2 Billion Served

One of my companies – Quova – just had a month where they served over 2 billion queries from their customers. That’s 64m queries / day (or 750 / second)

April 4, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Zen Judaism

As a member of a quarter Jewish, half Atheist, and a quarter Theraveda Vipassana Buddhist household (there’s only two of us in my household – me and Amy – you

April 4, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Federer and Agassi on the Burj Al Arab Heli-Pad

Having watched Federer magically survive the onslaught of Rafael Nadal and eventually demolish him in the fifth set yesterday at the Nasdaq-100 Open (ok – I watch a little TV –

April 4, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Compensation for Board Members

Several people have recently asked me variants on the question “How should I compensate a board member in my young private company?” I’ve experienced this question from all sides, having

April 3, 2005 · 6 min · Brad Feld

The Buffett Letters

I landed in Paris today to visit Amy for a week (she’s spending six weeks over here to immerse herself in French). I usually get the sleep thing right on international flights [&

April 2, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

DAM That Was Amazing

Amy and I are huge supporters (and collectors) of the visual arts. The Denver Art Museum is in the process of building an extension to the museum which is a

March 31, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

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