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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)