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

Boom – The Game Changes – Again

Today’s announcement that Microsoft is paying about $6 billion to buy aQuantive is the latest ownership change of an advertising-related Internet company. Yesterday WPP Group announced tha

May 18, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book: No Vision, All Drive

I’ve gotten to know David Cohen and David Brown through our work together at TechStars. DavidC and I have talked a little about Pinpoint (the company that the David’s co-founded

May 16, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Running With Bears

I was walking upstairs at 6am to go put my running clothes on and head out the door for an hour when Kenai started barking like crazy. I inferred that

May 16, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Amazing Q&A with Alan Greenspan

If you ever have the chance to see Alan Greenspan do an hour of improptu Q&A in front of any audience (in this case 500 business people in Denver), do

May 15, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

My Favorite Christopher Wool Picture

Sotheby’s is having a huge Contemporary Art auction tonight – you can watch it live online. The Rothko (White Center 1950) is unbelievable. Sotheby’s minimum price g

May 15, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

ATLAS and the Wonderful World of NCWIT

We had an NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) board meeting yesterday in advance of two days of NCWIT alliance meetings. I’m delighted with the progress this org

May 15, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

137 Newbury Street

I had lunch with Bijan Sabet at Spark Capital today on my way to the airport in Boston. We met at his office at 137 Newbury Street. I recognized the

May 8, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

My Love Hate Relationship with Boston

I spent 12.1 years of my life living in Boston (and Cambridge) – from age 17.7 to 29.8. This morning I spent an hour having a picture perfect run around

May 8, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld