Master Chief In Training Shows Up At Harvard

As an MIT grad I periodically acknowledge that there was a thing referred to as a university down the river from me. They have this statue of a dude named

September 25, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Excel 100000 Bug

Software has bugs. Lots of them. I am a master bug finder (anyone that has had me bang on their stuff likely has at least one anecdote about this.) Today’s

September 25, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Sling Media Acquired by EchoStar

Today EchoStar announced that is has acquired Sling Media for $380 million in cash. My partner and 2007 travel buddy Ryan McIntyre is smiling tonight as he crawls into bed

September 24, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

VC's and Lawyers Need To Think Simpler

I love a good rant and Dave McClure has a doozy up titled VC’s & Tech Lawyers: Innovate, Automate, Simplify. Several years ago when Jason and I wrote our Term Sheet

September 24, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Art and Climate Change

While Amy and I were sitting in the San Francisco Airport reading the Sunday NY Times, we came across an article titled Looking for Inspiration in the Melting Ice. It

September 24, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Parallel Universes

I’ve been in a few parallel universes recently and am noticing it happening more and more. I like parallel universes – it always smells like opportunity to me (plus I get

September 21, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Subtitles

Those last two posts could have been subtitled “Vacation makes me verbose.” I guess limiting myself to 140 characters is what my Twitter account is for.

September 20, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Semantic Web Can Be Your Friend

Alex Iskold, the founder and creator of Adaptive Blue, has a long and helpful post up titled Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach. I have a small investment in

September 20, 2007 · 4 min · Brad Feld

What I Did On My Q3 Vacation

Ahhhh. That felt good. In my ongoing commitment to my marriage, I give Amy one solid week a quarter of uninterrupted “Brad / Amy time.” This quarter I handed my

September 19, 2007 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Patents Continue to be Silly

Jonathan Schwartz – the CEO of Sun – has a superb blog post up today titled Thank You, Network Appliance. Apparently Network Appliance has sued Sun for patent infringement and

September 7, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld