eBay's Minor Patent Victory

John Funk, a partner in Evergreen Innovation Partners, recently had a nice summary of the minor victory eBay just had in at the Supreme Court in the universe of defending

May 18, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Video Copyright and YouTube – I'm So Confused

After listening to I’m The Decider, I decided I wanted to go find something on the Stephen Colbert 2006 White House Correspondent’s Dinner Roast. So – I went to del.

May 13, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Web 2.0: The First 25,000 Users Are Irrelevant

For the past few months, whenever I talk to someone about a Web 2.0 application and hear that they already have “10,000 users”, I’ve been telling that them the first

May 12, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Norms-based IP and French Chefs

As you probably know from prior rants on this blog, I think the U.S. Patent System is completely screwed up, especially with regards to software patents. Since I’m in Paris

May 10, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Abolish Software Patents

I spoke on a panel last week at the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program titled “Re-examining The Patent System.” My panel was the last one and came after a few hours

April 10, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Microsoft I-pod Pro 2005 XP

The difference between Microsoft and Apple is clearly explained in this 2 minute and 55 second video on Google.

March 20, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Top 16 Technology Acquirers

As part of my fantabulous week off, I caught up on some reading that had been sitting in my “to read” email folder. Nine months ago I posted a chart

March 17, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

PWC Nextwave and Podcast Roundtable

PriceWaterhouseCoopers just released their quarterly issue of Nextwave. The headline article is Web 2.0: The Internet subset formerly known as the Web and features comments from a number of peop

March 11, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

HiveLive – Well – That Was Fast

The 100 HiveLive invitations that I wrote about yesterday are gone. Hopefully some of you will post some comments about what you like and don’t like.

March 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

HiveLive Invitations

We fund plenty of things that are ahead of their time. Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. DoDots – a company started by John and George Kembal – was one

March 9, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld