More Birthday Wishes Continue to Pile In

Best Haiku of the Day (thanks Dave) terabyte disk drivessoftware a mature marketand Brad is forty Best Photo of the Day (thanks Chris) Best Introspective Thought of the Day (thanks

December 5, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Doing Good By Doing Well

I’ve strongly encouraged my portfolio companies to incorporate “philanthropic activities” into their businesses early in their life. I don’t advocate any particular focus

December 5, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Feature, Product, Company

One of the challenges with early stage companies is determining whether the thing you are creating is a “feature”, a “product”, or a “company”. Of course ever

December 5, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Compensation Benchmarking Project

Are you a company with between 50 and 250 employees, located in a major city (e.g. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas), in any industry, that wants

December 5, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Turning 40

I turned 40 last week. Amy took me to Cabo to the incredible One&Only Pamilla Resort with family and some close friends for an amazing week off hedonistic fun, no blogging, minimal

December 5, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Good Mental Floss – The Camel Club

David Baldacci is in my regular “mental floss” book rotation – whenever one of his books comes out it immediately ends up in the “read when you need a break

November 27, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

It Ought To Be Easier

Lyle Lovett’s “It Ought To Be Easier” was the 195th song on Amy’s iPod Shuffle playlist that I manually recreated for her this morning. Someone at Apple on the iPod

November 27, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Web Is Not A Normalized Relational Database

I had lunch with Stan James on Friday at Pasquini’s Pizzeria. Stan is the creator of Outfoxed and was introduced to me by Seth Goldstein who is one of the

November 27, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Sarbanes-Oxley, the Software Developer, and 404

Nope – I’m not referring to an HTTP 404 error. I’m talking about Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404. If you are a software developer and don’t know what SOX is, it&rs

November 26, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

User Agents

I woke up this morning thinking about User Agents (ok – I was also thinking about Naomi Watts and Sean Penn who were amazing in 21 Grams.) A commenter on

November 26, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld