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MARCH 2, 2011

After the weekend kerfuffle over AngelList I was reading Brad Feld’s post on Signal vs. Noise. But aside from choosing the time of day to focus on signal vs. noise, Brad’s post got me thinking about another question – what is signal and what is noise? Brad is a zero inbox kind of guy. I enjoy that.

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JANUARY 25, 2015

This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.” And of course it’s true in personal productivity apps, SMB apps, B2B software and so forth. ” If you didn’t read it I recommend it. It’s important to understand.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Brad Feld points out in his widely-read book Startup Communities , that business schools within universities are generally devoid of innovation and thus are not engines of entrepreneurship. Brad believes that by placing entrepreneurial programs within Business Schools, ".a Techpreneurs. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

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JANUARY 13, 2013

But of course life isn’t like this. And as I moped in self-pity the last 2 weeks of December and reflected about how much I hate December I came across this blog post by Brad Feld that really spoke to me. And I was glad to count Brad as a friend. Who of course made me go in the water also.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Andy Sack, Dave McClure, Brad Feld & Jason Nazar (photo by Jolie Odell). We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle).

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APRIL 27, 2013

Of course if it’s a company on fire I would travel to any 2-hop city from LA. 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?

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JUNE 19, 2017

Of course there is no right answer but it’s a function of how much capital you have raised, your prospects for raising more capital in the future, your growth rate and your company’s risk tolerance. Sometimes, of course, reducing burn means cutting costs which usually means cutting staff.

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JUNE 5, 2015

I am reminded of this problem every time my firm does a financing where a note went before us but more specifically I was reminded by this great post by Brad Feld to talk about the pre-money vs. post-money conversion issue. But as Brad discussed – what happens to the prior convertible note in this new world?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Of course I don’t believe this argument. There is of course much nurture and culture weaved in. Of course you don’t have do be great at all 12 skills. “VC and former entrepreneur Brad Feld also blogged about how many of his frat buddies at MIT had become successful entrepreneurs. from a young age.

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MARCH 23, 2015

Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” 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.

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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. But of course life isn’t like this. Somebody commented that in 2013 I have done a lot more personal posts than usual. I didn’t set out that way. It just happened. Aaron Schwartz.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

I should note that my friend Brad Feld has written a new book on the subject that I would recommend if you want the bible on the topic. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

And was willing to be as open about it as Brad Feld, my inspiration , was. Jason charted his own course though. At the time both SaaS and LA seemed risky branding to me so I settled on what I felt was most authentic – Both Sides of the Table. But Jason took Quora usage to 11.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Of course, if you are a good developer looking for equity-only positions in very interesting startups, please drop me a note. Unless you are a co-founder of the startup, a developer is probably not going to do all that well working on sweat equity alone. Go to tech (or other relevant industry) events. Refine your elevator pitch.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

Take lots of inputs but then let your internal compass set your course. Often it’s not the best course. I love reading Eric Reis, Steve Blank, Clay Christenson, Brad Feld and others. If “all the cool kids are doing it” make sure you have strong internal logic for why you’re going to follow them.

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy has graduated 1,100 prisoners upon release who have created 150 businesses that now employe 350 people — many of them ex Defy Graduates And of course Defy has a post-release program to help with reentry into a society not geared towards helping with recovery. The 3-year recidivism rate in California for comparison is more than 50%.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Of course a very important component of any startup community is venture capital, because ultimately to scale large businesses you still need to raise large sums of capital and you need the access to major Silicon Valley tech giants that often comes with venture capitalists. .” Venture Capital. Mavens are evangelizers.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! I always wanted to work with Brad for this reason so I started blogging because I figured if transparency worked for Brad I would try the same approach.

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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 26, 2011

I don’t really care if I’m wrong as long as I’m not dogmatic if evidence later shows we need to change course. Brad Feld and I were discussing the topic at lunch at the most excellent Glue Conference this week in Boulder. So that was a long walk into the topic of recruiting.

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MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. 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. And of course you need a mature venture capital industry. This article originally ran on TechCrunch.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

You can also have them automatically published to Twitter; in fact, I first heard about the Withings from seeing Brad Feld Tweet about it. There is, of course, a paid version. Your measurements are automatically sent via wi-fi to the cloud and stored in a password protected portal viewed on the web or on your iPhone.

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MAY 22, 2018

Total, complete, unyielding obsession,” said Brad Feld , Cofounder of Techstars via a previous interview with Tech.Co. Of course, if you’re none of those things, you might want to have someone else pitch.”. Obsession about the product and the customer is a common trait among startup teams. Final Thoughts.

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APRIL 21, 2010

And of course the big question is whether Salesforce.com can out innovate these startups (especially after their acquisition of InStranet ). Expect great things from Assistly. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. 2.2mm in Series A. What was I thinking?

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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. 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. Now how does this apply to convertible debt with a cap?

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Oh, they didn’t cover that in your Stanford CS course? And Brad Feld. Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling. That’s why I love VentureHacks.

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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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