Rally Agile Success Tour Continues

My friends at Rally Software continue to grow like crazy.  As the Agile software development methodologies goes mainstream, Rally continues to lead the market in providing Agile application lifec

September 6, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Drumbeats Against Software Patents Are Getting Louder

There is a great article by Timothy Lee, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, out today titled The Case against Literary (and Software) Patents.  Lee, an adjunct scholar at

August 31, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Community Hours – Trying Something New for Random Meetings

I’ve been a long time practitioner of having “random meetings” where I meet with whomever wants to get together with me.  Some amazing things have come out of this over

August 27, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Calling All PPC Marketing Studs

My partner Seth wrote a short post earlier today about Trada titled Are you a PPC expert? Read on…  We funded Trada last year and Seth and I have an

August 27, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Cash For Bad Conference Wi-Fi

The Cash for Clunkers program worked – at least according to our government.  “The CARS program ended sales on the Monday night with nearly 700,000 clunkers taken off the roads,

August 27, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Your Morning Dose of Inspiration

Venrock – one of the oldest venture capital firms (40 years old and going strong) has released a magnificent book titled Shaping the Future: 40 Years of Innovation.  While self

August 27, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Basic Twitter Advice to Companies: Shorten Your Tweets

I retweet a lot of stuff – hopefully it’s useful to the folks that follow my twitter stream.  I try to keep the retweets relevant – either useful business stuff,

August 26, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

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