Startup CEO, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

The list of people to thank for their role in the development of this book is long but it has to start with my long‐time board member and friend, Brad Feld. Brad and I started our respective blogs, Feld Thoughts (www.feld.com) and Only Once (www.onlyonceblog.com) on the same day – May 10, 2004 – sitting next to each other in our shared office space in Superior, Colorado, and trying to figure out how to use Typepad templates. Brad has been a great friend and valuable business partner for more than a decade now. When Brad started writing books with John Wiley & Sons as his publisher, we had a conversation about my someday writing a book inspired by the content of my blog. I was one of the many contributors to his first book, Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup; then when he asked me to read a draft of his second book, Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer or Your Venture Capitalist, I returned the manuscript with a markup that became a series of about 40 or 50 sidebars called “The Entrepreneur's Perspective.” Brad got good feedback on those contributions from many of his readers and introduced me to his publishing team at Wiley about this book, and the rest is history. Brad offered a number of valuable insights on this book as well as helping me navigate the publishing process along the way, and he did so a second time for this second edition.

I would like to acknowledge the rest of our board as well for their contributions to my ...