Oblong – Seeing Is Believing

At Foundry Group, we’ve been talking about human computer interaction (HCI) as one of our key investment themes.  Our premise behind HCI is that the way humans interact with computers

November 17, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

NewsGator's Star Shines Bright

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I’ve been an investor in NewsGator since it was one person (Greg Reinacker – the founder).  We had a

November 14, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A Few Requests for President-elect Obama

I’ve been an unabashed Obama supporter for a while.  I’m glad he’s going to be our next president and am optimistic about his leadership.  I’ve been enjoying listenin

November 13, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Zynga Live Poker Launches

Two years ago if you had told me that I’d be playing Texas Hold’em Poker with my Facebook friends on cell phone and enjoying it I would have snickered.  Well

November 13, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Tom Evslin for FCC Chairman

I didn’t come up with this idea – Om Malik did.  But he’s absolutely right – Obama needs to look outside the beltway for many key positions, including FCC Chair.

November 11, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Morning Pre-Run Rundown

As I stall before I head out the door for an hour run in the cold, dark mountains outside my house, I thought I’d share some of the interesting stuff

November 11, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Tony Stark Was In My Graduating Class at MIT

I was reading through Technology Review in the bathroom this morning and came across a quick piece on Iron Man that I missed during the movie.  Apparently Tony Stark was

November 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Crash Course – Growing a Startup Amid Uncertain Economic Times

On Wednesday, November 12th Silicon Flatirons is hosting a panel discussion titled Crash Course – Growing a Startup Amid Uncertain Economic Times.  The discussion will be held at Room 204 [

November 9, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Understanding Ignorance and Humility

I’ve made a large number of mistakes in my life.  My goal when I make a mistake is to understand what I did wrong, learn from it, pick myself up,

November 9, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Connecting Stuff, Widget Stats, iPhone Apps, and Entrepreneurship

On the heals of a really awesome Defrag conference, many of the companies I’m an investor in are plowing ahead aggressively regardless of the rumors and innuendo about technology entrepreneurshi

November 9, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld