The Lights in the Tunnel

I read a fascinating book yesterday called The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future by Martin Ford.  I can’t remember who sent it

January 3, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld

You Don’t Mean Average, You Mean Median

Every quarter, without fail, a bunch of articles appear talking about the venture capital industries investment pace as a result of the PWC MoneyTree report.  I used to get calls

January 2, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld

My 2009 By The Numbers

Last year I did an obsessive experiment.  Every morning, as one of the tabs in my browser (then Firefox, now Chrome) during my daily information routine, I opened up a

January 1, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Mike Wallace Interviews Ayn Rand About Objectivism

My dad sent me an incredible thirty minute interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace in 1959 which I just watched on my iPhone during a treadmill run.  I’m a

December 31, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

What Is The Definition of An Angel Investor?

Yesterday I had a good conversation with Nivi, the co-author of the great Venture Hacks blog.  He recently added me to AngelList, a directory of angel and seed investors that

December 30, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Snow and Ski Data for Colorado

At my last Boulder Community Hours (or Random Day, or Bunker Hours, or whatever the latest branding of “office hours” is), I spent 15 minutes with Joel Gratz who runs

December 29, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Where Do My Music Rights Start and Stop?

Last night I had a long ranging conversation with Amy and a pair of close friends about the singularity and the future of human and machine.  The conversation centered around

December 28, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Amazing RedLaser

We’ve run TechStars in Boulder for three years.  So far each year at least one of the teams ends up with a runaway success on a bootstrapped business.  In year

December 27, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

My Mom In Kindergarten and Some of Her Photographs

Speaking of brilliant photographs, my mom sent me two yesterday.  The first one is her dressed in PJ’s reciting “Twas the Night Before Christmas” to her kindergarten class.  I remember

December 26, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

An Honorable Run and American Power

When I’m at my house in Keystone, I work my way through my infinite pile of physical books rather than reading on my Kindle.  It’s always a mystery as to

December 26, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld