Amazon's Scorpion Problem

I expect most of you know the fable of the scorpion and the frog, but if you don’t, it goes like this (quoted from Wikipedia): “A scorpion asks a frog

July 29, 2014 · 6 min · Brad Feld

How Much Do IT Folks Work? Take A Survey And Potentially Win A Fitbit

Our portfolio company JumpCloud is running a survey to dig deeper into the professional lives of IT folks and their move to DevOps. If you are open to sharing your thoughts

June 23, 2014 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Apply Today For TechStars Cloud 2013

This is the second year that TechStars is running a thematic accelerator in Texas focused just on cloud computing. At Foundry Group, we believe in thematic investing both as a

September 20, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Microsoft Accelerator (Powered By TechStars) Is A Hit And It's Expanding

The first cycle of The Microsoft Accelerator, powered by TechStars, is in its final run up to demo day. The first program has focused on Kinect applications and has some

June 19, 2012 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Welcome to Brad's Amazing Cloud

I’m now officially in the cloud business, courtesy of my friends at Standing Cloud (we are investors.) Standing Cloud delivers cloud application management solutions for cloud service providers,

April 10, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Apply To TechStars Cloud Now

Are you building a cloud startup? If so, apply to TechStars Cloud today! Earlier this month TechStars announced its newest accelerator program, TechStars Cloud, and we are looking for the best cloud [

October 11, 2011 · 1 min · Brad Feld

StillSecure Announces Cloud Security Solution and Partnership with SoftLayer

StillSecure has been nailing it in the service provider segment with deals with XO, ViaWest, CoreSite, and others recently. StillSecure fundamentally believes that service providers – telcos, datacent

September 26, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

MakerBot Deals, TechStars Cloud, and Convertible Notes

Before we invested in MakerBot, we bought and assembled a Thing-O-Matic. When I say we, I mean me, Jason, and Ross. It took us about 20 hours (Jason and I

September 13, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Backing Up Your Google Apps Data

I find it endlessly entertaining that people say things like “I don’t need to back up my data anymore because it’s in the cloud.” These people have never experienced a

June 2, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Learning the Right Lessons from the Amazon Outage

As most nerds know, Skynet gained self-awareness last week and decided as its first act to mess with Amazon Web Services, creating havoc for anyone that wanted to check-in on

April 25, 2011 · 9 min · Brad Feld