A Great Way To Start The Week

How’s that for a run?  Yes – that’s a 1.75m hill starting at mile 3.  And it’s steep (>10% grade). Elevation gain: 2,081.  Elevation loss: 2,867.  Number

April 14, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

I Want To Allocate My Tax Payment

As April 15th looms again (it seems to come every year), all the same old articles appear about taxes, budgets, deficits, government spending, and the inequities in the universe.  This

April 14, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

What Exactly Is Google App Engine?

Last week was Google App Engine announcement and brouhaha.  This week is deeper analysis and understanding of Google App Engine. I spent some time last week trying to understand this

April 13, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

A Dedicated 409A Site

Holy Absurdity Batman, someone actually writes a dedicated 409A site called 409A Dismay.  For the latest and greatest 409A silliness, you are one click away from a subscription.

April 13, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

MIT Kicks Harvard's Ass

Is this a surprise to anyone?  I suggest Harvard take on Stanford next since they’ll actually have a chance at victory.

April 13, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

My Auction Doesn't Rate

Today’s NY Times has a clearly written article describing what’s really going on with Auction Rate Securities titled It’s a Long, Cold, Cashless Siege.  There’s a lot of c

April 13, 2008 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Silliness-as-a-Service

With the sudden and ubiquitous emergence of PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), I thought I’d investigate several other "aaSes" as I always thought PaaS was something VC’s did. BaaS: T

April 13, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Unintended Consequences from Frontier

As I sit here in the San Francisco International Airport (they announce that so proudly over the PA when they tell me that the thread condition is orange every few

April 11, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

96 Comments And Still Going

I was going to respond to Fred’s post We Need A New Path To Liquidity in between my elephant meeting and my rocket ship meeting but I ended up reading all

April 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Fred's Rant on Liquidity

Fred Wilson has an incredible post up this morning titled We Need A New Path To Liquidity.  I don’t agree with everything in it, but it’s a great, heartfelt post

April 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld