Opera – And I Don't Mean The Browser

Our good friend Mollie Fager (the executive director of The Dairy Center for the Arts) has a great rant up on the New West Network blog on “why opera rules”

June 27, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Gas or Pie

Ryan McIntyre pointed me at a car that gets 3.14k miles per gallon. Now, if it only ran on pi.

June 27, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Adam Green and Adam Bosworth on Failure

I received a lot of interesting and positive feedback on my post on talking about failure. There’s no question that enlightened entrepreneurs get the value of failure and generally enlight

June 26, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

PDF Your Board Package

Thankfully I no longer get fedexed binders of board packages from my portfolio companies in advance of a board meeting. Through the modern miracle of email, the board packages show

June 26, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

FeedBurner Hackathon III

Periodically FeedBurner gets all their engineers in a room, turns over tech support to the business team for the day, and cranks out a bunch of features. Hackathon III occurred

June 26, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Retiring? Boulder's Apparently The Place If You Love The Outdoors

Boulder was highlighted in the June 26, 2006 Fortune Magazine as the best place for outdoor addicts to retire. My friend Kimbal Musk’s superb restaurant – The Kitchen – was

June 25, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

My First NewsGator Presentation

A few days before NewsGator released their plug-in for the new version of Yahoo! Messenger, I was at NewsGator for a board meeting and sat in on their Friday demo

June 25, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Counting on the American People

Amy and I were co-hosts for Mark Udall’s summer solstice party today. Mark has become a friend and is one of the few politicians I’ve really come to admire. The quote

June 24, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Rally's New Financing and the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award

I’m really proud of my friends at Rally Software. Their business continues to grow very rapidly and they appear to have nailed the intersection of a couple of key trends

June 23, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Talking About Failure

I’ve noticed a pattern in many of the VC and entrepreneur blogs I read – very few people ever talk about failure. Failure is a key part of entrepreneurship. As an [&

June 23, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld