Failure Is Part of A VC's Life

My partner Seth Levine has a cathartic post up titled Failure where he describes failure from a VC’s point of view.

February 14, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Gnip Gnop

I’m working on a new project called Gnip.  It’s appropriately inspired by the following game from my childhood. I look forward to gnipping while my friends gnop.

February 13, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Will Microsoft + Yahoo Chill Tech M&A?

On the way to the airport this morning I twittered "Dell bought messageone (not sure i get that one) and someone bought bebo. Another m&a day."  Fred Wilson immediately responded [&

February 13, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Intense Debate Integrates Twitter

As I wander around in my own little virtual universe, I lovingly look for all the ways the various content I create gets wired together.  I have a twitter account,

February 12, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Why Attention Matters

Jeff Nolan from NewsGator has a good post up on the Enterprise RSS blog titled Attention Data: Content vs. User that describes both attention data and privacy dynamics.  There’s a

February 12, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Wonderful World of Social Gaming

If you are curious about the progress our investment in Zynga is making, Inside Facebook has a good blog post up titled Looking for the next big thing?  Social gaming

February 12, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The VC Version of Kick the Can

I got an email this morning from an entrepreneur that I know that has been trying to raise an early round from a "seed VC investor" for the past few

February 11, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Free WiFi At Starbucks

Starbucks announced that today that you can hang out, drink coffee, eat high calorie baked goods, and surf the web for "free" for two hours (assuming you are drinking coffee

February 11, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Microsoft To Acquire Danger

Today Microsoft announced that they have agreed to acquire Danger.  Congrats to the gang at Danger who have created a dynamite set of products with a significant and passionate user

February 11, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Consumer Internet Innovation In The Enterprise

I’ve been wandering around telling people that 2008 is the year that all of the consumer Internet innovations we’ve been blessed with exposed to will be finding their way into

February 11, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld