Help Teaching Programming to a Teenager

I’m looking for ideas about different sources – online, books, and software – for helping a teenager learn how to program. I’m looking for both introductory / early progr

July 25, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Pay Attention to Dollars

If you liked my post titled The Three Constituencies, you should read Stan James followup post titled Attention to Dollars, And Other Exchanges. Stan is the founder of a cool

July 20, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Social Media Press Release

On page 16 of the July 3rd BusinessWeek, I noticed a short article in the Wired Life section titled “Teaching The Press Release A New Trick.” I was kind of

July 16, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Three Constituencies

No – this isn’t going to be a post about the father, the son, and the holy ghost. I’ve done a number of investments in the past few years that

July 14, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Sketch An Image – Match It On Flickr

Niel Robertson just pointed me at retrievr. It’s pretty cool – you do a quick sketch and it searches Flickr and matches it to images. You can also upload a

July 12, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Testing Writely Posting To Movable Type

Jim and I are using Writely to collaborate on our Board of Directors series. I had some character interpretation problems between Writely and Movable Type – they were similar to

July 11, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Speaking of Patents

No – I haven’t read it yet (just the summaries.) Yes – I probably will (read it.) However – until then – Chris Pirillo has the best word on the Friendste

July 11, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

More on Abolishing Software Patents

The partners of Union Square Ventures (Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham) recently had a “Union Square Session” on “Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy.” In these

July 11, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The New Public Company Option Pricing Strategy

Quest Software has been competing with Mercury Interactive for a number of years. In the past, several of Quest’s strategic moves clearly positioned it as a alternative to Mercury. H

July 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Wimbledon on the Computer

We’re at our house in Homer which doesn’t have a TV (by design). Amy loves watching tennis and wanted to watch Wimbledon. Our Tivo at our house in Boulder broke

July 10, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld