Be Your Own Lobbyist – Donate to the Startup Visa Initiative

The Startup Visa movement is picking up a lot of speed.  I’ve had more positive conversations about it than I have about any other government related thing I’ve been involved

September 28, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

@2gov and The Founders Visa Movement

I received an overwhelming response to my post last week titled The Founders Visa Movement. There were tons of comments – both positive and negative (many constructive on both sides),

September 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Founders Visa Movement

In April, Paul Graham wrote an inspired post titled The Founder Visa.  In it he proposed the idea of creating a US Visa for founders of startup companies – 10,000

September 10, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Freshman: The Similarities Between College and Congress

I’m really proud of my Congressman Jared Polis.  Jared was one of the first people I met when I moved to Colorado in 1995 (we met in early 1996) and

February 2, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

An Apple in the White House?

Today’s Washington Post article titled Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages was no big surprise.  However, while I was taking a shower (in a hotel in the Houston

January 22, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A Few Requests for President-elect Obama

I’ve been an unabashed Obama supporter for a while.  I’m glad he’s going to be our next president and am optimistic about his leadership.  I’ve been enjoying listenin

November 13, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Tom Evslin for FCC Chairman

I didn’t come up with this idea – Om Malik did.  But he’s absolutely right – Obama needs to look outside the beltway for many key positions, including FCC Chair.

November 11, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Wake Up. Be Optimistic. Lead.

Fred Wilson has the best post I’ve read so far from the 700 of so feeds I follow on how he feels about the election.  It’s titled Barack Hussein Obama,

November 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

It's The Economy, Stupid

Where is James Carville when you need him?  Finally, Obama is taking a line from Clinton’s playbook.

October 6, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

It's Probably More Complicated Than You Think

Santo Politi has a great post up today titled Election 2008 and Price of Crude.  We were in a meeting together today and he mentioned it (but didn’t mention the

September 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld