DataPower Acquired By IBM

On Wednesday, IBM announced that it had acquired DataPower. Bill Burnham (who originally did the investment for us when he was at Mobius) has a nice set of posts on his

October 20, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Wall of Voodoo

No – this isn’t going to be a screed on the crazy shit (at ridiculous prices) some of my early stage compatriots are doing these days. On my run today

October 18, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

ADPrentice

I had an awesome day on Saturday. I spent the weekend with my fraternity at MIT (the Lambda Phi Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi) on an undergraduate retreat called ADPrentice

October 16, 2005 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Letter of Intent: Structure of a Deal

Jason and I have engaged in a little foreplay with you in our Letter of Intent series. While you might think the length of time that has passed since my last

October 16, 2005 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Continuous Partial Attention

Clive Thompson has an outstanding article in today’s New York Times called Meet The Life Hackers. He describes the problem that affects so many people today – the complete overload [

October 16, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Microsoft Emerging Business Team (EBT) Blogging

Today must be my day to catch up on “friends blogging.” I was at Microsoft earlier this week for my three times a year “Microsoft Emerging Business Team (EBT) technical

October 15, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Peter Rip on the Web 2.0 Entrepreneur Bubble

Peter Rip (Leapfrog Ventures managing director) – who has just started his blog – has yet another warning on “problematic behavior” that is emerging around the Web 2.

October 15, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

StillSecure After All These Years

My long time friend Alan Shimel, Chief Strategy Officer at StillSecure, has started a blog. I first met Alan in NY when I was co-chairman of Sage Networks. We had

October 15, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Web Design Mistakes

I was at a company the other day that I’m considering investing in. They walked me through their v2 web design and we did a detailed review of it. While

October 15, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Verizon BroadBand Access – Incredible

I got a Verizon BroadBand Access card (formerly known as “EVDO”) 12 days ago. I’ve been on the road non-stop since then. I can’t imagine life without it. As I

October 13, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld