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

Video Interview: We Suck Less

Steve Bell of Startup Trek came to Boulder about a month ago and did an interview with a bunch of Boulder people, including me.  Following is part one (12 minutes)

January 28, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A Scorecard For Boston’s Innovation Economy

Over the past eighteen months I’ve gotten to know Bill Warner through my work with the Boston program of TechStars.  Bill was a well known entrepreneur when I lived in

January 26, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

It’s So Hard When Contemplated In Advance And So Easy When You Do It

I heard this phrase at about 75 minutes into my run this morning.  It’s from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a book I’ve read a half dozen times

January 25, 2010 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Procrastinating On A Sunday Afternoon

While the rest of the US is watching football, I thought I’d sit quietly at my house and catch up on some writing, most notably what David Cohen, Entrepreneur Magazine,

January 24, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

NewsGator Acquires Tomoye

My friends at NewsGator had a great 2009 – enterprise social computing came into its own and they were at the front of the pack.  If an organization uses SharePoint

January 21, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld