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MAY 12, 2010

I recently wrote an article on how to respond to board members between meetings. Two people whom I respect (Babak Nivi and Brad Feld) added commentary that made me want to come back and clarify my thoughts. Brad Feld started with a bias for action in his post, “ Give Your VC’s Assignments.&#.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Parsing The Confusion.

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MARCH 5, 2012

free weekly Infochachkie articles! ” I recently discussed the explosion of seed accelerators and incubators with Brad Feld, who, as the Co-Founder of acclaimed startup accelerator TechStars , is uniquely qualified to opine upon the subject. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Brad believes that by placing entrepreneurial programs within Business Schools, ".a Want to be an entrepreneur? Don''t go to Wharton or Harvard. Organic Academia.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate. You can now take advantage of this wisdom directly as Brad has now published it for everybody in a fantastic new book, “Startup Communities.”

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Wise And Feld To The Rescue. Tell me what you think of it.”.

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JUNE 9, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! I was checking out your YouTube channel and I enjoyed your recent talk with Brad Feld. If that were the case, I would not have been provoked to write this article.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! In addition, I was honored to speak with such notable entrepreneurs as: Kevin O’Connor (Founder DoubleClick and FindTheBest), Brad Feld (Founder TechStars, Partner The Foundry Group), Marten Mickos (Founder MySQL and CEO of Eucalyptus Systems) and Len Short (CMO, (Product) RED, AOL and Charles Schwab).

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! One the most frequent questions asked of me by entrepreneurs is, "How can I become a Venture Capitalist?" In contrast, an Angel Investor is someone who invests their own capital.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! I was checking out your YouTube channel and I enjoyed your recent talk with Brad Feld. Little did I know when the call began, that it would end up being the worst networking call in which I have ever partaken. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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JUNE 19, 2017

There also were excellent posts by other VCs this week on the topic including Fred Wilson —  Should Your Company be Profitable Brad Feld —  Lessons from the Internet Bubble and importantly The Rule of 40% for a SaaS Startup (this influenced my thinking a great deal) Photo via Visual Hunt What is the Right Burn Rate for your Startup?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made.&# The data in this article is at best, a stretch. The paper is surprisingly much more balanced in its assertions than this TechCrunch article. “VC and former entrepreneur Brad Feld also blogged about how many of his frat buddies at MIT had become successful entrepreneurs.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

What does it mean when Michael Arrington sends out a link driving you to his latest article on TechCrunch? When Brad Feld lists a book on his blog with an affiliate link that he monetizes is that wrong? We all know and trust Brad to be authentic. I would argue that they already do. I don’t think so.

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MARCH 10, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! In the Fall of 1990, H. Jackson Brown sat at his kitchen table, pulled out a pad of paper and began writing advice to his son, who had just entered college. Discover.".

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JULY 30, 2012

This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. A company has a personality.

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MARCH 9, 2019

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. They’re driven by metrics that don’t matter.” Brad Feld, American Venture Capitalist. Thus, when they created the first McDonald’s, their menu consisted of: hamburgers, fries, soft drinks, milkshakes and coffee.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Brad Feld in Places to Find Developers in Exchange for Sweat Equity While finding a developer to work for sweat equity is an option, I’d assert that you’d be better served by hunting for a technical co-founder that is passionate about creating the company you envision. Go to tech (or other relevant industry) events.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents. How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. I will talk more about LaunchPad in my next post. Come join us.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog.

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MAY 22, 2012

If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Step 1: The Person, Not The Firm – As Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson make clear in their book Venture Deals , entrepreneurs should identify specific venture partners, rather than target firms as a whole. Prep Steps.

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JULY 9, 2012

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch HERE. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! My son recently tried to call one of our older relatives. He dialed the number and quickly hung up with a confused look on his face. Feeding The New Networks.

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JULY 22, 2010

Brad Feld hadn’t written his seminal “ term sheet series &# and The Funded hadn’t yet been created. I’m not sure I really even need to write this at length because Nivi absolutely nailed the topic in his article “ The Option Pool Shuffle.&#. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. Like Brad Feld I’m syndication agnostic but I have a slight preference toward working with others. This is the nature of compromise.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. If you install it on your website then users can copy text from your website (by doing control-C and copying a sentence or paragraph) and when they share it with others via email it provides a link back to the whole article.

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MARCH 27, 2011

I had been reading Brad Feld’s blog & Fred Wilson’s blog for a couple of years and found them very helpful to my thinking so I honestly just thought I was giving back to the community. So my biggest recommendation of “what&# to blog is a series of articles that will be helpful to your community.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

One of the most important articles I read during the entire year was David Brook’s op-ed article on “ The Haimish Line.” And so I framed much of my life since reading the article in Haimish terms. Getting rides from random people (a habit I picked up from Brad Feld). ” So true.

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MARCH 1, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. My favorite is by Rand Fishkin and is here and others by Fred Wilson ( here ) and Brad Feld ( here , who if he’s reading this just threw up a little in him mouth – all are worthwhile. I know what you’re thinking – link bait title, right?

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MAY 5, 2011

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Look at what Brad Feld has done for Boulder. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. I’m in Seattle this week. Of course I have. Can’t list them all.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This article initially appeared on TechCrunch - with a minor update highlighted in red below. If you really want a deep dive on anti dilution better that you go read Brad Feld’s post on the topic. We’re back to discussing convertible debt again. How Convertible Debt with a Cap Behaves Like Full Ratchet.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The Scene Will Kill You - Brad Hargreaves , November 7, 2010 If you’ve taken a deep dive into tech startups, you know about the scene. Surprisingly, I was thinking the same thing today about user-generated content, which basically check-in's are too. myself am a bit tired of Qype (German version of Yelp ) and Tripadvisor. Don’t be one.

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