Well – that run didn’t happen. Sometimes you just need a nap. Badly. Late night + very early morning = nap. Yummy. Ready for more. In the mean time, here is this week’s TechStars Boulder: The Founders episode. Special guest appearances by Rob Hayes of First Round Capital and Rollie Cohen, the news TechStar.

I’m in LA today taking a break between a board meeting and a dinner meeting. I’ve got a few calls and am then going running somewhere, although I haven’t yet figured out where that’s going to be since I’m deep in downtown LA. While I was stalling before putting my running shoes on, I stumbled onto a video on ReadWriteWeb today that made me homesick. Never Mind the Valley, Here’s Boulder from ReadWriteWeb on Vimeo.

If you are an independent contractor that is a Java stud, email me. I’m specifically looking for someone with familiarity with Vignette 7, Weblogic 9, Javascript, Ajax, and .NET web services.

As many of my friends are cranking through the TripleByPass bike race and I prepare to go for a long run in the mountains near my house in Keystone, I thought I’d leave you with a few tech blog posts and articles I read this morning. Too Much And Not Enough: Eric Norlin (Defrag) has a nice short piece on a phrase I’m hearing a lot these days. CrunchUp Live: Real Time Search Panel: More of “too much and not enough”. Kimbal Musk’s (OneRiot) has the money quote of the panel: “Drinking from the firehose is a ticking timebomb.”

I love the blog 3 Quarks Daily. The best part is that I don’t have to read it – Amy obsesses over it and sends me all the stuff she knows I’ll like (at least a half dozen a week – sometimes a lot more). Today’s (actually from March 30th) is a magnificent work of art by Helmut Smits tilted Dead Pixel in Google Earth 2009. Absolutely fucking brilliant.

I suck at naming things. I named my first company “Feld Technologies” (yeah, that was super creative, but I bet it made my dad proud.) I learned an important lesson from that one – when things go wrong people call for Mr. Feld and yell at him. Better to name your company Costolo Technologies if your last name is Feld. I then went on to name another company I co-founded – this one that was one of the first email service providers (in the mid-1990’s we referred to this as “publishing email”). Guess what we named it? If you guessed “Email Publishing” you are now demonstrating your strong deductive reasoning skills as they pertain to my completely lame naming skills.

I spent the afternoon today at TechStars Boulder in the Bunker meeting with about half of the teams. I’m delighted with the progress they are making – everyone is really cranking and a few companies are just crushing it. This week’s episode of TechStars: The Founders is dynamite and includes a trip to Amsterdam and a quick spin through TechStars Boston. I’m bummed I missed tonight’s Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup where a handful of the TechStars teams gave five minute demos, but I was busy indulging myself at Frasca while learning about flower abortions.

Yesterday, I wrote about the new VC Blogger Network powered by Lijit. A handful of VCs emailed me asking to be added to the network (which has been done). There’s no time limit so if you are a VC and want to join, just email me. In the mean time, I neglected to mention a super cool site called Venture Maven. Greg Galant and several others put this together – it’s a great aggregation of VCs who tweet – both individually and by firm (quick – name all the firms that have 100% of the partners tweeting). If you are a VCtweeter and are not on the list, wander over now and add yourself.

I’ve long been fascinated by venture capitalists who blog. I’ve also spent a lot of time in and around various blog networks, as a participant, as an investor, and as an technology supplier. A few months ago Lijit rolled out their “Blogger Network” service and I created a new version of the VC Bloggers Network that I have been managing for a while. On the right hand side is a blogroll of all of the VCs in the network (if you are a VC blogger and you aren’t on the list, just email me and I’ll get you added.) All of the other bloggy stuff is here (the site is powered by WordPress) including an RSS feed for all the aggregated content, archives, tags, and the recent content.