Help Reform Computer Science Education

Regular readers of this blog know that I’m Chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology.  In five years, NCWIT has become a prominent national organization helping encou

December 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Short URL’s Are Entertainingly Out of Control

I’m really pleased that FeedBurner has finally implemented a Socialize feature.  With a few settings, I can now connect my Twitter account to my FeedBurner profile and, when I post

December 19, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Score Two Wins Against Software Patents

I have to keep reminding myself that some things just take a long time.  My rampage against software patents continues and, while my efforts around the StartupVisa have dominated my

December 18, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Jack Bauer vs. Santa Claus

I really miss Jack Bauer.  Hopefully he’ll be back on my giant screen in my living room soon.  In the mean time he interrogates Santa Claus. You can see that

December 18, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

TechStars Seattle

Yesterday, TechStars announced that it is a launching a new program in Seattle.  This will be the third program that TechStars runs – with the other two being in Boulder

December 17, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Beware the Hockey Stick in Your Budget

We are deep in budget season as the last board meeting of the year typically includes the 2010 Budget – or at least the “2010 Draft Budget” or “2010 Budget

December 16, 2009 · 4 min · Brad Feld

More On Human Instrumentation Around Sleep Data

I’ve introduced two new devices into my personal human instrumentation experiment.  In addition to my Zeo, I am now carrying around a FitBit and using a Withings scale.  I’ve discovered

December 15, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Feld on Investing and Newman on Entrepreneurship

Jon Hansen from PI Window on Business had so much fun with me a few weeks ago that he asked me to do another interview – this time on the

December 14, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

My Steel Balls By Mark Castator

I love having steel balls.   Amy and I discovered Mark Castator about a year ago.  He’s a Boulder based artist that does amazing stuff with steel.  Here’s a few

December 14, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Happy Honika

How to be a Jewish Star.  I feel like some potato latkes this morning.   When I was a kid, everyone said that Hanukkah was better than Christmas since we

December 14, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld