Scratch – A New Programming Language

40 years ago Logo was created. When I was at MIT in the 1980’s, I worked for a semester as a UROP (undergraduate research opportunities program) in Seymour Papert’s lab.

May 29, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

TechStars Week 1

David has a summary of the great first week at TechStars. The Intense Debate guys weighed in with a post of their own and the energy in the room was huge

May 29, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Time to Stuff the Ballot Box

I’m amused by the endless awards that our industry bestows on people and companies, but I can’t avoid the seduction of asking you to vote. I promise you don’t have

May 28, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Best Start-Up Haiku

Scott Yates won a copy of Ben Casnocha’s book My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley with the best haiku in the contest

May 27, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Why Do Computers Suck So Much?

It’s 2007. I was ready to go for my long run at 9am. It’s 9:27am. I’ve spent the last 27 minutes trying to get iTunes on my Vista-based laptop to

May 27, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

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