Colorado Innovation Council

Last Thursday, I shared the stage at the CSIA DEMOgala 2007 with Colorado Governor Bill Ritter. During his speech, Governor Ritter announced the formation of the Colorado Innovation Council.&nbs

October 16, 2007 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Do I Have Your Attention?

If you go deep into the Feld Thoughts archive bin – way back to December 5, 2005 – I wrote a post called It’s The Trust, Stupid. I still like

October 16, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Stephen Colbert Can Write Op-Ed's

The best thing I read in the paper (or on the Internet, or in my email, or on the side of a building) today was I Am an Op-Ed Columnist

October 15, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Know What You Suck At

Before I call it quits on the damp Sunday night in Colorado, I thought I’d leave you with a thought that came up in a conversation last week: “Know What

October 14, 2007 · 3 min · Brad Feld

CTO vs. VP Engineering

I went for a mountain run yesterday with a long time friend of mine.  In between panting, we spent about a half an hour discussing the differences between a CTO and a

October 14, 2007 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Interviews With Boulder-based Startups

If you follow the Boulder entrepreneurship scene, Jerry Lewis – the editor-in-chief of the Boulder County Business Report – has a video interview series up on the web titled Entrepreneur [

October 14, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Radicals for Capitalism

Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorite books of all time (right up there with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values.) While I’m not a

October 13, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

dot.corn?

Today’s Rocky Mountain News has an article titled Is dot.corn honeymoon over? As someone in the middle of the dot.com thing (and I hated hated hated the label dot.com – or

October 13, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Distance Running In Extreme Situations

Frank Shorter has an excellent essay in the NY Times titled Running Into Trouble. If you are a long distance runner, you are probably aware that last week’s Chicago Marathon

October 13, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Evil Patent Things

This one has all the trappings of a potential debacle. Patent holding company targets Linux, files lawsuits against Red Hat and Novell. A patent dating back to 1987 describing a

October 12, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld