Welcome Jim Lejeal to the blogverse

My friend Jim Lejeal just launched his blog. Jim is a very accomplished entrepreneur. His first company – Link-VTC – was acquired by Frontier Communications (now part of Global

September 2, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Sidekick II is almost here

I’m a cell phone junkie. For years, I switched every six months or so as the newest thing came out and I had to try it. I’ve been in love

September 1, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

LiveMessage – 10,000 Beta Bloggers in the First Week

MessageCast announced that its LiveMessage Blogger alert service has gotten 10,000 subscribers in its first week. Some cool blogs such as Bink.nu are using it. To see how it works,

August 31, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Is Free Web Conferencing Really Free?

Paul Berberian, chairman and founder of Raindance, wrote a provocative post today called Free Conferencing is Theft. Paul knows this business extremely well – I was an early investor

August 31, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Summer is over

We’re back home in Colorado. It’s radically different to wake up in Eldorado Canyon instead of Homer, but equally beautiful, in a different way.

August 30, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Corporate Introduction to RSS

Last month Mediathink published a White Paper title RSS: The Next Big Thing On Line. It’s the best starter piece that I’ve seen so far for people – especially in

August 26, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Payroll – Bi-weekly vs. Semi-monthly

I was on a board call for a company today that pays their employees bi-weekly (every two weeks). At some point in time there was a rationale for this since

August 26, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Fantasy vs. Reality

Fred wrote two stories on the cliche “if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.” I saw it right after I responded to a few comments on

August 25, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Berberian's Alaska Trip

My friend Paul Berberian and his friend Paul Wareham did a round trip from Colorado to Alaska earlier this month. They stopped off and visited us for a few days

August 25, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

To Participate or Not (Participating Preferences)

When I wrote my first post on the structure and financial components of a typical venture capital investment – where I described Liquidation Preferences – I alluded to the concept

August 24, 2004 · 9 min · Brad Feld