Silicon Flatirons Conference: The Role of Place: Entrepreneurial Immigration, Iteration, and Innovation

On Thursday, March 18th (during CU Entrepreneurship Week) there is going to be a great Silicon Flatirons Conference on “The Role of Place”.  Brad Bernthal, who is chairing the conference,

March 7, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Are Apple’s Competitors Stealing Its Patented Inventions?

The Apple patent suit against HTC really riled up my friend Sawyer.  I wasn’t planning on posting another missive from him until next week, but I thought this was particularly

March 4, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld

The Doubly-Linked List Appears to Have Been Patented

I saw a tweet today that said “The doubly-linked list, a structure I studied thirty years ago, has recently been patented.”  After giggling at the absurdity of the idea, I

March 3, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Sawyer Opines on the Eastern District of Texas

My friend Sawyer is back with another post in his series of talking about software patent issues.  As I mentioned before, Sawyer is a real person named after our intrepid

March 3, 2010 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Software Beats Network In My Book

Remember rock / paper / scissors?  It’s a beautiful kids game that unlike tic-tac-toe regularly results in a winner.  Paper always beats rock.  Rock always beats scissors.  Scissor

March 2, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Proliferation of Standardized Seed Financing Documents

As of today’s announcement that Ted Wang at Fenwick & West has collaborated with a group of bay area early stage VC’s and angel investors to create the Series Seed

March 1, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

New Orleans Rock ‘n’ Roll Mardi Gras Marathon

Marathon #15 is in the bag – I finished the New Orleans Rock ‘n’ Roll Mardi Gras Marathon in a time of 05:15:05 yesterday.  Here’s a video of me crossing

March 1, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Do You Know The Difference Between A Browser and a Search Engine?

Videos like this one remind me that I live in a very tiny corner of the universe. Only 8% of the people interviewed (out of a sample of over 50)

February 27, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Senator Lugar on CNBC Discussing the Startup Visa Act

February 26, 2010 · 0 min · Brad Feld

Startup Visa Twitter Widget

If you support the Startup Visa and have a blog or a website, put the Startup Visa Twitter Widget up on your site. And – on March 2nd at 12

February 25, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld