Current Startup Market Emotional Biases

Bill Gurley wrote an incredible post yesterday titled On the Road to Recap: Why the unicorn financing market just became dangerous … for all involved. It’s long but worth reading every word

April 21, 2016 · 7 min · Brad Feld

Founders – Use Your Down Round To Clean Up Your Cap Table

Mark Suster wrote a great post yesterday titled The Resetting of the Startup Industry. Go read it now – I’ll wait. Once again, as we find ourselves in the middle of

February 9, 2016 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Load Balancing Between VC Partners

I woke up this morning in Fort Worth, Texas. For the first minute I wasn’t really sure where was I but it eventually snapped into focus. This happens to me

January 21, 2016 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Why I Don't Have To Follow VC Blogs Anymore

Two words: Mattermark Daily When I started blogging in 2004 I think I was the third VC blogger after David Hornik* and Fred Wilson (if you were, or know, of another pre-2004 VC

December 21, 2015 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death:  Venture Capital in the 1980’s. While I

August 25, 2015 · 7 min · Brad Feld

The Pre-money vs. Post-money Confusion With Convertible Notes

The other day, Mark Suster wrote a critically important post titled One Simple Paragraph Every Entrepreneur Should Add to Their Convertible Notes. Go read it – I’ll wait. Or, if you just [

June 2, 2015 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Transparent Funding Announcements

We are in a cycle again where how much you raise is the story. It’s what the press likes to write about (e.g. Company X raised Y from A, B,

April 29, 2015 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Paradox of VC Value-Add

Scott Maxwell of OpenView Partners had an awesome post up this morning titled The Truth About VC Value-Add. Go read it – I’ll still be here when you get back. You may

April 23, 2015 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Resolving Conflicts in a VC Partnership

I got the following question the other day. “If you get a chance, I’d request you to write a blog post about various business decision related conflicts or misunderstanding that

March 24, 2015 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Capital Is Cheap And Labor Is Expensive

I was on an airplane for the first time for business in a while and when I woke up from my nap I found my self staring at CNBC on

August 5, 2014 · 4 min · Brad Feld