I sold my first company basically from a cold call. To none other than Brad Feld. This was back in the days befores blogs. I would've killed for that kind of insight to how VCs think about investing back then. These kids today don't know how easy they've got it. ;)

Looks like a good bet. I know Brad is a sucker for metrics. Who coached them to put lots of charts in the pitch deck? ;)

Direct marketing tip: questions almost always drive action better than statements. It's a pattern interrupt. You could've left off the sentence that answered the question and let users go to the link to get the answer.

A lot of companies could double their open rates this simply by removing the word "newsletter" from the subject line of their their email marketing and replacing it with a question.

This looks cool from a hacker perspective, but I still haven't seen the killer use case. What do you use it for?

One more data point. Our business hasn't slowed down at all. February was a record month for us, even though only 28 days. March came awfully close to breaking it. Overall we are ahead of projections for 2009.

Oh and Michael we are part of Bill's empire and working toward building a sub-empire of our own.

I like most of this, but I call bullshit on the carried interest thing. The NVCA blows a bunch of smoke about how VCs create companies, but so do bond investors -- or do you think Level 3 didn't really use that money to create a company? And do you think maybe VCs might benefit from that leverage too?

You should only get taxed at the capital gains rate when there's a possiblity of capital loss. Carried interest doesn't even come close.

The royalty approach is a novel and underutilized one. Guerilla Financing is a great source of ideas like this.

This is brilliant. We've gotta try this immediately.

We hardly noticed a thing. If you go back to September 2008, four of the last eight months were record months for us (Sep inclusive). April was a record. Not just barely so, but by 18% over our previous record.

Yeah, no kidding. I want to hear about the Tribune. Why did he load it down with so much debt?