Do You Speak French?

Or Arabic, or Chinese, or Dutch, or German, or Greek, or Italian, or Japanese, or Korean, or Portuguese, or Russian, or Spanish?  Last night my Ross-my-IT-guy enabled translation of this

February 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Scorpion and the Frog

I must have Microsoft / Yahoo / Google on my mind this morning.  Micah Baldwin has written a delicious scorpion / frog parable about M/Y/G.  Until four minutes ago, I

February 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Marc Andreessen Said It So I Don't Have To

I’ve been chewing on what to say about the Microsoft / Yahoo merger and its impact on entrepreneurship and – more specifically – Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.  I was finally

February 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Zimbra 2010

Zimbra just released v5.0.  For those of you that don’t know Zimbra, it’s a Microsoft Exchange / Outlook competitor that Yahoo bought last year for $350m.  While v5.0 looks nifty

February 5, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Having A Sense of Humor

One of the great things about startups is that you get to "start from scratch" and create whatever culture you want.  You don’t get handed a 275 page how to

February 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Boulder Louisville Digital Divide

There is a magic spot on Highway 36 between Boulder and Louisville where 99.4% of all cell phone calls drop.  While on a call tonight, the person I was talking

February 4, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Do You Have A Frustrating Outlook?

I have been a hardcore Outlook user for a long time.  I grimaced with empathy as I read through Stan James 67 Reasons That Outlook Sucks.  If you are having

February 1, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft

Brilliant strategic move by Microsoft today – offering a price for Yahoo that is both well above the market clearing price and done out in the open.  Microsoft’s Letter to

February 1, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Software Company Patent Machinery

I got the following note from a friend at a big software company that was founded in the mid-1990’s. Having worked at the big companies it has always amazed me

February 1, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Getting It All Done

I get questions like the following on a regular basis: "I like reading your blog, and I’m amazed that you can get involved with so many things simultaneously and manage

February 1, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld