Another Boulder Company Acquired – Tucows buys NetIdentity

Last Thursday, Tucows announced that it was buying Boulder’s NetIdentity. At a deal value of over $20m, it’s healthy for a company with only 10 employees, although m

June 19, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A Perfect Sunday for Father's Day

I got to spend Father’s Day with my dad. We’re sitting at my dining room table, laptop to laptop, while I help him out with his blog. There was a

June 18, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Jack Bauer and John Rain In Print

On my trip last week, I tried a few times to read Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth but just couldn’t get into on the road. So – I gobbled down

June 17, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Howard Morgan on Work / Work Balance

I’ve written plenty on Work / Life balance and have spoken broadly about it with a number of people in the past year. Howard Morgan – a long time VC

June 17, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Use Your Slingbox to Watch World Cup Soccer At Work

Eric has a great use case for the Slingbox and the World Cup. Since the only real excitement in soccer is a goal or a penalty (I know, blasphemy), multitasking with

June 17, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Joel Spolsky's First BillG Review

I love to read Joel Spolsky’s stuff – in addition to being a well known software developer, he’s an excellent writer and superb story teller. His ode to Bill Gates

June 17, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

My Dad Is Looking for a Posse to Help Repair the Healthcare System

My dad has been blogging about his view of the crisis in our healthcare system for two months and is starting to hit his stride. He’s been setting up the

June 17, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Giving Up Salary for Equity After VC Funding

I got a great question the other day which highlights the tension that can emerge in an early stage company between VCs and entrepreneurs. Company X – which is VC backed

June 16, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Books: Java Concurrency In Practice

Eric Lunt, FeedBurner’s CTO – has a review up of the book Java Concurrency in Practice. Eric is an absolute star developer – I’ve known him since the early days of [

June 15, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Early Stage Angel Round Valuations

I’m getting a lot of questions these days about early round valuations – specifically for angel rounds. While these vary over time, and by segment, most of them tend to

June 15, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld