What I Read On My Q409 Vacation

Amy and I just had an awesome week (mostly) off the grid at the Rosewood Mayakoba for my 44th birthday.  Lots of sleeping, running, massages, eating, consensual activities between two

December 5, 2009 · 5 min · Brad Feld

TechStars, StartUp Visa, iRobot Looj, and Cornell

You may be thinking “what do these things have to do with one another?”  Well – they are all in my browser this morning after I returned from my run

November 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Zeitoun

Over the weekend, I read what I think is going to be my “best book of the year.”  It’s Zeitoun by Dave Eggars of McSweeney’s fame. Some people just know

November 17, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Chaos That Is Today

Wow – I guess Web 2.0 is happening somewhere (fortunately I have a delegate there – my partner Ryan McIntyre).  That not withstanding, the tempo of stuff going on today

October 21, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Some Weekend Reading For You

Periodically I get way behind on my “daily routine” and skip my RSS feeds for a while (up to a week).  This week was one of them – I had

October 17, 2009 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Why I Read Science Fiction

Yesterday morning I spent the day at my semi-annual MIT Sloan Executive Advisory Board meeting.  During breaks, I got into two separate conversations about a book I read last week

September 18, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Three Entrepreneurial Books To Read Before You Turn 21

I regularly get asked some variant of “what books would you recommend to an entrepreneur.”  I typically send a quick email answer along with a link to the list of

August 21, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A Random Hodgepodge of Daily Reading

Tired of the health care debate?  There’s a ton of other great stuff out there today.  Here’s some of the things I came across on my Sunday morning pre-run scan

August 16, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book: Computing in the Middle Ages

The book I read tonight – Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983 by Severo Ornstein – stood out in stark contrast to the book I

July 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Mastering A Genre – Book: The Accidental Billionaires

Yesterday afternoon I read Ben Mezrich’s latest book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal.  I downloaded it on my Kindle yesterday

July 19, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld