Wither Radio Shack

Is it “whither” or “wither?” I guess you’ll have to read the Onion article titled Even CEO Can’t Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business to determine

May 27, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

I Am A Feed Demon

On this delicious three day weekend (I love three day weekends), what would be more fun than a new version of FeedDemon. (Ok, I can think of a couple of

May 27, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Don't Adjust My EBITDA

In my first business, we didn’t have a line for EBITDA on our financial statement. We went straight to Net Income. We knew our cash flow from our statement of

May 25, 2007 · 3 min · Brad Feld

We Suck Less Applied to Satellite Radio

The motto for my first company was “We Suck Less.” It’s one of my favorite lines and I think it’s a valid aspiration for many tech companies since so much

May 24, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Pigsty at LaGuardia Gate B6

I just hit my airport tipping point for 2007. I’m sitting in squalor at LaGuardia Gate B6 waiting for my Frontier flight home. I guess Spirit controls these gates and

May 23, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A Sense of Humor

From a mug found in Fred Wilson’s office. It’s important to have a sense of humor in this business (and in every business, and in life.) The coffee was great.

May 21, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Big Ben at the Top of Amazon

Ben Casnocha’s book My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley is at the top of Amazon’s Movers and Shakers list today. Daily rank

May 21, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Architect

Last week the CEO of one of the companies that I’m an investor in asked me why all the companies I was blogging about were Web 2.0 companies. I despise the

May 21, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

My Start-Up Life Ships

Over the last few years Amy and I have become close friends with Ben Casnocha. We adore the guy. Ben started his first company – Comcate – at age 14.

May 21, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

TechStars Starts This Week

I know David Cohen is excited – I hope the TechStars teams are. The Denver Post had a nice article on How TechStars was born which includes several very silly pictures

May 20, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld