MIT Sloan Bloggers

I stumbled upon the MIT Sloan Blog last week.  I am a Sloan grad (’88) and am a speaker at my 20th business school reunion this summer.  The folks behind

February 21, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

StorageTek Land Mystery Buyer Revealed

Yesterday, it was announced that ConocoPhillips is the mystery buyer of the old StorageTek campus.  There was much revelry and prognosticating about how magnificent this is for the universe.

February 21, 2008 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Post Acquisition Integration

My friends at FeedBurner surfaced today with a post titled Hello? Hellooooo?  In it, they explain what they’ve been up to post-acquisition by Google.  Two words – technical integ

February 21, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Old Excite TV Ads

My partner Ryan McIntyre discovered some old trippy TV ads that Excite did in 1996 based on Jimmy Hendrix’s Are You Experienced.  When I saw him in the office yesterday,

February 21, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Ode to the Treadputer

Andrew Hyde (the creator of StartupWeekend) and Matt Emmi (the founder of OneButtonLife and the dude that keeps all my home electronics working smoothly) have launched their latest company –

February 20, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

My Annual Weekend With My Dad

I spent the weekend in Austin with my dad who has written a nice post about his experience with me.  We ate, hung out, ate some more, wandered around, saw

February 19, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Momentum Behind Software Patent Reform Is Building

I’m an abolitionist.  I believe software patents should be abolished.  I’ve started pounding the drum about this and am delighted to hear as many positive responses to my plea as

February 19, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

It's Better to Fail Quickly

Mitchell Ashley has an excellent post up titled Fail Early, Fail Often.  I’m seeing a little more chatter about failure, introspection about how it feels, and suggestions about how to

February 19, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Entrepreneurship Lessons from Gordon Ramsay

My friend Bruce Wyman – who is the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum – turned me on to Gordon Ramsay‘s Kitchen Nightmares.  Early this morning I discovered

February 19, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Lisa Loeb and the Brilliance of Wikipedia

On my way into the office this morning, I heard Stay by Lisa Loeb on the radio. When I was growing up in Dallas, my parents were friends with Lisa’s

February 18, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld