Microsoft Visits TechStars

Last week Don Dodge, Dan’l Lewin, and Dave Drach from Microsoft visited TechStars. Don has a nice post up about his visit including brief descriptions of several of the TechStars

July 15, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

It's The API, Stupid

Wesabe just came out with an API. If you aren’t familiar with Wesabe, it’s a new investment by my friends at Union Square Ventures – Brad Burnham describes why they

July 13, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Interacting With The Wall

One of the investment themes I’m intrigued with is human computer interaction (HCI). I believe that in 20 years the notion of typing on a keyboard and moving a mouse

July 13, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

FeedBurner / Blogspot Integration

While FeedBurner is no longer an investment of mine, I still am a huge FeedBurner fanboy and love everything about those cuddly little guys and gals. Today they announced that they

July 12, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Ok – It's Called Enterprise 2.0

I hate the 2.0 label. Hate it hate it hate it. Hate it. However, I’ve heard the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” 3,625 times in the past two weeks. All my enterprise [

July 12, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A CPM Here, A CPM There … Now You Are Talking Real Money

Today’s Techmeme meme is based on Facebook advertising brings poor results. Most of the posts are talking about the rotten clickthrough rate (0.04%) on Facebook. Some of the posts –

July 12, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Google Acquires Postini

Yeah – it’s old news now (announced on Monday) but it has been a busy week with little sleep (due to the existence of a puppy in my life.) My partner

July 12, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Passive-Aggressive Behavior Is Useless In A Startup

If you are making the move from a big company to a startup, Scott Converse has a must read post up about passive-aggressive behavior titled Corporate vs. Startup behaviors. I

July 9, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Computer Yoga

As StartupWeekend continues, a 90 second yoga break has been introduced at the tail end of the 7 minute check in that happens once an hour. The yoga has gotten

July 7, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

What Me Worry?

Several of you had “pleasant” reactions to the childhood photo I posted yesterday (where “pleasant” is most definitely a euphamism.) One of you who is of my generation an

July 7, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld