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

Spyware – Google weighs in

Google weighed in on the Spyware problem with a recent Google-blog on the issue. While it’s obviously self-serving based on Google’s core advertising business being competitive with the re

May 20, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Spyware is officially out of control

Ok – it’s been out of control for a while. Spam continues at epidemic proportions. Spim (IM Spam) is starting to emerge. Blam (Blog Spam) has exploded on the scene.

May 19, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Problems with American Supremacy (Part 1)

George Soros has written an incredible book called The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power. It’s actually two books in one: Part 1 is A Critical

May 17, 2004 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Philanthropy and <a href='https://www.onpoint-marketing.com/generation-x.htm'>Generation X</a>

I had lunch today with Gary Zeff who runs Boulder Open Studios. In addition to talking about Open Studios – which is a very cool thing for the local Boulder

May 17, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld