Entrepreneurial Companies and the Patent System

I love my life.  I get to work on fascinating things with really smart people.  And every day is different.  Plus I’m married to an awesome woman (but that’s a

March 6, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Rally Wins the Jolt Award – Again

This is the third year in a row that Rally Software has won the Jolt Product Excellence Award in the Project Management Tools category.  The Jolt awards are one my

March 6, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Could re: Bilski Vaporize Business Method Patents?

Maybe.  The upcoming en banc session of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit happening in May is an important one.  Brad Stone of the New York Times

March 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Google Contacts Data API

Dear all my friendly neighborhood web developers out there.  Please don’t ever ask me for my Google login and password again.  Instead, please implement the Google Contact API.  W

March 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Early Search Fun

I’m at TechStars for a Day watching my partner Ryan McIntyre give a presentation on Excite where he was a founder.  Each time he gives this presentation, it reminds me

March 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Customer Support Non Sense

Today’s Tech-Support Nightmare is priceless.  How many times have you had this particular customer support exchange?  LOI <g> WTF can’t speak sentence complete grammar

March 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Coin Toss

In 2000, we moved into a large office office in Superior, Colorado that at the time we fondly called Hotbank.  Incubators were all the rage and creating one seemed like

March 4, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

When I Say Theme, What Do I Meme?

The newest blog post up on the Foundry Group web site is titled What Is "Thematic Investing?"  In this post, we try to describe more deeply what we mean when

March 3, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

More Commentary on Venture Capital in the Rockies

Dave Drach from Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team has a nice post up titled Wow, Venture Capital in the Rockies, it gets better every year.  I agree – I think year

February 29, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Berkshire Hathaway 2007 Annual Report

I know there are plenty of readers out there that are Warren Buffett fans based on the requests for the "Annual Letters of Buffett Partnership, Limited, 1957 – 1970." The

February 29, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld