Oblong – An Example of Investing In The Future

We’ve been investors in Oblong since 2007 and I’ve talked about them regularly on this blog including a post titled I’ve Seen The Future from my first meeting with them.

November 2, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Maniacal Crazy People

Three of my VC friends (Santo Politi, Mark Suster, and Kate Mitchell) were on Fox Business’ Capitalist Ad”Ventures” series.  The underlying theme of this segment was the characteristics of entrep

October 31, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Home Networking Is A Crappy Phrase

We spend a lot of time talking about “computers in the home” as part of our Digital Life theme.  Over the past year, I’ve heard the phrase “Home Networking” with

October 30, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurs Unplugged – Steve Halstedt and Nir Barkat

There are two CU Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged events next week – one on Monday November 2nd at CU Boulder in Atlas Room 100 and one on Wednesday November 4th

October 30, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Oblong on Bloomberg Innovators

Bloomberg TV is running a show called Bloomberg Innovators.  One of our portfolio companies – Oblong – is the focus of the first episode that airs this Friday (10/30) on

October 29, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Snow Day In Eldorado Springs

In case you were wondering what the Boulder Snowstorm resulted in (so far – it’s still coming down) at my house in Eldorado Springs, here you go! So there is

October 29, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Add Another Zero

Talking about scale and growth is hard.  Many people talk in percentages in pre-determined time periods (e.g. let’s grow revenue 100% next year).  I find this to be relatively useless. 

October 28, 2009 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Time To Sign Up For Defrag

The Defrag Conference in Denver is just around the corner – November 11 and 12 to be exact.  Eric Norlin has put together a remarkable agenda for this one including

October 27, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Wonder Where I Am?

One of the challenges of living your life out in the open is signaling where you are going to be.  I’ve struggled with this on and off, tried a bunch

October 27, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

It’s Not My Company

VCs say a lot of stupid things.  I’m guilty of it plenty and whenever someone calls me on it I try to acknowledge and change.  One that I try really

October 23, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld