saying “show an example.” (Now that’s a great example of NOT keeping

December 8, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Sales Tools – Keep Them Simple (e.g. A Heat Map)

I was sitting in a meeting yesterday with one of our companies and saw a very compelling sales presentation. The company has developed good sales momentum in a specific vertical

December 7, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Testing NewsGator Outlook posting to Movable Type

NewsGator just released a production version of their Movable Type posting plug-in. It joins a bunch of other posting plug-ins including TypePad and Blogger. With this, you can post direct

December 5, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Feed Magic

I’ve been enjoying watching my Feedburner stats increase steadily. However, recently I put a web stats package on my web server to see what was going on. I was completely

December 3, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

NewsGator's Second Round

NewsGator announced that they closed their second round of financing today. They also added two executives to their management team – Sandy Hamilton (EVP Sales and Business Development) and Mark

December 2, 2004 · 3 min · Brad Feld