TEDxBoulder is 8 days away. It’s going to be another huge event and there are just a few seats left. If you don’t have yours yet, you should hurry it up already before it’s too late. Check out those speakers! I also just wanted to give a quick shout out to Andrew Hyde and his …
I’ve been running Techstars for six years now. I’ve watched eleven batches of companies interact with hundreds of mentors. Because of that mentorship (focused on amazingly talented companies) we’ve seen those companies go on to raise about $100M in funding (averaging about $1M each post Techstars). In that time, I’ve witnessed thousands of mentor interactions, …
Venture Deals: “How to be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist” totally rocks. Here are the top ten reasons. It took me forever to boil this list down from about 30 reasons. 10. It’s written in plain English. When I first started angel investing, it took me a long time to understand term sheets …
I’m trying to decide between 3 photos to pick the headshot that I’m going to use in the future. Which do you like best? #1 #2 or #3?
I’m excited to announce that Open Angel Forum is back in Boulder on the night of August 3rd at 6PM. The Open Angel Forum (OAF) is dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with free and open access to the angel investors that they need. We are firmly committed to fighting against “pay-to-pitch” schemes. This is the fourth …
When Brad Feld and I wrote “Do More Faster” we included a chapter called “Beware of Angel Investors Who Aren’t.” This chapter was selected as one of ten chapters used to promote the book, and was therefore publicly available on its own and out of context to the entire chapter on fundraising. Christopher Mirabile called …