Customer Enthusiasm

One of the great things about blogs is that it makes it easy for anyone (that has a blog) to express things – both good and bad. While mainstream media

August 30, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Boulder Building New Orleans

A little over a year ago Amy and I had a discussion about how we could directly contribute to rebuilding New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We have

August 29, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

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