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

Making Email Connections at an Early Age

I spend plenty of time making connections between people.  Email has certainly made this a lot easier.  One of my best friends – Warren Katz (the founder / CEO of

April 8, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Go Speed Racer, Go

Will Herman reminded me that Speed Racer the movie is arriving on the scene on May 9th.  Speed Racer is the cartoon of my childhood.  A few years ago I

April 8, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Mom In India And Japan

My mom just hung a new exhibit of her photographs titled Japan and India: Faces and Places. The images are spectacular – take a look at the slide show if

April 7, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld