Book Review: Promise Me

I woke up with a brutal cold yesterday so I spent the day today sleeping, drinking lots of fluids, being pampered by Amy, and reading mental floss. Fortunately, my good friend

March 11, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Feedstorm

I love numbers. I also love data visualization – Edward Tufte has long been one of my intellectual heros and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information remains one of my

March 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

HiveLive – Well – That Was Fast

The 100 HiveLive invitations that I wrote about yesterday are gone. Hopefully some of you will post some comments about what you like and don’t like.

March 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Do You Want To Be A ScrumMaster?

No – I’m not talking about being excellent at rugby; I’m referring to one of the Agile software development approaches. Scrum is becoming extremely popular among developers tha

March 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

HiveLive Invitations

We fund plenty of things that are ahead of their time. Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. DoDots – a company started by John and George Kembal – was one

March 9, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Cruises and Blogging

We did a brainjam at our office today with about 30 people. Five minute overviews of what you are up to (plenty of real time demos) and then active discussion.

March 9, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Matt McCall – New VC Blogger

Matt McCall – a partner at Portage Venture Partners in Chicago – has started a blog called VC Confidential. I’ve gotten to know Matt through my investment in FeedBurner –

March 9, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Why the Apple iTunes Movie Store And Its DRM Sucks

Once a year, the Feld men over 5 feet tall (me, my brother Daniel, my dad, my uncle Charlie, and my cousins Jon and Kenny) go away for the weekend

March 7, 2006 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Even VC's Can Build Ajax Applications

Scott Maxwell – a partner at Insight Venture Partners – demonstrates his prowness with Ajax.

March 5, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

I Love Robots

My fraternity brother Colin Angle – the CEO of iRobot (I was his pledge trainer – that’s my claim to fame) was on Cramer’s Mad Money yesterday. He did well

March 3, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld