Startups at 351 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA

Scott Kirsner had a fun article in Boston.com today titled The Red Line Tour of Innovation in Boston. Several of the stops were regularly hang outs of mine between 1983

February 10, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Example of Rally Software Building A Great Company

Lots of little things go into building a great company over the long term.  Rally Software is one that I’m proud to have been involved in from the beginning.  I

February 8, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Open Angel Forum Is Off To A Great Start

When I wrote my post titled An Angel Investor Group Move That Makes Me Vomit I expected to write my little rant and be done with it.  A month or

February 7, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

SnapCamp in Boulder – All for Good and Lots of Fun

I think Boulder is one of the absolute best places to start a tech company. The depth of talent and overall strength of our tech community here is superb. It

February 5, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Immigrant Startup Founders – Tell Us Your Story

As the Startup Visa initiative continues to pick up momentum, we are now collecting stories from immigrants who have either started or tried to start their company in the US.

February 4, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Learn How Filtrbox Got A Yellow TechStars Shirt

Whenever a TechStars company is acquired, they get a yellow shirt with their number on the back.  Last month Fitrbox, a TechStars Boulder 2007 company, was acquired by Jive Software.

February 4, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

We Need More Female IT Leaders

Vivek Wadhwa has a strong article in BusinessWeek today titled Addressing the Dearth of Female Entrepreneurs.  He makes the argument that “There are too few women running high-tech companies; tha

February 4, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Be the CEO of Your Job

Sometimes a person says one sentence that just sticks with you and is so perfect that it defines a whole category of behavior.  Mark Pincus, the CEO of Zynga, riffed

February 2, 2010 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Burning Mercedes

Help me get my photo of Amy’s Burning Mercedes up on Fail Blog.  All you have to do is click through on the picture below and vote for it.  moar

January 31, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Do Patents Slow Down Innovation?

I had a very interesting meeting yesterday with an MIT Professor who I’ve known for a long time.  He is anti-software patent, as am I.  However, he suggested something I

January 30, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld