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By Brad Feld on March 15, 2010
One of our internal mantras at TechStars is to “publish your data.” We encourage ever team to do this starting very early in their life. To this day, I still get daily performance reports (I refer to them as TPS reports) from many of the companies that have gone through the program.
Last week, David Cohen [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Entrepreneurship, startups, TechStars, Venture Capital
By Brad Feld on March 1, 2010
As of today’s announcement that Ted Wang at Fenwick & West has collaborated with a group of bay area early stage VC’s and angel investors to create the Series Seed Documents (the site isn’t up yet so I can’t opine on the quality of the docs but I expect them to be fine) we now [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Fenwick & West, financing, lawyers, Marc Andreessen, seed documents, Startup company, startups, Term Sheet, vc funding, Venture Capital, Y Combinator
By Brad Feld on February 24, 2010
Today, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced the StartUp Visa Act of 2010. The group of us behind the Startup Visa project have been working closely with key members of each Senators’ staff on this and we are incredibly pleased with the proposed bill.
Following is the text from the press release [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, Immigration, Startup Visa, startups, Venture Capital
By Brad Feld on February 19, 2010
If there is one thing you read today, go read Brad Burnham at Union Square Ventures excellent essay titled Software patents are the problem not the answer.
Several years ago when I first started saying things like “software patents are invalid constructs” or “software shouldn’t be able to be patented” or “software patents are a huge [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Brad Burnham, innovation, Intellectual Ventures, Nathan Myhrvold, patent trolls, Patents, software patents, Venture Capital
By Zoli Erdos on February 3, 2010
Image by GRP Partners via CrunchBase
CloudAve readers know Mark Suster for his popular series on startups, getting funded, generally dealing with VCs but also on strategy, sales, management, presentations ..etc. In short as the very accessible all-around startup guy. I first met him as CEO of Koral, a startup later acquired by Salesforce.com.
Considering that he [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Entrepreneurship, grp partners, koral, mark suster, salesforce.com, startups, thefunded, vc, vc funding, Venture Capital
By Phil Wainewright on January 29, 2010
With a crop of Europe-based SaaS ventures expanding into the US, the forming of a new industry group and signs of new funding opportunties for smaller European start-ups, the omens look good for a flowering of SaaS and cloud adoption in Europe.
Posted in Business | Tagged Accel Partners, Cloud Computing, collaboration, europe, Index Ventures, Mimecast, software as a service, Venture Capital
By Michael Coté on January 16, 2010
Skinny jeans = skinny phones, IT spending uptick, a big Lotus win, work/life balance.
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Forrester, ibm, Numbers, Tesco, Venture Capital
By Phil Wainewright on January 15, 2010
I’ve never been comfortable with free products for business use, even though it’s difficult to avoid using them if you’re a small or one-person business (web analytics, for example, has been all but wiped out as a low-end paid service by Google’s free offering). As a long-term observer of the scene, my worry is that [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Models, Cloud Computing, freemium, google, Revenue, software as a service, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
By Brad Feld on January 13, 2010
On Friday I’ll be in LA at Mahalo headquarters at 1pm making a guest appearance on Jason Calacanis’s This Week In Startups show. I told Jason I’d be happy to discuss whatever he wanted to which I hope includes the Open Angel Forum, Startup Visa, Abolishing Software Patents, and all kinds of fun things around [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged conferences, Foundry Group, Jason Calacanis, Mahalo, StartupVisa, This Week In Startups, Venture Capital
By Chris Selland on January 12, 2010
Looks like there’s a good chance my predictions that Salesforce.com ($CRM) will get more aggressive on the M&A front in 2010 are coming true. Fellow Enterprise Irregular Larry Dignan has more details on the $500 million convertible bond issue.
Of course, $500M likely does not a ‘game changer’ acquisition buy, but it can certainly help fund [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged crm, EPAY, Mergers & Acquisitions, salesforce.com, SLRY, Uncategorized, Venture Capital, VOCS
