Book: The Thank You Economy

Gary Vaynerchuk’s new book The Thank You Economy came out today. Gary sent me an uncorrected manuscript a few weeks ago and I read it the night I got it.

March 8, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Does Moore's Law Suddenly Matter Less?

A post in the New York Times this morning asserted that Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law. It’s a short post, but the money quote is from Ed Lazowska at the

March 8, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Update on Feld Gelt

Wow – that was cool. Thanks for the help with the experiment in the post How To Score 30 Minutes With Me. Tons of great feedback – both in the

March 7, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

TechStars 2011 Startup Madness Tournament

Who said March Madness was only for college basketball fans? I’m a proud nerd, am pretty good at basketball, but my college team (MIT) never ahem did much in March

March 7, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

How To Score 30 Minutes With Me

Long ago I concluded that life is just a video game. We fly on airplanes to get mileage points so we can get free stuff and or level up to

March 6, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

An Amazing Deal on Manpacks

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

March 3, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Deciding Not To Do Something

My partners at Foundry Group and I decided not to do something after a month of thoughtful deliberation. The decision is fresh so I’m not going to talk about the

March 2, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Starting-Up In America

If you’ve been following the Startup Visa, you may know that the bills that were submitted in both the House and the Senate expired at the end of the 2010

March 1, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Crowdsourcing The Title of My Next Book

My partner Jason Mendelson and I are in the final stretch of writing a new book. The project started as an extension of our Term Sheet series and Letter of

February 28, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Signal vs. Noise

At the end of each day, I encourage you to reflect on whether you spent your day on “signal” or “noise.” Let me explain. Recently, I wrote a post titled

February 27, 2011 · 5 min · Brad Feld