Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

You may enjoy this post as an example that talks about my first meetings with Brad Feld, Tristan Walker, Justyn Howard and more. In his book he talked about mavens as being those people who are connected and through whom ideas spread faster. Maybe 50 if you really invest time and effort. Roger Ehrenberg. Fred Wilson. Manu Kumar.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 7, 2013

I explored this issue in a recent conversation with fellow WSJ Accelerator, Brad Feld. According to Brad, "There is a fundamental difference between an incubator and an accelerator… an incubator has an economic model that is based around having people be tenants. Having people being captive within some investor’s…sphere.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

I’ve spoken before about our desire at Upfront Ventures to fund really big ideas that solve hard problems, are science led and if successful will both have a positive effect on people’s lives as well as make great financial returns. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. We can’t wait to see what the next few years bring.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? For me to do either of these, I certainly need to really believe in the idea and it has to be something that won’t consume all of my time. How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Another option is sweat equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

So how do you overcome that given that all VCs must have a similar pattern to me other than super-human VCs like Brad Feld or Dave McClure who have insane travel schedules but an unbelievable ability to put in the air miles and be whenever/ whenever? Of course if it’s a company on fire I would travel to any 2-hop city from LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2010

Well Brad Feld, who recently visited us in LA , quoted Mark Pincus in saying, “be the CEO of your own job.&# So to bring solutions you need to be the CEO of your own job. this idea might work but my gut says it will be seen as ‘ gladly paying them tomorrow for a hamburger today ‘).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

That's the point of our announcement, which is to help celebrate the undiscovered talents and ideas that other investors and VCs might be overlooking, because they might not recognize those opportunities, or have the ability to invest in those areas. We found it's very important to cultivate those relationships in startups early.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

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). Ideas Are Worthless.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2019

They’re driven by metrics that don’t matter.” Brad Feld, American Venture Capitalist. When an entrepreneur selects a venture, the idea should be all consuming. Thus, when they created the first McDonald’s, their menu consisted of: hamburgers, fries, soft drinks, milkshakes and coffee. In short, he was smitten.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2013

And my friend Brad Feld & his wife had written a book on the importance of personal relationships which made me want to weigh in on that. Nobody that I’ve spoke with who had seen Jody recently has even an inkling of a idea. I cut-and-paste the text and saved it to my Trello board where I store blog ideas.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My initial blogging inspiration was actually Brad Feld because as an entrepreneur I always wanted to work with Brad after reading his advice on term sheets and the like. Again, Fred. ” This clip is just 2 minutes: I agree. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. But Fred got me to see a broader perspective.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

And leaving aside the penal system you probably have pre-conceived ideas of what it would be like to sit and talk with somebody who has committed armed robbery, been in a gang or even committed a violent crime. So I committed to going back again and partnered with Brad Feld to bring a team of 75 entrepreneurs and VCs to do it with us.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Below are 50 ideas for step 2. We get it!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

It was based on an excellent book I had just read by Brad Feld & Amy Batchelor (his wife). Even when you are tired and don’t feel like going out, once you are out you breathe deeply and realize it’s a good idea. I love the idea of a Digital Sabbath. It’s worth the hassle.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 10, 2014

Believe in love at first sight - be open to instant infatuation with respect to both people and business ideas. After you''ve worked hard to get what you want, take the time to enjoy it - in Startup Life , Brad Feld advises entrepreneurs to spend 10% of the proceeds of a financial windfall on something frivolous.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? The other amazing thing, is getting access to people like David Cohen and Brad Feld. Fanmix will ultimately let you find conversations you're not involved with, but which it might be valuable for you to participate in. We're also updating the format.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

It’s validating that there is a market for their idea. They’ve spent years developing a hypothesis and have invested their own time and money into a vision, so it can be frustrating to hear an investor pick that idea apart,” said Charles LaCalle, Head of Sourcing at Dreamit Ventures. Prepare for Q&A.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

The idea has become conventional wisdom. Brad Feld and I were discussing the topic at lunch at the most excellent Glue Conference this week in Boulder. There is an old management adage that says, “Hire slowly, fire fast.” It says that you need to take due care in selecting team members.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

In VC there are the obvious people including Bijan, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Josh Kopelman and Bryce Roberts. No, the ideas aren’t conflicting. Half baked ideas get refined, new ideas emerge and a two way dialoge develops where a one way monologue once was.&#. I’m sure there are many more.

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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 thought to myself, “OK, they were willing to F me when they thought I had no idea what I was talking about. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist. No option pool shuffle. No hidden terms.

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APRIL 3, 2010

Brad Feld at Foundry Group also invests in seed deals (this is a great post worth reading on Brad’s views of seed deals). How many entrepreneurs wouldn’t kill to have Brad and/or Foundry in general involved with their company. They also do follow ons so Chris’s idea about signaling exists with FRC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

When I started blogging as a VC I had zero idea it would lead to my current audience level of 350,000 page views / month. It was just a hobby that was inspired by Brad Feld & how much he gave back to the community (and me as an entrepreneur) and Fred Wilson who’s blog became a daily staple. Mostly, I love writing.

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JULY 4, 2011

As Thomas Friedman has spoken about (although I’m told Paul Kedrosky originally had the idea!) In America we have people like Steve Case, Brad Feld, Dave McClure, Shervin Pishevar. we should staple a green card on the certificate of every science graduate who comes to America. It’s a non-partisan issue.

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APRIL 21, 2010

The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. So these guys have both deep domain experience as well as tons of startup chops.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. Contrary to popular belief, innovative new ideas don’t often spring from a single mind. The best ideas evolve iteratively, and are tested by the ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Like Brad Feld I’m syndication agnostic but I have a slight preference toward working with others. If you hugely believe that you still have a $100 million idea then let’s go for it but please be prudent with how fast you spend your capital. This is the nature of compromise.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Their memory – the idea was theirs in the first place and you ran with it and didn’t include them. And Brad Feld.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

That was my original idea behind Launchpad LA. I also covered the impact of Brad Feld in Boulder or Fred Wilson in NYC as observed from my keynote on a trip to Seattle , which I felt could have a huge boom if its elder statements embraced startups a bit more. Klout was an LA company – sold for $200 million to Lithium.

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JUNE 8, 2014

The obvious starting point is the cross-pollination of ideas and talent. So when Tim floated the idea of chipping in a small amount to our fund I was immediately excited at this new relationship. Mavens are people like Gary V or Joanne Wilson in NY, Brad Feld & David Cohen in Boulder or Paddy Cosgrave in Dublin.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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MAY 5, 2011

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. The people with the time, energy & creativity to build organizations like TechStars need to bring their ideas to fruition.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

He had a ton of great ideas about what he wanted to do with TechStars NY. Brad Feld told me that TechStars makes each company practice the 1 or 2-minute pitch the first week of the program. If you don’t know David he’s the guy who will be running TechStars New York starting in January. Surprisingly so.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

If you really want a deep dive on anti dilution better that you go read Brad Feld’s post on the topic. I mean, I had no idea that they had full ratchets. It has nowhere near the same dilutive effects as a full ratchet except in extreme edge cases. How Convertible Debt with a Cap Behaves Like Full Ratchet.

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