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

Both Sides of the Table

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. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Brad on blogging.

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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

I still remember the first time I met Len, sitting in a restaurant in downtown Boston, wondering to myself “who is this guy and what does he want?” In addition to having my company acquired, I worked with them on the diligence team for a number of other acquisitions. I treasure every moment I have with each of them.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

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Despite Benchmark’s strong association with ecommerce during the late 1990’s due to the success of companies like eBay, we have not been particularly active in ecommerce in the past several years. And due to falling competent prices, Dell’s inventory turn advantage also contributed to a gross margin advantage.