Meeting The Numbers

Fred Wilson has a great weekly series called VC Cliche of the Week – this week’s post is on meeting the numbers. It’s worth a slow and thoughtful read. I

August 4, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Gold Systems Speech-Powered Password Reset Solution

On Monday, Gold Systems announced the release of the Gold Systems Speech-Powered Password Reset product, based on Microsoft Speech Server 2004 R2. This is a product Gold Systems has been

August 4, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

MP3's on Punch Cards, Bluetooth Car Hacks, and Jack Bauer

Some fun nerd facts for you on this gloomy Wednesday morning in Homer, Alaska (where is the fucking sun?) How many punch cards would it take to represent a 3–minute

August 3, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Technorati's State of the Blogosphere Report

Dave Sifry – the CEO of Technorati – has published his latest State of the Blogosphere in two posts: Part 1: Blog Growth and Part 2: Posting Volume – that looks

August 2, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Google Maps – High-Yield Detonation Effects Simulator

I’m fascinated with a Google Maps mashups (I prefer “mashup” to “hack”). Having recently read 109 East Palace (yet another very good history of the Manhattan P

August 1, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Initial Public Offering Shares Purchase

Jason and I are planning to finish strong with some serious stuff in our term sheet series, but we figured we’d put one more term in that has us sniggling

July 28, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

NewsGator Enterprise Server Performance Happiness

Greg Reinacker has a tease up about NewsGator Enterprise Server, which is currently in beta and marching quickly toward release. Pretty (and satisfying) graph) We’ve gotten a lot of help [

July 28, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Putting it All Together: Business Structures and Financing New Media Ventures

Anyone that knows me knows I love to talk (I also love to sit quietly and ponder things – ah – the duality of being me.) Another duality – I

July 28, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

State Government Stupidity Concerning Email

A few days ago, I wrote some thoughts on the war on spam. Today Matt Blumberg has an insightful post up on what’s going on in several state legislatures concerning

July 28, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Spin Sucks

I hate the notion of “spin” when applied to articulating what’s going on. I especially hate spin when it gets in the way (in the middle of, in front of)

July 27, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld