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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. We got to term sheet a bit quicker, but from start to the close was basically June to Nov 2003. Congrats!

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. 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. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. That changed very quickly.

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Popular Posts

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The two most popular posts remain this one on term sheet negotiation and this one on venture debt , although this one on convertible debt is giving them a run for their money. Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink.

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top 10 posts from 2008

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Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs , Entrepreneurship , Green Business , Management , Startups , Technology , Venture Capital , Venture Debt and tagged top posts. Tips: $75 Killver VC Pitch Deck Not much to learn here. Although in 2008 I did learn that this is called a “ sneeze page.&# Who knew?

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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He’s been at it since 2005. The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way. I know that eventually if your company is out of cash and you need the money you’ll take it even on punishing terms. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37.

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How to Fund a Startup

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November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Want to start a startup? Apply for funding by March 3. Few startups get it quite right. Whendel.icio.us