Dr. Evil's Island – Kimball Musk

Kimbal Musk just put up a blog about his brother Elon’s rocket launch that is scheduled for tomorrow on Kwajalein Atoll. I wrote about it yesterday – Kimbal has a lot

November 24, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Jim Collins on Peter Drucker

Jim Collins has an outstanding short essay titled “Lessons From A Student Of Life” as a tribute to Peter Drucker in the 11/28/05 Business Week.

November 24, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Ringtones By Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram has accomplished some remarkable things in his life, including creating Mathematica, a very successful private company called Wolfram Research, a set of amazing mathematics web sites i

November 24, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Business Plan – The Industry: Introduction

In my last post in the Business Plan series, I promised to tell you about “The Industry”. This is an important early section of a business plan that frames the overall indu

November 23, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The War Room

Think back to 1992. “It’s the economy, stupid!” Amy and I watched The War Room tonight, the brilliant documentary of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential camp

November 23, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Technorati Is Fast Again

If you haven’t used Technorati for a while because of either performance or accuracy issues, try it again. Dave Sifry – Technorati’s CEO – has a post up describing their

November 23, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

FeedBurner's "Feed For Thought" Series

If you want something chewy to read over Thanksgiving, I recommend FeedBurner’s thoughtful piece titled How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued and consumed (also available

November 23, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

SpaceX To Launch the Falcon 1 on Friday 11/25

On Friday 11/25, Elon Musk’s new company, SpaceX will launch their first rocket, the Falcon 1, at 1pm PST. I got a note from Elon’s brother Kimball – who now

November 23, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Miami Airport Is A Shithole

After a magnificent long weekend in the Bahamas, my return to American soil was via the Miami Airport. Blech. The best part of the airport was the landing on the

November 23, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

I Am A Sellout

On Sunday, I discovered via The New Yorker (11/14/05, p. 38) that “... ‘Samuel Alito’ is an anagram of ‘I am a sellout’ …”

November 22, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld