Whenever I show up in a powerpoint slide next to Paris Hilton, I’ve got to wonder. Stan ponders whether Paris has too much attention.  I ponder why I let them cut my hair so short.  Entertainingly, this is not the most popular image in Google Image Search for “paris hilton term sheets.”  For the historians […]

One of my most popular blog series ever was on Term Sheets.  I’ve been pondering another series for a while and a reader inspired me this morning to start one on Financial Statements.    I think your post this morning opened up a subject area you might wish to develop further. Your point was start with the […]

Amy and I just got back from an awesome week off.  We flew to Laguna Beach for our Q1 vacation, disconnected completely, and hid from the world for a week.  Lots of sleep, running, sun, great food, that marital thing (you know – walking on the beach and holding hands), and a few movies (Deja Vu […]

One of my favorite CTO’s (Tim Wolters – CTO / co-founder of Collective Intellect) is on the road fundraising and has some posts out on the process and terms he’s starting to see as they move from foreplay to term sheet.  Me and VC is a great quick rant on feedback (“why would you even […]

If you go to Feld Thoughts, you’ll see a little widget on the right hand side that looks like the following: This is my “badge” for the FeedBurner Venture Capital network.  This a network of all of the Venture Capital bloggers that I could find – I’m the coordinator so if you are a VC […]

Jason Mendelson and I have started a new blog aimed at entrepreneurs called AsktheVC.  We’ve started this blog to discuss relevant issues in the venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem. As you may know, we’ve spent a lot of time over the past three years writing about venture capital and entrepreneurship on Feld Thoughts. We’ve had […]

Jim Lejeal and I have worked together for almost a decade – I was one of the investors in his last company – Raindance Communications (now part of West Corp) and am an investor in his new company, Oxlo Systems. Jim also has a lot of experience as an angel investor and a board member […]

On this spectacular fourth of July (at least in Homer – it’s 60 degrees and not a cloud in the sky), I was enjoying disk 2 of Atlas Shrugged (I’m about 300 pages in) on my run today.  I’m deep into the section where all the competent people are quitting and walking off the playing field […]

Following is a question I got the other day. We have some people who are currently interested in doing a Series A round with us.  They aren’t VC’s – they’re a company in our market who offer a pile of services complimentary to ours (they aren’t competitors, or substitutes.)  In our conversations with them, they’re […]