A big, 'thank you' to Mick Bain and Graham Robinson at Wilmer Hale who have generously agreed to support some more scholarships to attend Business of Software next week in Boston. It is great to see a well-established and respected law firm doing something like that for the benefit of the Boston software ecosystem.  MORE >>

Brad Feld: @bfeld Feld, the Boulder-based managing director of Foundry Group, is a start-up scene veteran who invests in software and Internet companies. Dave McClure: @davemcclure McClure is the founder of 500 Startups, which provides early-stage companies with funding ranging from $10,000 to $250,000 seed investments. MORE >>

Example: if you’re a very early startup (seed/Series A), and you’re in enterprise software, then you’re most likely going to need more “hands-on” time with a customer prospect, as your product won’t be developed to the point where you can simply have people walking themselves through demos at a kiosk. MORE >>

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out  that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Series Seed Financing Documents (by Fenwick & West). Series Seed. MORE >>

About once or twice a week I get an email that goes something like this: “We are starting to raise our seed round; who should we be talking to?”. Keep the structure simple-- label your columns with titles like: Name -- Firm -- Stage -- Email & Phone -- Similar Deals -- Initial Contact Date -- Next Steps -- Notes, and so forth. MORE >>