As a VC who has been blogging for a long time I’ve been fascinated by the VC Blogger phenomenon. I’ve been subscribing to, reading, forwarding, occasionally commenting, and setting up networks of feeds for a while. With the relaunch of AsktheVC we’ve resurrected something we used to do periodically which is highlight a great VC post. However, we are taking a different tact this time around with our new motto. ...
At Brad Feld’s Amazing Deals , we only bring you shiny happy deals. If you are a Mac user and like to live in a mail client instead of a browser, Sparrow Mail is for you. I paid $10 when it came out but through the magic of daily deals am making it available for $5 for the next 24 hours (up to 1000 copies). Jason Calacanis even loves it – on G+ he says: ...
On my run today I was thinking about GP – LP interactions. This line of thought was prompted by a contrast between two interactions, or rather one interaction and one non-interaction, that I’ve had in the past few days. The interaction was I had with one of my LPs over the last 24 hours. They emailed asking for a reference on someone who indicated they knew me and had invested with me. I didn’t know the person, but knew a few people who did, and quickly sent emails getting addition info for my LP. With a small amount of effort I was able to generate some useful feedback, including triangulating on the deal he was suggesting we were investors in together (it was a true statement prospectively as it’s something I’m working on.) I was also able to get some specific one degree of separation feedback for my LP. ...
Today on Brad Feld’s Amazing Deals I’ve got a great offer for anyone with a touchscreen device. The deal is for Joystickers – sticky arcade buttons you put on your touchscreen to make games easier to play. Joystickers is one of the Excelerate Summer 2011 companies (Excelerate is a TechStars Network member) – I met with them a few weeks ago and loved what they are doing. You can buy three buttons for $9 (normally $20), or five buttons for $13 (normally $34). My friends at Joystickers have even agreed to throw in free shipping. ...
Clint Nelson, co-founder of Startup Weekend , is bringing the European tomato-chucking phenomena stateside. Today on Brad Feld’s Amazing Deals , you can get a half price ticket to the innagural Tomato Battle – A Huge Tomato Fight. The event is at Copper Mountain on June 25th. Get there at 1pm for beer and music. Start chucking tomatoes at 3pm. Bring an extra set of clothes. Your ticket gets you in the event and one free beer. There will be thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of pounds of tomatoes. If you are one of my Boulder readers, or plan on being in the area June 25th, go to Copper Mountain and have a blast throwing tomatoes at people you don’t know. ...
Microsoft Excel and our brains have a lot in common. We all use them, but only to about 10% capacity. Today I’m offering a solution on Brad Feld’s Amazing Deals from a startup called Excel Everest . These guys can teach you how to use Excel by offering a 20 hour interactive tutorial on the fine points of spreadsheets. Their class is normally $35, but through the magic of daily deals, I’m bringing it to you for only $14 (PC / Windows only). Think of it as getting a class on Excel from my partner Seth , who is the best Excel god I know, for only $0.70 / hour. ...
I spent a full day at MIT last month rolling around in a bunch of really cool tech. One of the meetings led to today’s Brad Feld Amazing Deal for OoOTies. I had just sat through three meetings with MIT-related entrepreneurs – two who showed me new human instrumentation products and one who walked me through a new way to develop Android apps. The guy for my next meeting showed up, sat down, and started talking about bow ties. He was an MIT grad student who had become fascinated with bow ties and subsequently created a company called OoOTies along with an iPhone app . We had a fun conversation and then it was time for my next meeting. ...
I’ve got an entrepreneur focused deal on Brad Feld’s Amazing Deals today. The deal is for Udemy.com , a website that has online courses on a variety of interesting topics. When Udemy came to me, they were interested in offering a deal on one of their $99 courses that was pertinent to startups. After some negotiation, we decided to do an offer where you get their five top startup courses, priced at a total of over $400, for only $59. ...
It’s Tuesday, and that means it’s time for another Brad Feld’s Amazing Deal . I can’t help myself – it feels so satisfying to be a deal huckster. This week’s deal is for one year of web hosting from Cloud Jolt . Cloud Jolt is a hosting company focused on the tech entrepreneur. If you are in the market for a new host, thinking of starting a web company, or need to expand your blog, you should give these guys a try. $39 gives you a year of hosting, which saves you $60 bucks (it’s normally $96). That’s a little over $3 a month for the first year. Pretty hard to beat. ...
My latest foray into the Daily Deal universe is up – and it’s a 50% offer on Manpacks. If you are a guy and aren’t familiar with Manpacks, it’s an easy way to get essentials (undies, socks, razors) mailed to you every few months. Why spend time shopping for undies and socks when you can climb mountains, slay dragons, and conquer the world? If you area a girl and are tired of your guy wearing tired, worn out undies, a Manpack makes a perfect gift. ...