Let's Make Software Patents "Defensive Only"

In my quest to abolish software patents, I’ve been pondering "short term approaches" since I doubt the Supreme Court is going to wave a magic wand and make my fantasies

May 5, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

My Next Monitor

Whenever someone comes in my office that hasn’t seen me before, they always fawn over my monitor.  I enjoy my 30" Apple beast, even though it’s running Vista. Yes –

May 2, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

My New Skype Addiction

I am newly addicted to Skype.  Several weeks ago when I was in Keystone, I had total IP phone failure.  We use a Cisco IP phone system in our office.

April 28, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Dead Address Book Entries

I just did a search in my address book for someone and came up with the address book entry for someone I know that died last year. I was sad.

April 25, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

An Optimistic and Beautiful Story

I’ve gotten to know Alex Iskold over the past few years (I’m an angel investor in his latest company – AdaptiveBlue).  Alex has a huge brain that I always enjoy

April 15, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Your Analytics Data Is Very Wrong

I’ve written about this in the past so I expect this is nothing new for you, my dear reader.  The title summarizes everything I am going to say. My buddy

April 15, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Silliness-as-a-Service

With the sudden and ubiquitous emergence of PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), I thought I’d investigate several other "aaSes" as I always thought PaaS was something VC’s did. BaaS: T

April 13, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

96 Comments And Still Going

I was going to respond to Fred’s post We Need A New Path To Liquidity in between my elephant meeting and my rocket ship meeting but I ended up reading all

April 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Fred's Rant on Liquidity

Fred Wilson has an incredible post up this morning titled We Need A New Path To Liquidity.  I don’t agree with everything in it, but it’s a great, heartfelt post

April 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Sitemaps and Facebook

Smart move – I’ve been wondering when this would happen.  You can now SEO your Facebook applications with Sitemaps.  If you are a Facebook app developer, it’s well worth yo

March 27, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld