Don’t Forget to Play

As everyone gets fully back to work after the Christmas / New Year holiday season, there was something that you just did with friends and family that will have a

January 5, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Zynga Is Hiring Game Producers

One of our portfolio companies – Zynga – is looking for great game producers.  Mark Pincus, Zynga’s CEO writes about it on his blog. “We are open to anyone from

January 5, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Saturday Morning Reading

It’s 2009, people are getting ready to get back in gear, and there’s a lot of good stuff floating around the blogosphere this morning.  Here’s some of it. Economic Recovery

January 3, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurship in Boulder in 2009

2008 was a fantastic year for entrepreneurship in Boulder.  While the VC firm I’m part of (Foundry Group) invests nationally, the partners have made a deliberate decision to live and

January 1, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book: The Echelon Vendetta

I rang in the new year with some mental floss.  I found David Stone’s The Echelon Vendetta on one of our bookshelves in Keystone as I was looking around for

January 1, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Running Year By The Numbers

As 2008 winds down, Amy and I are having a traditional New Year’s Eve filled with debauchery.  She’s eating a bowl of tomato soup with cheddar cheese and crackers in

December 31, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

More on Disclosure

In response to my post The Dynamics of Full Disclosure, Jeffrey Kalmikoff – one of the co-founders of Skinnycorp (the dudes who do Threadless) wrote an add-on titled On trust,

December 31, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Subsidies Snubsidies

Erin Griffith at PEHub has a dynamite link to a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon from 15 years ago that is a perfect description what’s going on today in the “subsidy

December 31, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Renormalizing Denormalized Data

Yummy – that’s a fun tongue twister.  It doesn’t quite mean “synchronizing data”, but it’s in the same family.  I don’t have a better phrase yet for “renormalizing denormalized data”,

December 30, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Dynamics of Full Disclosure

A meme that regularly goes around the blogosphere is “full disclosure.”  When someone blogs about something they have a financial interest in (e.g. an equity interest in a company) or

December 30, 2008 · 4 min · Brad Feld