The Trough of Disillusionment

Seth Levine has a great post up about the dynamics of exit value in a startup. If you wonder why there are so many relatively quick deals for startups under

January 12, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

New Media Summit – Tonight in Boulder

If you happen to be in Boulder tonight, Metzger Associates is putting on a “New Media Summit” tonight at The City Club (885 Arapahoe) from 4pm to 7pm. It’ll be

January 11, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

I Bet The Good Guys Have Mac's This Season on 24

Jack Bauer does the voice over for the new Mac / Intel ads. It just dawned on me that The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is simply the reverse of

January 11, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Desperate Entrepreneurs

I’ve never really gotten into Desperate Housewives (I’m – well – more of a 24 guy). However, I saw a note forwarded to me today from another VC that is definitely [&

January 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

PDP Planet

Paul Allen (of Microsoft fame) has put up a web site for his collection of Digital Equipment Corporation mainframes and minicomputers. The collection has a real history, some pretty pictures, [&

January 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Deal Bookends – Truveo and SearchFox

Two things happened at both ends of the spectrum today in deal land. A little company named Truveo was acquired by AOL and a little company named SearchFox announced it will shut

January 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Apple 8086

The whole world knows that Apple officially announced it’s first Intel-based products today. Simultaneously, Apple stock closed at a price of $80.86 (it has traded up to $81.89 i

January 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The We Media Deal

Matt Blumberg has a good thoughtful post up on the notion of the “We Media Deal.” Matt spends a lot of time paying attention to the transition from “Old Media”

January 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The 24 Drinking Game

Ah – 24 Season 5 starts on Sunday. To celebrate (and warm up), we are planning having a 24 party starting Friday night. We’ll toss the first disk from Season

January 9, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

NewsGator Online Gets Ajaxy

NewsGator has been gradually releasing new inline features for NewsGator Online. If you haven’t played with it in a while and are tired of your existing web-based RSS reader, give

January 9, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld