IBM Takes Another Step To Changing The Patent Process

As I’ve written before, I’m a huge critic of the existing patent process, especially as it applies to software patents. Today, the NY Times has an article up describing how

September 26, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Valuable Wikipedia Information

For those of you that share my fascination with the versatility of the word “fuck”, Wikipedia has a comprehensive entry listing the films that most frequently use said word. The

September 25, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Do Your Investors Use Your Product?

Brad Spirrison has a nice article in the Chicago Sun-Times titled Feedburner’s investors have its technology at their fingertips. Among other things, he highlights that three of the FeedBu

September 25, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Alaska Bears

Having seen a few bears up front and personal (think “20 yards away”), I know how incredibly intense they are. Chris Wand send me this link from a set of

September 25, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Under The Cover of FeedBurner's Feed Stats

While I was on vacation, my friends at FeedBurner wrote a long post describing their stats methodology in detail, using the popular TechCrunch blog as the example (with the permission

September 24, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

There Is A Major Software Innovation Wave Coming

I was at lunch last week with a friend and his business partner – my friend is an ex-technology VC who is now running an interesting blend of a public

September 24, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

KidsTek 6th Annual Tech Leader's Dinner

Amy and I have been supporters of KidsTek for the past several years, even since we were introduced to it by Pat Maley when he was the CEO of Dante Group

September 24, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Tom Coates: Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts

I just stumbled upon an outstanding presentation that Tom Coates (who writes plasticbag.org) gave last week at the Future of Web Apps conference. In addition to being excellent content, it&rsquo

September 23, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

409A Won't Be Ready By 1/1/07

While I was on vacation, I got an email from someone much more “in the know” than I am that it is highly unlikely that the final 409A regulations will

September 20, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Board of Directors: Number of Meetings

As Jim and I continue our Board Meeting series, we’ve decided to address a question that we are often asked – “How Many Board Meetings Should A VC-backed company have?”

September 18, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld