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24 hours with Android and Chrome

by Brad Feld, December 11, 2009 | Comments

	Reactions to a couple of the new toys Google has put out As 2009 heads into the home stretch, I’m feeling techno-restless. I’ve got two big end of year projects that I’m working on that will keep me in front of my computer a lot, along with a pile of new toys that have shown up in the past few weeks that I’m playing with. So – yesterday I decided to start ...
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The 800 pound gorilla problem

by Brad Feld, November 23, 2009 | Comments

Make sure you determine whether it’s 800 pounds or 12 pounds

I was at a board meeting recently where the board and management was discussing the company’s market position. This is a strong company that leads its market and, as a result, one of the board members stated that we were “the 800 pound gorilla in the market.” In my world view, the market was still relatively small so I suggested ...

Some complexities of VC seed investing

by Brad Feld, October 20, 2009 | Comments

Should there be a difference between seed investment and "Series A investment?"

Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners, has an outstanding post up this morning titled VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding. Mark started blogging recently and has quickly turned into my second favorite VC blogger (after Fred Wilson) – if you don’t subscribe to his feed, you should. Mark just did his first seed deal, a ...

The best board meetings

by Brad Feld, August 12, 2009 | Comments

	Have a dinner the night before the actual meeting Over the past 15 years I’ve been to thousands of board meetings. Last week I had four; this week I have two. I’ve spent a lot of time – often during board meetings – thinking about how to make them better and more effective. Yesterday, Fred Wilson (who was at the Return Path board meeting in Boulder with me) wrote ...
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Holes in the mainstream media wall

by Brad Feld, July 28, 2009 | Comments

	The NYT was being obtuse by making this hard to figure out I’ve always hated walled gardens. Before I started blogging in 2004, I had a point of view that was driven from my desire to share interesting information with my friends and colleagues. Since I’m a big reader, I run across a lot of stuff and have always enjoyed sharing, going back to the late 1980’s when I used to cut ...
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How to say no in 60 seconds

by Brad Feld, July 1, 2009 | Comments

	I say 'no' a minimum of 10 and at times more than 50 a day I say “no” all the time. I could start keeping track of the number of times I do it a day, but I’d guess it’s a minimum of 10 and occasionally over 50 times a day. When I type that, my first reaction is “no way, there’s no possible way I say no more than 50 times a day”, but ...
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