I Don't Understand Our US Immigration Policy

Reuters had an article out today titled US reaches visa cap, skilled workers out of luck. As someone who is constantly trying to recruit great software developers for companies I’m

April 5, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Berkshire Hathaway's 2006 Chairman's Letter

I’m a huge Warren Buffett fan and have been for as long as I can remember. Buffett has recently posted his annual blog post (also known as the Berkshire Hathaway’s

March 26, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Fear of Failure

Dick Costolo, the CEO of FeedBurner, has another awesome post up titled Too Many Companies?? He starts with the observation: “There aren’t “too many companies in the market rig

March 15, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Fear of Failure's Impact on Success

Jason Wood has an interesting post up titled Failure: Can fearing it impede professional greatness? It’s consistent with the title of his blog (The Ponderings of Woodrow) – really go

March 11, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Succeeding by Failing

Business 2.0 has a good article titled A startup’s best friend? Failure. on how to succeed by paying attention and responding to failure. Dogster, Google, and Riya (Like.com) are pro

February 28, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

How Many Founders Does A Startup Need?

I love my NewsGator and Technorati key word search feeds – they help me find the most interesting things. A NewsGator key word search on “Ryan McIntyre” picked up this

February 25, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Don't Be Casual

Coming out of the Venture Capital in the Rockies conference, I was pleasantly surprised with how solid most of the presentations were. There was plenty of pre-conference preparation, practice, a

February 22, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Stepping in Shit

It happens all the time. You do something, don’t think hard about the implications of it, and then realize that you’ve “stepped in shit.” I can’t count the nu

February 20, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

JetBlue Needs Winston Wolf

Last night at dinner Howard, Jason, Amy, Elizabeth, and I were discussing the JetBlue meltdown from last week (that continues today.) The most bizarre thing to me was the relatively

February 19, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Failing to Address a Point of Pain

A reader pointed me at this good, short post describing the shutdown of a service. Failure is a part of the entrepreneurial experience and it’s even more valuable (although not

February 2, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld