Brad Feld
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How Many Deals Should Be Needed To Return A VC Fund?
Fred Wilson has another excellent post up titled Venture Fund Economics: When One Deal Returns The Fund. He continues his ......
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How does a small company make a big company successful?
tl;dr: As a small company, focus on two things with big companies: “1. What can we, the small company do, ......
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We will never need another financing
I hear some version of this one all the time.“We will never need another financing.”“This financing will get us to ......
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Victims and leaders
In a recent board meeting, at a particularly challenging part of the conversation, I did a retrospective of the past ......
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After Failure, What's Next?
Recently, I wrote a post titled After Your First Big Success, What’s Next? The comment thread was powerful and fascinating, ......
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My first experience as a venture capitalist
I often get asked how I ended up becoming a venture capitalist. When people ask me how they can become ......
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The reputational damage of non-responsiveness
VCs love to say things like “we are entrepreneur friendly.” It’s trendy, catchy, and looks good on a blog post. ......
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Sometimes failure is your best option
Some entrepreneurs and investors subscribe to the creed “failure is not an option.” I’m not one of them.I strongly believe ......
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It's your job to improve your team
At this year’s NVCA meeting, my partner (who was the chair of the event) interviewed Dick Costolo, the CEO of ......
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What is the appropriate time horizon of a financial model for VCs?
Q: When building a financial projection model for a pitch to VC’s, should you include future rounds of funding in ......
