Philandering Entrepreneurs or Sour Grapes

In the “best entrepreneur gossip blog post” of the day category, Alan Meckler and the guys from LightReading.com give a public example of the issues in the intellectual exchange that

August 24, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Send Gmail From Any Address

Now – here’s a feature that’s useful for all the Gmail addicts in the world. Now, you can have your “From” address be anything you want for an email you

August 24, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Everyone Is Twittering About Chat

Or is that “everyone is chatting about twittering?” Google released Google Talk yesterday. While it’s an obvious first step, it’s unremarkable. Apparently, in

August 24, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet Series Wrap Up

Jason and I hope you enjoyed reading our term sheet series at least as much as we enjoyed writing it.  While we won’t be competing with our friend Jack Bauer for

August 23, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Indemnification and Assignment

We’re down to our last two sections on a typical VC term sheet. Since they are both things that most entrepreneurs simply live with as part of a financing, we

August 23, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

FeedBlitz – Feed Delivery Via Email

Matt Blumberg posted about his switch to FeedBlitz the other day (from Bloglet). If you receive my blog via email, you’ll notice that you are now receiving it via FeedBlitz

August 23, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Banning the Word "Play"

One of my pet peeves is the trendy overuse (and misuse) of certain words. I’ve railed in the past on the endless use of traction and space by my VC and

August 23, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Metaphor of the Day – Shark Bait

I just IMed a colleague who recently completed a Herculean task. I asked him how it felt to be done. He responded “About like a fish feels as he passes

August 22, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

National Public Radio Explains Why I Care About NCWIT

A short spot on National Public Radio today titled Computer Science: Calling All Women does a super job explaining why I’ve been working with Lucy Sanders on the National Center

August 22, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

ePartners raises $25 million

ePartners – one of my larger portfolio companies – announced today that they have closed a $25 million financing led by Needham Capital Partners. As part of this financing, Howard [&

August 22, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld