Dear Chairman Bernanke – We Need More Crack

This was so predictable.  As I mentioned in my post from a few weeks ago titled Can I Have Some More Crack Please?  I am not a macroeconomics guy.  I

February 5, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

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