Entrepreneurs Unplugged with Tyler Tysdal

Monday night, I’ll again be the co-host of Entrepreneurs Unplugged where we will be interviewing Tyler Tysdal, the Managing Director of Mantucket Capital.  We’ll start at 6pm at the CU

March 11, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Negotiating an Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know

I know I owe everyone a follow up to my post from last week titled The Proliferation of Standardized Seed Financing Documents.  To the many of you out there that

March 11, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

Over the years, a number of companies I’ve been an investor in have had hackathons.  These are typically day long events where everyone in the company works on whatever cool

March 11, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

1-Click and Social Network Patents and a Jet Pack

Today, Amazon’s 1-Click patent was confirmed following a four year re-examination.  Amazon now has ownership of a highly controversial and very absurd patent which I hope will only be used

March 10, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The New Dork

These people are way cooler than I could ever be.  At least I have something to aspire to.

March 9, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Amazon Fires Its Affiliates in Colorado (Including Me) Because of Colorado HB 10-1193

I’ve been an Amazon Associate (Amazon’s affiliate program) for many years.  Today I got the following notice in my Amazon Associates account. and I woke up to the following email.

March 8, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Colorado Conservation Voters

One of the great things about living in Eldorado Springs, Colorado is interacting with nature on a daily basis. Protecting the environment has been a priority of mine for many

March 8, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Help Bring Google Fiber 1Gbps Network to Boulder

If you live in Boulder, it’s time to help bring the Google Fiber experiment to our awesome city.  A bunch of folks from all over Boulder are working on the

March 8, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

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