FeedDemon 2.0 Is Coming

I’ve been using FeedDemon 1.6 RC2 (the version that synchronizes with NewsGator Online) for the past two months as my feed reader. I monitor over 400 blogs a day and

December 26, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

409A – Fixes, Glitches and Hitches

An inevitable question to ask is “okay, the valuation firm came back and said the FMV of the last option grants should have been $.25 and the grant price was

December 26, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Candy Bar Sex

The Internet (and the candy industry) is always good for a little sex. It was another PayDay and I was tired of Mr. Goodbar. Then, I saw Miss Hershey throwing

December 23, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

National Venture Capital Association Comments on 409A

Every VC’s friendly neighborhood trade association (the NVCA – National Venture Capital Association) just submitted an extensive and comprehensive comment letter on 409A to the IRS.

December 22, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

More on Vijay The World's Most Desperate VC

Today, Vijay discovers the value of a napkin. Thanks Anita.

December 22, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Patriot Act Nonsense

I just got a call from Morgan Stanley. Apparently the account that I have there – which has a P.O. Box as an address – now needs a non-P.O. Box

December 19, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Google, Microsoft, AOL, and King Kong

I’ve been closely watching the saga of AOL’s dance with Microsoft and Google as it’s akin to seeing an aging quarterback take the field during the playoffs and charge down

December 19, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Open Source or Closed Source?

Alan Shimel has a good post on a recent release of a formerly “open source” product called Nessus. With the version 3.0 release, the authors abandoned the GPL license and

December 18, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

409A – An Example

While we’ll be spending plenty of time talking about 409A in the abstract, Jason and I thought we’d give you a real life example of the analysis for one of

December 18, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Outlook Map Display

In the category of “duh – that’s been there for a while”, I got a nice tip from TheOfficeWeblog about Outlook’s ability to automatically generate a map from an address.&n

December 18, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld