Ignighter – Group Dating

As the TechStars 2008 companies gear up for Investor Demo Day, many of them are asking me to write about them on this humble blog.  I’m really proud of what

August 11, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Enterprise 2.0 and Defrag

Eric Norlin has a good post up titled Enterprise 2.0 as part of a larger theme.  In it he addresses the question "Is enterprise 2.0 bullshit?"  Eric doesn’t think it

August 7, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Irrelevance of Silicon Valley Envy

A few weeks ago I wrote about the AEA survey that ranked Boulder as the #2 CyberCity in the US.  I suggested that this was misleading since #1 was "San

August 7, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

I've Deleted All My Alerts And Replaced Them With Filtrbox

I have been looking forward to this day for a while.  I’ve always been obsessed with following any news or blog mentions of any of the companies I’m an investor

August 7, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

What Am I?

When I work with software all day long, I sometimes forget that there are seriously cool and amazing things in the world that people build, like hadron colliders.

August 7, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Patents, Commons, and Anti-Commons

Yippee – the criticism of the software patent stupidity is starting to heat up and some really smart people are making both useful arguments about the issues and interesting proposals

August 6, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Interview With Jon Fox of Intense Debate

Allen Stern has a great interview up with Jon Fox, the co-founder of Intense Debate.  Jon and Intense Debate were part of the first year’s crop of companies from TechStars

August 4, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Why Does This Slide Suck?

I have seen my lifetime supply of slides like the following: My good friend Bruce Wyman – the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum – has a thoughtful

August 4, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Bouncing Back from Losing $20m

Alex Muse has a long, detailed post up about How [He] lost $20,000,000+ in 18 months.  It’s the story of his experience with LayerOne – the first version and the

August 4, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Amazing Powers of Concentration

Tim O’Reilly tweeted a link to an article titled How To Concentrate which was originally published in 1930.  It is excellent and worth reading slowly (presumably while you are concentrating

August 3, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld