Let's Get Vertical

I love to invest in companies that are developing broad horizontal technologies. Many of them – such as NewsGator, FeedBurner, and Rally – can be applied to many

August 28, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Montana Future

In 1991, a group of ten people (including me and Amy) gathered at a resort in Stowe, VT to have a Chautauqua to discuss the future. We had a magnificent weekend

August 27, 2007 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Summer of '47

When I read David Halberstam’s Summer of ‘49 recently, I thought of my dad many times. We talked about it one day and he told me about his brilliant Summer

August 23, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Serial Entrepreneurs and What Motivates Them

The WSJ has an excellent article titled The Secrets of Serial Success. The “serial entrepreneur” is a mysterious beast and entrepreneurship sociologists have been poking and prodding

August 20, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Fun With Friends

After waking up from a nap dreaming about Social Graphs (ok – not really) I realized I’d never tried to integrate my Outlook contacts into “the other stuff I use

August 18, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Are You Cooler Online?

“Even on a slow day I can have a three way chat with two women at one time. I’m so much cooler online.” Unfortunately, Brad Paisley has turned his embed

August 18, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Social Graph – The Next Future Overused Phrase

Get ready to start hearing “Social Graph” as frequently as you hear “Web 2.0.” The construct of the Social Graph (and its friend – Social Network) has been around f

August 18, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

TechStars Launch Day

Yesterday was a blast. The ten TechStars teams – which have been cranking away in Boulder for the past three months – all launched yesterday to a packed room of

August 17, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Resources for Widget Performance

I received a couple of comments my last post titled The Unbearable Slowness of Javascript Widgets including one from Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress and the founder of Au

August 17, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Unbearable Slowness of Javascript Widgets

Alex Iskold – the giant brain behind AdaptiveBlue – has a great post up today titled How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It). While

August 15, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld