The Pneumatic Burrito

Sometimes the web is a hysterical place. Ryan sent me the brilliant description of The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel. I wonder if this will have any impact on Chipotle’s stock pri

April 9, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Bill Payne's Guide to Raising Money From Angels

Longtime angel investor Bill Payne has a new book out called The Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels. I read it last week and it’s excellent – if you

April 9, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Closure on the North Pole Marathon

Last August I somehow convinced myself that I was going to run the North Pole Marathon. Fortunately around the end of the year I came to my senses and decided

April 9, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Growth of Lucene

All of a sudden I’m seeing Lucene (and Nutch and Solr) being adopted by a bunch of my companies. While several have been using it for a while, it’s spreading

April 9, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: Machine Beauty

Machine Beauty by David Gelernter was phenomenal. I love the notion that a book written in 1998 should be classified as “a classic”, but given the premise of the book and

April 8, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Comments on Daylight Saving Time from an IT Guy

I wrote a post on March 12th titled Daylight Savings Time is Stupid. A bunch of people agreed with me, but some didn’t, suggesting that (a) I was missing the point and

April 8, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

At Least I Was Going 0 MPH This Time

Exactly 20,000 miles. What numerical fun!

April 8, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Cool Product Expo

I got a note yesterday from David Abramson – an MBA student at Stanford – about The Cool Product Expo which is taking place from noon to 6pm on Wednesday

April 8, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Communicating Sales Info To Your Board

My partner Chris Wand is finally blogging (even though he’ll deny it) over at AsktheVC – he’s writing a series on what should be in a “board reporting package.”&nbsp

April 6, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Books: My Start-Up Life

My friend Ben Casnocha’s book titled My Start-Up Life hits the stores on May 18th. The website for the book – being published with Jossey-Bass (Wiley) is up. It’s al

April 6, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld