Dan Bricklin on Patenting Visicalc

Dan Bricklin has a thoughtful post on software patents as a follow up to a bunch of stuff that’s gone around the web the past few weeks since the NY Times

August 14, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Supervillians Run Linux

Chris asked Ross this morning if he could switch us all to Linux so we could be supervillians. Even Amy laughed when she saw it.

August 13, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Unilateral or Serial Monogamy

Earlier this week I did a brief post on the “no shop agreement” that is a common feature in a term sheet. I compared signing a no shop to the

August 12, 2005 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Oil at $67 a Barrel?

I just noticed that the price of crude oil topped $67 a barrel. When the fuck did that happen? In the early 1980’s, my first programming job (when I was

August 12, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Judy's Book + Google Maps

My long time friend Andy Sack’s company Judy’s Book has just released “Judy’s Books Maps” (they claim to have had countless focus groups and thousands of hours of brainst

August 10, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Pirillo vs. Ponzi

On my run today, I listened to a hilarious podcast from Chris Pirillo and and his wife Ponzi. The first fifteen minutes topped Jon Stewart on the hysterical meter as

August 10, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Fred Wilson on "The Weight of Being a Leader"

Fred has another great post up this week in his VC Cliche of the Week column on the cliche “he’s got the weight of the company on his shoulders.” If

August 10, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

How Would The Civil War Have Ended If Lincoln Had PowerPoint?

I have a long set of rants about how most PowerPoint presentations suck. Every now and then, I see a great one, but most of the time I’m just tortured

August 9, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Infinite Book

I have my wife back. Amy has been lost in a tome (1079 pages) called Infinite Jest (by David Foster Wallace) for the past 10 days (about nine days longer than it

August 8, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: No Shop Agreement

As an entrepreneur, the way to get the best deal for a round of financing is to have multiple options. If you’ve been a studious reader of our term sheet

August 8, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld