I Learned About Snowshoes Today

As the reality of agreeing to run a marathon at the North Pole settled in today, I was bombarded by intros from Tom Heinrichs to great cold weather / snow

August 10, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Another Colorado Public Company Disappears

Yesterday Brocade announced that it was acquiring McData for $713 million. McData is another of the long time Colorado storage technology companies – it’s now joining its friend Stor

August 9, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

NewsGator's Toolbar and the Receiving Side of Product Focused Venture Capital

Brian Kellner, my victim VP Product Management at NewsGator, writes a great timeline of “his view” of Product Focused Venture Capital. Look for the TypePad widget soon. NewsGator rel

August 8, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Running a Marathon at the North Pole

On April 7, 2007 I’m going to run the North Pole Marathon. I’ve increased my marathon in every state goal to include the Marathon Grand Slam Club which is a marathon

August 8, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Books: The Strategic Guide to Selling Your Software Company

Bill Venema sent me a copy of his book The Strategic Guide to Selling Your Software Company. If you are a founder of CEO of a software company and you’ve sold

August 8, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Product Focused Venture Capital

I love to invest in companies where I can be actively involved as a user of their products. One of the benefits of actively blogging over the past two years

August 7, 2006 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Mount Redoubt – A Perfect Childhood View

Amy grew up in Anchor Point, Alaska until she was 8 years old. We still own the land and make an annual pilgrimage when we are out here. Following is

August 7, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

How Do Angel Investors Make Investment Decisions?

David Cohen, a Boulder-based entrepreneur and angel investor who I’ve done a few angel investments with and am now working on an interesting project with, has a great post up

August 7, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Amy The Earthquake Sensor

I grew up with tornados (I lived in Dallas) so I never experienced many earthquakes. My first one was in the middle of the night in Walnut Creek, CA while

August 6, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Dilbert and PowerPoint

JB pointed me at Dilbert’s comic on 8/3/06 that does a perfect job of explaining the problem with most PowerPoint presentations in 10 seconds.

August 6, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld