How High Tech Sales Really Works

A CEO friend (who also is an excellent salesman) sent me a fun post titled Sales 101 with the comment "here’s one that will make you laugh in a sad but

September 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

My Quandary

When I was a kid, one of my mom’s favorite lines was "go outside and play."  I spent a lot of time outside.  As an adult, I spent a lot

September 9, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

TechStars Demo Day in Mountain View, CA

We’ve just wrapped up our second year of doing TechStars and I’m really excited about some of the companies that have come out of the program this year.  We held

September 9, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Dad, I'll Be Upgrading Your Tech Support Shortly

Ever since I left home for college in 25 years ago, I periodically get a call from my father that goes something like "Hi Brad, it’s Dad.  I’m having trouble

September 8, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Cycles

Now that I’m 42 years old, I’ve been around the computer industry long enough to understand that it runs in cycles.  I don’t know how long the cycles are going

September 5, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Filtrbox is Hiring

One of last year’s TechStars companies – Filtrbox – is hiring.  They are looking for a Java + LAMP developer and a Flash/Flex/RIA developer.  If you fit the bill and

September 4, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Lookery is in Boulder Tonight

The gang from Lookery is in Boulder tonight and having a publisher meetup from 6:30pm to 9:00pm in the TechStars Bunker.  I’ve started using Lookery on Feld Thoughts and am

September 4, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Palin in Church

I’m speechless.  I don’t think I even know how to process this anymore. 

September 3, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Metaphors and Defrag

Eric Norlin – who runs the Defrag Conference – has a good post up today titled The metaphors we’ve outgrown.  He riffs off of the Google Chrome announcement.  At the

September 3, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Kindle and DRM

I have completely fallen in love with my Kindle.  I’ve now read over 50 books on it and have another 50 or so queued up.  I’ve been reading exclusively on

September 2, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld