Book Review: Ultramarathon Man

Dean Karnazes, the writer and subject of Ultramarathon Man, is a wild man. As the leader of Team Dean (which has a nice support crew consisting of his family, but

March 27, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Boulder Philharmonic – Conductor Feld

Last year at about this time I hosted a fundraiser for the Boulder Philharmonic and was the guest conductor. Prior to this I knew nothing about conducting and – while

March 27, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Books: On Intelligence

There was plenty of buzz last week about the new company – Numenta – that Jeff Hawkins (inventor of Graffiti and the PalmPilot, Visor, and Treo products) and Donna Dubinsky

March 26, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Unexpected Drivers of VoIP Adoption Growth

A long time friend, Shawn Broderick (first employee at my first company Feld Technologies and founder/CEO of Genetic Anomalies – acquired by THQ), has started up a new company called

March 25, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Feed Games

I’m playing around with some of the characteristics of my Feedburner feed so I apologize in advance (and ask for your indulgence) if you get multiple copies of posts. Things

March 25, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Redemption Rights

If you are avid followers of the TV series 24 (as Jason and I are), you’ll recognize that the next item in our term sheet series – Redemption at Option

March 25, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Man Smuggles Own Art Into MoMA

If you thought it was challenging determining the quality of art these days (e.g. does it – or does it not – belong in MoMA), you apparently aren’t the only

March 25, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Automating My Compute Infrastructure

I woke up this morning thinking about Plaxo and my computer. I’m been thinking lately about the number of manual things that I do that my computer should take care

March 24, 2005 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Dividends

As our term sheet series unfolds (almost as exciting as 24, eh? – if you’ve been reading the last few days I bet you figured out that I recently had

March 23, 2005 · 5 min · Brad Feld

How to Start a Company and Why VCs Suck

Paul Graham – founder of Viaweb (bought by Yahoo! in the late 1990s) and author of Hackers & Painters – has two new excellent essays up. While I don’t know

March 22, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld