We Suck Less

I was in an upbeat board meeting yesterday for one of my growing companies that is having a good year. While our business is in good shape, one of the

May 27, 2004 · 4 min · Brad Feld

What do my blog stats really mean?

One of the segments of the blogsphere that is starting to appear is analytics. I was the initial investor in NetGenesis (now owned by SPSS) and Mobius Venture Capital was

May 25, 2004 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Finali Names new VP of Professional Services

As I continue to play around with blogs, I’m trying to figure out what is useful stuff to post and what isn’t. My blog is obviously one way for me

May 25, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The River gets Blammed – for real

There have been a raft of Blam (blog spam) posts recently. To date, all the Blam I have seen has been in comment posts. There are lots of different approaches

May 25, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Cyanea Systems Completes BEA Validation Program

Today, one of my companies – Cyanea – a leading developer of software that helps companies effectively monitor and manage distributed and mainframe-based applications, announced that Cyane

May 25, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

An insult to anyone that has run a marathon

In The Slowing of The Marathon, Dan Ackman discusses how the median male runner in the 1983 NY Marathon clocked a time of 3:41:49 (8:27 / mile) while the median

May 23, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Ugly Americans

Nope – this is not yet another post about Iraq. I just finished reading Ugly Americans : The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets

May 23, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

On Being the CEO – Henry V and The Cover-up

Jerry Colonna has a great post on being a CEO.

May 21, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Kurt Vonnegut still rocks at 81

I don’t care whether you agree or disagree with Kurt Vonnegut – he’s still an amazing and provocative writer at age 81. His essay Cold Turkey was sent to me

May 21, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Personal Blogging = Geocities 2004?

Remember Geocities? It was one of our very successful investments (thanks Jerry Colonna and Fred Wilson). Geocities is alive (and well?) at Yahoo!. Generally speaking, pretty scary looking stuff. But

May 21, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld