Serious Questions For Super Angels

Following is a post on super angels I wrote yesterday for PEHub. In the beginning, there were angel investors. And it was good. As individual angel investors made more and

September 1, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Have We Reached The Software Patent Tipping Point?

We’ve shifted into a new zone in the world of software patent stupidity.  A few weeks ago, Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents they got when they

August 30, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

What Should You Do When Your Web Service Blows Up?

Every major software or web company I’ve ever been involved in has had a catastrophic outage of some sort.  I view it as a rite of passage – when this

August 30, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Attracting Smart People To Your Community Accelerates Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial communities grow up around smart people.  Whenever someone in state or local government asks me what they can do to accelerate entrepreneurship, I always tell them to put as

August 29, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

More Women In Tech Discussions

The blogo-twitter-sphere erupted this weekend in response to an article in the WSJ on Friday titled Addressing The Lack Of Women Leading Tech Start-ups. I missed most of it as

August 29, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Learning How A Bill Becomes A Law

Well, I’ve learned a lot about how a bill becomes a law on my journey to try to turn the Startup Visa idea into a law.  And yes – it’s

August 27, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

It's Time To Reinvent The Signature Page

Last night I printed, signed, scanned, and emailed two signature pages.  As is my custom of not keeping anything around, I tore up and tossed the sig pages and then

August 27, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Desperately Seeking Amazing UX Gurus in Boulder

There are two positions that I find difficult to fill in Boulder in the various companies we are investors in. The first is a real product manager (PM).  We’ve got

August 26, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Going Deeper Into The Google Apps Rabbit Hole

Today I concluded that my Gmail experiment is working nicely.  In addition, we figured out (thanks to Dave Michels) how to wire up feld.com to Google Apps without breaking all

August 25, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Control-Self-Delete

Sometimes Colbert is priceless.  Well – most of the time.  This one had Amy and I laughing hard today.  Enjoy your five minute break from monitoring your social media and

August 25, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld