February 2005 and Everyone is Hard at Work

There was a flurry of news from several of my portfolio companies the last few days. For those of you that track what I’m up to, here it is: Xaffire

February 2, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Untied Airlines

I fly United – well – a LOT (yeah – I’m a 100K Premium Exec again this year) since I live in Colorado and United has something like 75% of the gates

February 1, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge – Rated R for Revenue Conference

My friend Ron Schmelzer – the CEO of Zapthink and co-founder of Channelwave – pointed out an upcoming MIT Enterprise Forum (Cambridge, MA) conference called “Rated R for Revenue: Sel

January 30, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Computer Forensics – Does Your Used Hard Drive Still Have Data On It?

Tom Bartel – a long time colleague going back to the early days of Email Publishing in the mid-1990s and a hardcore privacy advocate currently working at Return Path – mentioned

January 29, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

eWork and ProSavvy Merge

ProSavvy – a company I’ve been on the board of since 1996 – announced this week that they have merged with eWork. The combined company (called eWork) is the leader

January 27, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Ideal Board Meetings

I had a great board meeting today at Quova and a near perfect board meeting at Rally last week. While it’s a pleasure to be involved in both companies since

January 25, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Caddyshack

Fortunately for my wife Amy, she’s aware that I’m a 15 year old boy trapped in a 39 year old’s body. So – when Netflix delivers Caddyshack to us, she

January 21, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

MCI Acquires NetSec

We had a good day yesterday at Mobius VC as MCI announced they were acquiring NetSec for approximately $105m. My partner Rex Golding has been involved since NetSec’s first ventur

January 21, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Protective Provisions

As Jason and I continue to work our way through a typical venture capital term sheet, we encounter another key control term – the “protective provisions.” Protective provi

January 18, 2005 · 6 min · Brad Feld

RSS and Blogging on CNBC and in Fortune

RSS and Blogging are starting to permeate mainstream media. It’s both a blessing and a curse when something makes the front cover of the major business rags. In this case,

January 17, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld