How Federal Government Can Help Entrepreneurship

This afternoon in Boulder I’ll be on a panel as part of the White House Startup America Roundtable. If you weren’t invited to the event, there is a web site

May 9, 2011 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Why Panels Suck And My New Approach To Panels

I’ve been getting at least one invitation a day to speak on at a conference or on a panel. My general rule is to only say yes when it intersects

May 7, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Gnip Is On Fire

One of my favorite times for me in the life of a company is when it finds its sweet spot and really turns on the juice. Over the past year,

May 5, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

I Love Google's Style

Today Google announced that they had now raised the limit on number of contacts to 25,000 (from 10,000) for all Gmail users (including Google Apps users.)  Boom – done –

May 4, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Flying Software Engineers To Boulder For Startup Week

Boulder is full of software engineers, but we need more. A lot more. So, several local companies pitched in some bucks and the organizers of Boulder Startup Week are buying

May 3, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Quit Sucking At Excel

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

May 3, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Marathon #16: Cincinnati Flying Pig

It wasn’t pretty, but I got it done. Marathon #16 was the Cincinnati Flying Pig and was the first marathon I’ve done in over a year. My march toward a

May 1, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurs and #RubyRiot In Boston

If I’ve learned one thing in my life, it’s that nothing is static. Periodically the meme surfaces that “the only place you can create a great software / Internet company

April 28, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Another Day, Another Need In Boulder For iOS and Android Devs

Orbotix, one of our investments (and a TechStars Boulder 2010 company) is looking for an iOS and an Android developer. If you don’t know Orbotix, they make Sphero, the robotic

April 27, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Learning the Right Lessons from the Amazon Outage

As most nerds know, Skynet gained self-awareness last week and decided as its first act to mess with Amazon Web Services, creating havoc for anyone that wanted to check-in on

April 25, 2011 · 9 min · Brad Feld