The Rhythms of My Life

I was in a board meeting yesterday with a company planning a major commercial release of their product “at the end of summer”.  We managed to turn this into 8/31/09

March 26, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

WSGR’s Entrepreneurs Report – Private Company Financing Trends

Wilson Sonsini puts out a quarterly Entrepreneurs Report.  The Winter 2008 issues is titled Private Company Financing Trends.  They asked me if I’d contribute an article around the topic of

March 25, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Another Beers and Boulder with Brad Event (Vancouver)

In February, I did a “Beers and Boulder with Brad” event in Seattle.  Local Seattle-based entrepreneurs Dave Schappell of TeachStreet and T.A. McCann of Gist put the event together and

March 24, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Help Encourage Entrepreneurship At CU Boulder With A Sponsorship

There has been a lot of activity around entrepreneurship at CU Boulder lately, especially in computer science and engineering.  This is encouraging to me as I believe that a strong

March 24, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A VC’s Biggest Flaw: Arrogance

I’m really enjoying writing my print column for Entrepreneur Magazine.  It’s a different kind of writing than my blogging and exercises different mental muscles. This month’s article A VC’s Bigge

March 23, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Sunday Morning Reading

I usually sleep in on Sunday’s but I’ve got a 16 mile run and want to meet Amy at the end of it at 10:30 for brunch.  So – good

March 22, 2009 · 5 min · Brad Feld

A Page Down OS Interface Design Memory Lane

Wow – Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009 is awesome (thanks Dave).  It is a screenshot from every major graphical OS since the Xerox Alto.  Some old favorites of mine

March 20, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurs vs. VCs

I caught the tail end of SXSWi (showed up yesterday and gave a speech sponsored by the Canadian Consulate) and am hanging around today for some night time music entertainment

March 18, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

TechStars Application Deadline Is This Saturday

If you have been thinking about applying to TechStars for either the Summer 2009 program in either Boulder or Boston, now is the time to do it as the application

March 18, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Is There A Better Phrase for “ICT”?

As co-chairman of the Colorado Governor’s Innovation Council, I’ve been regularly exposed to the acronym ICT.  It’s not a familiar or comfortably one to me and I chronically call it

March 18, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld