Innovation and Creative Destruction

Fred Wilson has a magnificent post up this morning from Berlin titled Bits Of Destruction.  In it, he nails a critical point about innovation. “This downturn will be marked in

December 26, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Trust, The Healthcare System, and Saving My Dad’s Academic Life

My father, Stan Feld, is a retired endocrinologist.  He wrote a beautiful blog post yesterday titled The Therapeutic Magic Of The Physician Patient Relationship: Part 1.  In it he tells

December 25, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Valuing Competence vs. Loyalty

Today’s lunch time conversation was about valuing competence vs. loyalty.  In some organizations, loyalty is the most important attribute while in others competence is valued over loyalty. I have

December 25, 2008 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Reboot

Thomas Friedman has a phenomenal Op-Ed in today’s New York Times.  Time to Reboot America.  Whether you like or dislike Friedman, he’s nailed this one.  Repeat after me: Ctrl-alt-del.

December 24, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Recommendation – Ignore All The 2009 Predictions

Oh goody, they are here.  Every magazine, newspaper, and most of the online publications known to man are putting together their “2008 year in review” and their “2009 prediction” editions.

December 24, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Robots and Beer

Every male tech nerd (and some female tech nerds) that I’ve known has at one time or another has fantasized about a robot bringing him (or her) a beer from

December 23, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Books on the Beach

Q4 vacation earlier this month was the site of my 43rd birthday (to those who wished me a happy birthday, thank you!)  We spent the week in Cabo at the

December 22, 2008 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Daily Reading As The Year Winds Down

I’m always amused at how many “lists” appear at the end of the year.  I’m anti-list – I never read them and I no longer am willing to contribute to

December 22, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Christmas vs. Chanukah

As Chanukah sprints ahead and gets started before Christmas, we all know how this ends since Christmas will finish before Chanukah does.  To refresh your memory, take a look at

December 22, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Books: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Today’s book was an easy one.  When Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, I decided to read all of his books.  A quick trip to Amazon resulted in the purchase of

December 21, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld