Getting a New Receptionist with TextUs.Biz

While I have nothing against receptionists, I’ve always felt like it was a thankless job that should be able to easily be replaced by the machines. Many of the people

November 12, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Hangout On Air With Me and David Cohen on Wed 11/13/13

David Cohen (Techstars Founder) and I are doing a Google Hangout On Air that is open to anyone on 11/13/13 (what a prime day for something like this). It’s part of

November 12, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book: Hatching Twitter

I was in a reading mood this weekend so I read Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal after reading No Better Time on Saturday. I finished

November 11, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book: No Better Time

I’ve been reading a lot lately. On an almost daily basis, someone out in the world sends me a physical book, which I love. While I have something like 500

November 10, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

What I Learned From The First Time I Was Fired

I was fired from my first two jobs. Here’s the story of one of them, which first appeared as part of LinkedIn’s My First Job content package. “You’re fired.” Those

November 8, 2013 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Do You Want To Build Robots?

One of the companies I’m an investor in, Modular Robotics, just launched a Kickstarter campaign around its new product MOSS. It’s amazing. Definitely a “show not tell” so I enc

November 7, 2013 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Funding Computer Science Education In NY

Last week Fred and Joanne Wilson announced that they are helping create a $5m seed fund to invest in computer science education in the NYC public school system. A few weeks

November 4, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Juxtaposition of Humility and Arrogance

I woke up this morning at 5am this morning determined that – if nothing else – I’d get a run in today. After procrastinating until almost 7am, I got out

November 4, 2013 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Return of Random Day

I woke up late today (yay – 12:06 hours of sleep) to the last 15 minutes of the elite women in the NYC Marathon. Watching them finish and then watching

November 3, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Parkland and Growing Up In Dallas

I spent the day yesterday as Cookie Monster and by the time it got dark I’d had enough of Halloween so Amy and I watched Parkland last night. The reviews

November 1, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld