YAWP – Yet Another Widget Post

While the SXSW crowd is a-twitter, I’m still thinking about the range of private emails I’ve gotten about my widget post. While some of the comments were assertions that I&rsquo

March 15, 2007 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Looking for Web-based Political News Infrastructure

As you may know, Denver is hosting the 2008 Democratic Convention. I recently met with a major media company that is looking to do a specialized political information site built

March 13, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Empirical Evidence of Why Software Patents Are Bad (or Good) – Part 3

Jason is getting riled up about patents over on AsktheVC. I figured it’d be a good time to finish up the set of posts from John Funk suggesting an empirical

March 13, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Daylight Savings Time is Stupid

I’ve never understood daylight savings time. My run this morning was borked as a result of my lack of comprehension of how it works, my 7am conference call with someone

March 12, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

New West Summit on Transformation in the Rockies

NewWest.Net recently announced a new conference, the New West Summit on Transformation in the Rockies, which will be held June 6-8 at Big Sky, Montana. It’s an interdisciplinary event focus

March 12, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

OpenCoffee Club Coming To Boulder – Soon

Saul Klein of Index Ventures turned me on a few weeks to OpenCoffee Club – a new program he started in London that is quickly making its way across the

March 12, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Empirical Evidence of Why Software Patents Are Bad (or Good) – Part 2

In January, I posted Part 1 of an empirical approach to determining whether software patents are bad (or good). The essay was sent to me by John Funk, founder of

March 11, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: Consulting Demons

If you’ve ever been a management consultant you’ll love Consulting Demons by Lewis Pinault. My first company (Feld Technologies) did a lot of work for and with a major east coas

March 11, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Fear of Failure's Impact on Success

Jason Wood has an interesting post up titled Failure: Can fearing it impede professional greatness? It’s consistent with the title of his blog (The Ponderings of Woodrow) – really go

March 11, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Guitar Hero Freebird

There was much Guitar Hero playing last night. Those who were there know who they are and should now bow before a real master. 475,402 and a 425 note streak

March 6, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld