What Percentage of 2010 Seed Deals Won't Raise The Next Round?

There have been a number of thoughtful “early warning sign” posts in the past few days including one from Fred Wilson (Storm Clouds), one from Mark Suster (What Angel Investing

November 16, 2010 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Angels In The Architecture

One of the events on our Do More Faster book tour will be something we are calling Angels in the Architecture.  Mike Platt from Cooley (one of our book tour

October 10, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Interview on Meet the Angels

Earlier this week I did a one hour interview on “Meet the Angels” sponsored by Tech Coast Angels (one of the LA Angel groups.)  It was supposed to live but

September 24, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurs Dislike Signaling; VCs Dislike Free Riders

I was thinking more about my post from yesterday titled Addressing The VC Seed Investor Signaling Problem.  There were a bunch of good comments that caused me to realize that

September 8, 2010 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Addressing The VC Seed Investor Signaling Problem

One of the most common criticisms of VC investors making seed investments is something that has become known as “the signaling problem.”  The explanation of this problem is that VCs

September 7, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Serious Questions For Super Angels

Following is a post on super angels I wrote yesterday for PEHub. In the beginning, there were angel investors. And it was good. As individual angel investors made more and

September 1, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

VC Seed Funding Example: Trada

My partner Seth Levine has a detailed post up today titled Trada – from the beginning that describes the creation and financing of Trada. Foundry Group is the seed investor

August 10, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Now That's How You Do An Angel Pitch Event

I attended the second Open Angel Forum in Boulder tonight.  Simply put, it was dynamite. This is an intense week for seed stage stuff in Boulder as TechStars Demo Day

August 4, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Buzz on Angel and Seed Investing Continues

Ah – well – another day passed and there was once again a ton of chatter around angel investing.  A lot of it was prompted by AngelConf 2010 which you

July 30, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

AngelList Boulder and Some Thoughts on Seed Investing

I got a note from Nivi, the creator of AngelList, over the weekend saying that he’d put up a special page for angel investors in Boulder.  He’s looking for the local

July 26, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld