AI is the Big Data of 2019

I attended a Silicon Flatirons Artificial Intelligence Roundtable last week. Over the years Amy and I have sponsored a number of these and I always find the collection of people,

September 10, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Reid Hoffman on Bitcoin

I got the following email from Reid Hoffman this morning. Inspired by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, I produced a battle rap music video about centralized and decentralized currencies, pitting A

September 5, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Future Is Not What We Anticipate

My dad had his 60-year reunion at Columbia this weekend. He looks great. This morning, I did a talk with Om Malik at the Startup Iceland 2019 conference. Om was

June 3, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Public Service Announcement: Don't Look at the Web Today

I used to think April Fools Day was interesting. Companies and people brought out clever web jokes, many of them subtle and almost believable. Some were entertaining, some were cringeworthy,

April 1, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Software for Affinity Networks

I’m been looking around for software to help me manage an increasing number of affinity networks. These are networks that I’ve created around different topics, such as the books I’ve

March 23, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Dear Apple: Please Sync My Dock

Someone mentioned that Apple stock is having a difficult time right now, along with their Q4 performance, China strategy, and “let’s just raise the price on iPhones to make up

January 3, 2019 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Deleting Facebook

Yup. I’m done with Facebook. However, it’s tough to delete your account. Read the message above. I exited out of this screen, suspended my account instead, but then went back

August 16, 2018 · 3 min · Brad Feld

RSS: The Persistent Protocol

One of our themes is Protocol. We’ve been investing in companies built around technology protocols since 1994. One of my first investments, when I moved to Boulder in 1995, was

August 15, 2018 · 3 min · Brad Feld

A Major Breakdown In Our Collective Intelligence

Yesterday’s post Relentlessly Turning Input Knobs To 0 generated a bunch of interesting private comments. It also generated a few public ones, including the link to the article What is the probl

July 10, 2018 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The New Gmail For 2018

Ahhhh. The new Gmail client for the web is finally here. And a lot of things are fixed. The two things I like the best are really simple but dramatically increase

May 7, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld