Beware the Grinfuckers

I did a talk with a private community of 100 GPs and investors in venture capital called Aces last week. It’s an off-the-record, confidential group organized by a few people,

May 26, 2025 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Founder's Choice VC Firm Ranking

There have been many different approaches to ranking VC Firms over the years I’ve been an entrepreneur and a VC. Each approach I’ve seen has issues. Most are easily gamed

August 30, 2022 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Down Rounds: Deal With Reality

Connie Loizos is one of the long-time tech industry writers who I respect. I don’t respond to many interview requests these days, but I’ll always talk to her. She has

June 10, 2022 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book: The Business of Venture Capital

Today’s book recommendation, for anyone interested in venture capital, is The Business of Venture Capital: The Art of Raising a Fund, Structuring Investments, Portfolio Management, and Exits by

March 24, 2021 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Venture Kills or the Sunday New York Times

I had a really nice week off the grid. More on that in another post. I woke up this morning with a very long run in mind. The air quality

August 23, 2020 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Never Take Money From A VC: Part 1

My partner Chris Moody decided to be a vlogger and has started a new video series. I suggested he hang out on TikTok but he prefers trying to get famous

August 5, 2020 · 1 min · Brad Feld

LinkedIn Learning: Raising Venture Capital and Validating Your Startup Idea

I recently recorded two free courses with LinkedIn Learning. They are each under an hour long and broken up into a bunch of small segments. The first one is on

May 1, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

That Day When Your VC Tells You She Is Leaving Her Firm

There are some blog posts that every entrepreneur should read. Hunter Walk at Homebrew recently wrote one of them. It’s titled Oh Shit, Your VC Just Quit Her Fund! What

April 16, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld

How To Get A Job In Venture Capital

My partner Seth Levine has written several posts over the years on the topic of how to get a job in venture capital. His 2019 post, titled creatively How To&nbs

February 21, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A Venture Capital Career Is Like Walking from Boston to San Francisco

I’m a recent conversation with Eric Paley, he gave me an amazingly wonderful analogy for how the career of a VC unfolds. He said: “Being a VC is like taking a

July 26, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld