It wasn’t supposed to be out for another week, but real copies of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist have started showing up in people’s hands. It feels great to have the thing finally ship.

Several of our friends have already put up reviews on their blogs. Take a look at what Fred Wilson and Matt Blumberg have to say. In addition to a nice review, Matt played an important role in the book as he took on “The Entrepreneurs Perspective” and wrote a bunch of sidebars which give the entrepreneurs view on the perspective that we had on various issues.

You’ll start to see regular posts again on this blog. Over the next few weeks we’ll give you a summary of each chapter along with some special bonus material. We’ve also started up a VC Blog Post of the Day – now that there are 9,415 VC bloggers, we’ll read all the posts and pick out the best one each day – so you don’t have to. Of course, if you are a VC and don’t think we are reading your posts (everyone we read is listed in the right sidebar under VC Bloggers), drop Brad an email and he’ll add you to the list.