Ancient MS-DOS Tricks

I had a dream last night.  In it, I was sitting in front of an old PC.  I typed: c: cd\ copy con config.sys files=255 buffers=32 <ctrl-z> I can’t remember

August 26, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Challenge of The Ideal First Round Term Sheet

Suddenly the blogosphere is talking about the need for a standardized first round term sheet.  The latest iteration of this seems to have blossomed when TheFunded Founder Institute released a

August 25, 2009 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Mt. Democrat, Mt. Cameron and Mt. Lincoln

Dave Jilk, my first business partner (Feld Technologies) and I have settled into a nice annual tradition of climbing a 14er each August.  This year we climbed three in one

August 24, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

An Angel Investor Group Move That Makes Me Vomit

I’ve personally made around 75 angel investments during two periods of time – 1994 – 1997 and 2006 – 2007.  The first was the period of time after I had

August 24, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Security in the Cloud

In January, I made a seed investment in a company called Standing Cloud.  My premise was that as “cloud computing” proliferated, it’d be a total mess for the typical application

August 21, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Three Entrepreneurial Books To Read Before You Turn 21

I regularly get asked some variant of “what books would you recommend to an entrepreneur.”  I typically send a quick email answer along with a link to the list of

August 21, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Are You A Wall Street Analyst Who Hates His/Her Job?

Or were you recently fired or laid off?  Or are you an analyst (especially someone in the typical two year pre-business school programs) at a consulting firm that hates your

August 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

An Example of Failing At Marketing Using Twitter

I don’t know who’s managing the District 9 twitter marketing campaign, but their abuse of twitter (via their creation of Twam – “twitter spam”) just caused me to decide not

August 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

TechStars: Episode 12: The Beginning

One of my favorite lines from TechStars is that “investor day is just the beginning”.  In this great wrap up of the TechStars 2009 video series, David Cohen says it

August 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

It’s Finally Time to Get Under 200 Pounds

The DailyBurn Fitness Challenge started today.  For those of you that don’t know DailyBurn, it’s one of the TechStars Boulder 2008 companies (it used to be called Gyminee).  More on

August 17, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld