The Knives Your Sales People Should Have

In December, I wrote a post titled Give Your Sales People All The Knives.  While I let you draw whatever conclusions you wanted from the post, I thought I’d follow

January 19, 2009 · 5 min · Brad Feld

TechStars Applications Are Now Open

Applications for the 2009 TechStars program are now open.  If you apply before March 1st, you’ll be eligible to receive an invitation to TechStars For A Day on March 3rd.

January 19, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book: Daemon

If you read one book in 2009, read Daemon.  It’s unusual for me to recommend a book so early in the year.  Daemon is only my fourth book of 2009.

January 18, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Some Weekend Reading in Between Sleeping

Amy is in Mexico on vacation with her sisters and I’ve been spending most of the weekend in bed.  Sleeping.  I twisted my ankle running on Tuesday and had an

January 18, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

IDEO Redesigns the Bug in the Open

I’m an investor in Bug Labs (personally, not through our funds).  When I first met with Peter Semmelhack, the CEO, on an introduction from Fred Wilson (the lead investor) I

January 17, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Coast Guard Footage of US Airways Hudson River Crash

I fly a lot so I’ve been bizarrely obsessed with the US Airways crash last week.  While most of the video comes after the plane is in the river, it’s

January 17, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Oblong’s Tamper at Sundance

This year at Sundance, Oblong unveiled Tamper.  The Tamper application is a gestural interface for cinematic design.  It is built on Oblong’s g-speak spatial operating environment and is a f

January 15, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

More on Enterprise RSS

Greg Reinacker, the founder/CTO of NewsGator, has a post up titled Enterprise RSS – the State of the Industry that is a continuation of the discussion that’s recently ensued around

January 15, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Asshat of the Year from StockTwits

Howard Lindzon cracks me up. Endlessly.  Continuously.  His latest rant is all about Asshat’s from 2008 put on by one of his new companies StockTwits.  I’m not really sure what

January 15, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

NVCA Webcast: Beyond the Limited Partnership Agreement – Issues For Challenging Times

The National Venture Capital Association regularly has webcasts aimed at various members of the venture capital community.  On January 23rd from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Eastern they are having one

January 15, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld