Bijan Sabet started it with a great post titled We Gotta Do A Deal Together and Fred Wilson followed with an equally great post titled Trading Deals, A Lost Art?  I’m going to try to add to the mix with this post by describing our strategy at Foundry Group around syndication and explain a little […]

Yesterday was Return Path’s 10th Birthday.  Matt Blumberg, Return Path’s CEO and founder, wrote a great reflective post on his blog titled A Perfect Ten. Among other things he covers what he is proudest of from Return Path’s first decade as well as what he regrets or would have done differently. Matt and his team […]

Simeon Simeonov, the Founder & CEO of FastIgnite, has put together a nice Stock Option Vesting Calculator.  It works just fine for stock vesting as well.  Sim is a dynamite entrepreneur who has also done a tour of duty as a VC so he knows the drill well.  In the email he sent me about […]

Every day I get emails from entrepreneurs that make me think.  In this case, it’s from a friend who is on the fundraising trail.  He started off the email with “I felt compelled to share this with you as someone who would appreciate it.”  I thought it was dynamite and asked him if I could […]

One of my favorite quotes is “Do, or do not.  There is no try.”  When you say it (or think it), you must use Yoda’s mix of a gravelly+whiney voice and pretend you are short and green.  Variations of the quote show up regularly throughout TechStars including on the walls.  The video this week is […]

Ever since David Cohen started TechStars, I’ve encouraged him to “open source” everything.  We regularly get approached by people all over the world to talk about the program.  We do – we tell them everything about what we do, how we do it, and why we do it.  We share our documents with them.  We […]

My partner Jason Mendelson has finally started his own blog titled Mendelson’s Musings.  Jason has been a guest blogger on Feld Thoughts for several years (in our Term Sheet, LOI, and 409A series) and he and I have been collaborating on Ask the VC since the beginning of 2007. Given Jason’s unique proclivities, I expect […]

I get questions like the following on a regular basis: "I like reading your blog, and I’m amazed that you can get involved with so many things simultaneously and manage to get great results while living a balanced life. Could you talk a little about your time management techniques, and how do you prioritize your […]

I love a good rant and Dave McClure has a doozy up titled VC’s & Tech Lawyers: Innovate, Automate, Simplify.  Several years ago when Jason and I wrote our Term Sheet series, I often thought to myself (and often out loud) “why is this so complicated?” (ok – there were some adverbs used as modifiers in […]