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

Fenway Park

I’m not a crazy baseball fan, but after 12 years living in Boston it’s hard not to have a soft spot in one’s heart for the Red Sox Nation. Fenway

May 20, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

When The User Experience Breaks

I had a great weekend in Boston with the men over 5 feet tall in my family. We watched the Red Sox paste the Braves (13–3) and then watched the

May 20, 2007 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Rained Out In Boston

I’m in Boston this weekend for the annual Feld Men’s Trip with my dad (Stan), my uncle (Charlie), my brother (Daniel), and my two cousins (Jon and Kenny.) We had

May 18, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Failure Comes From Not Following Your Additive Rules

The cliche “rules were meant to be broken” is a common one in the world of entrepreneurship. Paul Berberian – a great entrepreneur (and dear friend) almost died yesterday

May 18, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

San Francisco vs. Silicon Valley

In the spirit of those awesome Apple / IBM ads (and the Apple / IBM spoof ads), Nick Denton at Valleywag (yes – I read Valleywag – doesn’t everyone?) has

May 18, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld