Startup Visa End of Year Update

As we finish up the year, I’m really pleased with the progress the Startup Visa gang is making.  I started thinking about, writing, and working on this on 9/10/09 when

December 23, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Startup Visa OpEd in the Wall Street Journal

After having a few conversations yesterday about the Startup Visa, I realized that I never posted the Wall Street Journal OpEd on the Startup Visa that Paul Kedrosky and I

December 23, 2009 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Downsides of Large Syndicates

There were some great comments on my post from Sunday titled Being Syndication Agnostic.  One of them was from Kevin Vogelsang – he asked the following question: What are the

December 22, 2009 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Wi-Fi on Airplanes Finally Coming

I’m not on an airplane again until 2010 (1/6/10 to be exact when I head to Las Vegas for CES) which is a relief since I flew 87 segments 2009.

December 21, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Being Syndication Agnostic

Bijan Sabet started it with a great post titled We Gotta Do A Deal Together and Fred Wilson followed with an equally great post titled Trading Deals, A Lost Art?

December 20, 2009 · 5 min · Brad Feld

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