HCI: Why 2033 Won't Be Like 2008

My partner Ryan wrote a long post on the Foundry Group blog about our interest in HCI titled Theme: Human Computer Interaction (HCI).  I believe that 25 years from now

March 12, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Congrats to My Friends at Union Square Ventures

Union Square Ventures just announced their new $156m fund – Union Square Ventures 2008.  My relationship with USV goes back to the mid-1990’s – well before USV was created.

March 11, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Another Software Practitioner Against Software Patents

Dave Roberts – the VP Strategy and Marketing at Vyatta – has written a solid post on Open Source Juicer that tears apart Steve Tobak’s CNet article titled The Patent

March 11, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Good Night, and Good Luck

Amy and I just finished watching Good Night, and Good Luck.  Wow! We both sort of knew the story of Ed Murrow taking on U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy during McCarthy’s

March 9, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Intense Debate is Hiring

My friends over at Intense Debate are looking for a Technology Evangelist, Systems Administrator, and Software Engineer.  If you are interested, drop them an email at jobs@intensedebate.com. Whil

March 9, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Lijit Scobleized

Scoble just put up a one minute video with Todd Vernon, the CEO of Lijit. Scoble has Lijit’s search wijit up on his blog in the right side bar.  Go

March 9, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Sounds Like Tech Cocktail Was Fun

Frank Gruber (Somewhat Frank) has a nice summary of the 5 Startups (that) Demo At Tech Cocktail Boulder.  200+ people at The Foundry (across from our office at Foundry Group.)

March 8, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

24 Is Sort of Coming Sooner Than Expected

My partner Jason pointed me to the announcement that Jack Bauer gets early start with "24" prequel.  I have high hopes for this season given how much last season sucked

March 7, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Life Dinner

One of my Work-Life Balance institutions is something Amy and I call "Life Dinner."  We have a standing dinner date on the first night of every month.  Given my travel,

March 7, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

I Don't Believe in COO's

I was at a board meeting recently and the notion of potentially hiring a COO came up.  I blurted out "I don’t believe in COO’s."  An interesting conversation ensued, in

March 7, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld