FriendFeed Adds IntenseDebate and BrightKite

There is some TechStars love this morning from the gang at FriendFeed (thanks guys!)  They added two of last years TechStars class – IntenseDebate and BrightKite – during their Friend

June 11, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Rambling Instead of Running

Some idiot (me) scheduled a 7am breakfast meeting on a day when he had a six mile run scheduled.  Have you ever tried to get up at 4am (after going

June 11, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Foundry Group Themes

Over the past few months we’ve been posting about the "themes" we invest in at Foundry Group over on our Foundry Group blog.  I thought – with the most recent

June 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Fail Harder

A reader (thanks Austin) sent me two great failure links today.  The first is from BoingBoing and is titled J.K. Rowling on the power of failure.  It’s an excellent short

June 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Soul Patch Live in Boulder on June 21st

My partners Ryan and Jason are playing a gig with their band, Soul Patch, June 21st at Redfish Brewhouse in Boulder.  They start at 930pm – sharp.  It’s a onetime

June 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Ted's Demise and The Kindle's Rise

It’s another raining day in Boulder (weird) – maybe I’ll go to Boston tonight.  Oh – I heard it was raining there also.  I bet they don’t get hail in

June 5, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Xilinx Colorado Software Engineers

If you are a software engineer at Xilinx that is caught in the current layoff, please drop me an email with your resume. Several of the companies I’m involved in

June 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Rally Software Raises $16.85 Million

One of the many satisfying things about being a venture capitalist is being involved in a company from the very beginning that has a huge vision that it subsequently executes

June 4, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

I'm Talking A Lot This Week

I have some weeks where I wake up and realize there is a speaking engagement almost every day.  This is one of them. Last night was TechStars – The FeedBurner

June 3, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Revisiting the Term Sheet

In 2005, my partner Jason Mendelson and I wrote a long series of posts describing all of the parts of a typical venture capital Term Sheet.  We started on 1/3/05

June 3, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld