Josh Kopelman on “Catch and Release” vs. “Catch and Keep”
Josh Kopelman has today’s best post with “Catch and Release” Business Models. It even has some pretty charts. It’s a must read for anyone doing anything with social networks.
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Author: Brad Feld
Fred Wilson on Reserves
Today’s “Great VC Post” comes from Fred Wilson and is on the concept of how a VC thinks about “reserves.” Fred is very specific in the post about how his firm (Union Square Ventures) thinks about reserves.
Is Quality of The Team The Most Important Thing?
Question: When you evaluate startups to invest in what are the key qualities and what emphasis do you place on it? Is management as high as 50% or more? Every young venture capitalist learns several cliches about how important either (a) the team is or (b) the idea is. Unfortunately for the young venture capitalist, […]
Communicating with Your Angel Investors
Question: Hey Guys, I’m new to the CEO gig and want to keep my angel investors informed with some sort of regular communication…Maybe a quarterly or even monthly letter. What kind of things should I put into it? What are they going to want to hear about? How do I keep from saying something stupid, […]
Book Review: Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation
I read a lot. I often review books on my Feld Thoughts site but Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation by Andrew Metrick seemed more appropriate for AsktheVC. If you are interested in how venture capital works, this is a superb book. It’s broken into four parts – the first two are invaluable, the third […]
A Founders View on Stock Vesting
(Brad) Dave Naffzinger has another excellent post up on Startup Stock Options titled Vesting Schedules & Acceleration. I’ve written about vesting plenty of times and gotten plenty of comments thanking me for the VC view but suggesting that the entrepreneurs view might be different. Dave is a co-founder and early employee of several companies – […]
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