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

Letter of Intent: Escrow

Jason and I continue our Letter of Intent series with one of our “favorite” clauses (sarcasm intended). The escrow is another hotly negotiated term that often is left ambigu

January 9, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The VC and The Fisherman

Eric Norlin emailed me an old VC joke that I thought I’d start your day off with. I put it in the category of “it’s an oldy, but a goody.”

January 9, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Internet Is Broken

I still read a handful of print magazines (you gotta do something in the bathroom) – one my favorites is Technology Review (MIT’s Magazine). This month’s cover story was T

January 8, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Stale Blogs

Jeff Jarvis took some shots (well deserved) at VC bloggers and Ben Casnocha followed up with his own commentary. It motivated me to clean up my blogroll (sorry – no top

January 8, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Survey: Environmental Uncertainty in Global Business

I received a nice note and an invitation from Bill Prado at Green Mountain College to participate in a survey he’s doing on Environmental Uncertainty in Global Business. He asked

January 8, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld