Authorization Code Scheme

F3EL7-T3YL2-MBN5P-ZQI6R-YE8PI Ever type that into a pop up box on your computer when installing software?  If not, you’ve never installed anything from Microsoft (or many other companies) – at le

March 31, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Spark Capital’s Seed Program

I’m psyched that my friends at Spark Capital have launched Start@Spark, their new seed program.  In their post Why are we doing this? they explain: “So, this must be a

March 26, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

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