@2gov and The Founders Visa Movement

I received an overwhelming response to my post last week titled The Founders Visa Movement. There were tons of comments – both positive and negative (many constructive on both sides),

September 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Why I Read Science Fiction

Yesterday morning I spent the day at my semi-annual MIT Sloan Executive Advisory Board meeting.  During breaks, I got into two separate conversations about a book I read last week

September 18, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Gist Is Now Available to All

For those of you that are regular readers, you know how excited I am about Gist, an investment we made earlier this year.  On Tuesday Gist launched their open beta

September 17, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Huffington Post Shows Up In Boulder/Denver With Substance

The Huffington Post launched their Denver channel today (but I’m going to call it the Boulder/Denver channel because it’s really both.)  And they launched with a bunch of great, substantive

September 16, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

MassTLC Innovation 2009 Unconference – 10/1/09

When I was last on the grid, I was returning to NY from Boston on the Acela Express after the first TechStars Boston Investor Day.  It was a tremendous experience

September 16, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Founders Visa Movement

In April, Paul Graham wrote an inspired post titled The Founder Visa.  In it he proposed the idea of creating a US Visa for founders of startup companies – 10,000

September 10, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

My Bathroom Gets Papered In Forbes

A month or so ago I got a voicemail from William Barrett at Forbes.  His message was something like “call me back – I want to talk to you about

September 10, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Why Did Microsoft License Exchange ActiveSync to Apple?

While I’m delighted that my iPhone syncs with my Exchange Server, I’ve been struggling to figure out why Microsoft licensed ActiveSync to Apple (and Google).  For a long time, I

September 8, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

PeeTweet

I had a great flight home from LA on Southwest Airlines on Friday.  My boycott on United has been going pretty well, but Amy and I are flying on it

September 7, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Boulder Helps Create SnapImpact

Some folks from the Boulder startup community came together last August to see who could eat the most sushi. I participated in the Sushi Regurge, but (as I promised Amy)

September 6, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld