brad feld

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15 March, 2016

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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02 February, 2015

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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27 January, 2015

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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29 October, 2014

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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20 June, 2014

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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08 January, 2014

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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12 August, 2013

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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25 July, 2013

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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20 May, 2013

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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01 February, 2013

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 ......