A Great Book Week

One of my favorite things about going dark for a week is that I get to consume a bunch of books. Since we’ve been back from Alaska, my reading pace

November 26, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

My Friends Were Busy While I Was Gone

I just gone done with my quarterly week off the grid. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays – Amy and I spent it chilling out in Keystone. I had

November 26, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Failing Gracefully

David Cohen has a great post up about the failure of one of his startup – iContact. Even though iContact failed, David and his partners still managed to return 78% of

November 26, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

More Board Meeting Thoughts

Scott Converse has an extensive post about his second board meeting. I’m a couple of months into my investment in ClickCaster and I’m very pleased with the progress Scott and

November 20, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

FeedDemon 2.1 Rocks

Nick Bradbury just released FeedDemon 2.1. It’s spectacular. I continue to use as many different newsreaders as I can get my hands on – FeedDemon is far and away the

November 20, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Feed Landing Pages

When IE 7 and Firefox 2 came out, they both added a lot of RSS-related functionality. As part of this, they both implemented their version of “smart landing” pages for

November 20, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Books: A State of Denial

My dad just wrote a great review of Bob Woodward’s State of Denial. We were both reading it at about the same time and had a couple of interesting conversations

November 20, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Extreme Sync

I’m playing around with “extreme sync” these days – exercising as many platforms as I can simultaneously just for fun. My central mail / calendar / contacts / tasks live

November 18, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Etiquette of Suicide

Amy and I love to sit around and make up names for bands. Etiquette of Suicide was tonight’s band name. It’s not our all time best, but I expect it to

November 18, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Best Computer Review Ever

My partner Ryan pointed me to Mark Morford’s incredible review of the new MacBook Pro on SFGate. Actually – in Mark’s words – it’s not really a MacBook Pro –

November 17, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld