TechStars Boston

Last week while I was off the grid for my Q1 vacation, TechStars announced that we are doing a Boston program this summer.  Applications for both the Boston and the

February 24, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Sony’s New Stupid Box Thing

Unknown Error.  Please Restart. Perfect.  I love The Onion.  Thanks Rick.

February 23, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Founder Dilution Survey

Sim Simeonov, a partner at Polaris Venture Partners, sent me (along with a bunch of his closest friends) the following email this morning. “Founders often ask about the dilution they

February 23, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

What The Government Should Do With $1 Billion

Don Dodge totally nails it in his post Create 50,000 companies for $1B.  He builds on Fred Wilson’s No Thanks post when discussing what the US government should do with

February 23, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneur Magazine – Check Your VC’s Pulse

My monthly column in Entrepreneur Magazine is up (and on the newsstands).  This month’s article is titled Check Your VC’s Pulse and offers entrepreneurs three important questions to ask your

February 23, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Q1 Vacation Included Two Highly Relevant Books

I’m back in Boulder from my Q1 vacation with Amy.  We spent the first few days at our ski house in Keystone with the Wilson Quintet (Fred, Joanne, Jessica, Emily,

February 23, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Doombas

I’m completely laughing my ass off after watching Samantha Bee’s Future Shock – Roombas  of Doom segment on Comedy Central. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p /

February 14, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book: The Wallstrip Edge

I just read Howard Lindzon’s book The Wallstrip Edge: Using Trends to Make Money — Find Them, Ride Them, and Get Off.  It’s a really fun book – 200 pages

February 13, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Parallel Universes of The Internet

I spent last Sunday at CU Boulder at the Silicon Flatirons Digital Broadband Migration: Imagining the Internet’s Future conference.  Not surprisingly it was an interesting day where early on

February 13, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Which Web Services Should Gnip Integrate Next?

Gnip has completed the latest version of their schema and is now about to embark on a campaign to integrate at least 100 services by mid year.  They’ve decided that

February 13, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld