Turn Your Fans Into Subscribers

Dick Costolo – the CEO of FeedBurner – sent me a link to this great photo last night. FeedBurner exhibited at the Portable Media Expo & Podcasting Conference 2005 this weeke

November 13, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Truth Is The Absolute Defense

As a kid, my parents used to have a monthly gourmet group with a group of friends (they are still doing it monthly 35 years later) where they got together,

November 13, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Sky-Scapes Flourescent Light Diffuser

I can’t stand fluorescent lights. I literally can’t sit in a room with them on for very long without noticing them. For years, people walk by wherever I’m working and

November 12, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Fred Wilson on "The VC's Customer"

Fred Wilson has an awesome blog on The VC’s Customer. The first few sentences summarize the post. Many of the people I know in the venture capital business think their

November 12, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

VentureWeek Podcast – Search

If you like listening to me to talk (hi mom) or are interested in search, Eric Olson has his second VentureWeek podcast titled “Search” up. This one only had two

November 12, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

invisibleSHIELD – iPod Nano Full Body Protector

Ross (and everyone else that has one) appears to love their Nano’s but they have this little annoying “scratching problem.” I’m trying to encourage Ross to stop playi

November 10, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

You're Never Going to Make That Flight

While it’d never play out the way it did in today’s TSA / Patriot Act world, the next time someone says “you’ll never be able to do that”, simply refer them

November 10, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Asset Sale – Heart or Leaves?

My partner Heidi pointed out that the analogy (or is it a metaphor – I can never remember – another one of my brain quirks) that I used in my Letter of

November 10, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Are Customers Your Best "Marketing"?

The recurring theme of the power of word-of-mouth marketing came several times for me yesterday. My day started out with an email from Raj Bhargava, the CEO of StillSecure, that

November 10, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Letter of Intent: Structure – Asset vs. Stock

While price is usually first issue on every seller’s mind, structure should be second. While there only two types of deals (asset deal vs. stock deal), there are numerous structural

November 8, 2005 · 5 min · Brad Feld