Learn To Duck (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... creates a list they miss people, so if I piss you off by leaving you off, then good. Todd Vernon , Brad Feld , Seth Levine , David Cohen - for providing mentorship and friendship. Its always great to learn from others, especially while laughing. Andrew Hyde - for showing me the importance of community and introducing yourself to others. Erin Kotecki Vest - for being unwaveringly right...
bub.blicio.us (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
by Marissa Louie ZOMG Our angel and VC friends have done it again. They’d rather roast our insides than roast the turkey. Turn that portfolio company from turkey to turnkey. Joke’s on us, VC billionaires . Purchaze -1- Paul Kedrosky: Somali Pirates and TARP *PAULSON: TARP PIRATE EQUITY IS AN `INVESTMENT,’ WILL PAY OFF.” -2- Brad Feld: Take Responsibility for your Actions “I tried calling...
Howard Lindzon (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
We have allowed the word ‘bailout’ to seep way to far into the public consciousness. It has ‘tipped’. America is voting on it everyday in the stock market. Our leaders unfortunately have no ability to read the stock market and tape and the panicked, reactive policies will surely send us lower over time. It will get worse before it gets better. I was reading a great Brad Feld post and...
Ben Casnocha: The Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... book Big Russ and Me ) and on that day I vowed to write this post. Third, over the years my mentor Brad Feld has written movingly about his father and mother and inspired me to do the same. What follows are informal comments which seems appropriate given that the learning is not over! Dad Dad has taught me the value of hard work. So many people talk about hard work. Yet actions speak...
Global Nerdy (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... few The VC followed The TechStars Concept Along with me, other people mentoring at TechStars are: Brad Feld : Invested in Harmonix , who are behind the Rock Band games Jared Polis : He was behind Blue Mountain Arts online cars and ProFlowers — he got elected to congress on Nov 4th TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage investment fund It’s been referred to as "Incubator 2.0,...
The Post Money Value (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
1200 enquires of the last couple of weeks. Some stats for you: 32 from India 813 from North America 4 from Africa (the continent) 22 from Australia/New Zealand (separate countries, I know) The rest from Europe. 50 or so: "I love your blog" - Of those, 2 people specifically called out "amazing posts" and then referenced posts from Brad Feld. Cold, people, really cold. And one guy from...
Howard Lindzon (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
If you don’t know about Filtrbox already, you should. In simple terms its like google alerts on steroids, but really its more than that. I was introduced to the company by my friend Brad Feld, and was really impressed with the service and figured “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”. So I made an [...]
Venture Hacks (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
We’re busy working on our first book: Pitching Hacks. We’re excited and—you guessed it—it’s all about pitching to investors. The book also includes passages from the writings of Marc Andreessen, David Cowan, Brad Feld, and a mess of other folks. Sign up to get an email when we release Pitching Hacks. Here’s a couple pictures of its [...]
flashpoint (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
A recurring theme at this year’s Defrag conference is the concept of a flow app (see Stowe Boyd post from last year ) which I loosely define as an aggregator that brings together multiple information streams into a single view. More broadly known as lifestreaming, these applications are still very basic and only being used by a niche audience of the hyper-connected. Brad Feld said that...
Tech Confidential Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
The following is from Ask The VC, where Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group answer questions related to venture capital investment and startups:Q: I am part of a tech start-up...
chrisbrogan.com (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... team should be 2-3 people, with strong technical memebers. Work on smaller projects together. As Brad Feld says: Trust is Essential. Be Known Did you hear about that new startup that launched without any friends in this area? Me either. Comment on peoples blogs. Add value. Write a ton of emails. Volunteer to beta test. Send bug reports in. Help out the community. Help organize events....
Fractals of Change (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... Business Exchange. Blogs (Thanks, fellow bloggers). Fred Wilson's A VC Open Up The TV White Spaces Brad Feld's Feld Thoughts Encourage The FCC To Improve the Internet The Jeff Pulver Blog Act NOW for Better Internet Access. Support Technology Innovation in America. Vermont Tiger Free The White Space Vermont News Sites The Burlington Free Press Internet to replace unused TV...
The Post Money Value (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
... into companies and working through what can be done with respect to moving the company forward. Brad Feld said it best in a prior blog post: Step up . Step up, put your shoulder into it, let's figure it out, and get it over the finish line. I know for fact that while power points were being build in some places and memos were being prepared to be leaked in others, Brad and...
