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Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded In...
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Posted: Monday 30 August 2010
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We've shifted into a new zone in the world of software patent stupidity. A few weeks ago, Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents they got when they acquired Sun. Last week, Paul Allen sued 11 major software companies, including Google, over four patents that were granted to his now defunct Interval Research [...]
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Posted: Monday 30 August 2010
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Every major software or web company I've ever been involved in has had a catastrophic outage of some sort. I view it as a right of passage - when this happens when your company is young and no one notices, it gives you a chance to get better. But eventually you'll have one when you [...]
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Posted: Sunday 29 August 2010
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Entrepreneurial communities grow up around smart people. Whenever someone in state or local government asks me what they can do to accelerate entrepreneurship, I always tell them to put as much money and energy as they can into education. If you build a broad base of smart, inquisitive, curious people that are long term members [...]
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Posted: Sunday 29 August 2010
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The blogo-twitter-sphere erupted this weekend in response to an article in the WSJ on Friday titled Addressing The Lack Of Women Leading Tech Start-ups. I missed most of it as I was pretty heads down this weekend going through the final page proofs of the upcoming book "Do More Faster." TechCrunch / Arrington wrote a [...]
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Posted: Friday 27 August 2010
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Well, I've learned a lot about how a bill becomes a law on my journey to try to turn the Startup Visa idea into a law. And yes - it's a lot like how I learned about it on Schoolhouse Rock about 35 years ago. It's been a little less than a year since I [...]
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Posted: Thursday 26 August 2010
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There are two positions that I find difficult to fill in Boulder in the various companies we are investors in. The first is a real product manager (PM). We've got a bunch of great ones in Boulder, but there appears to be 100% employment for them and I don't poach from myself as that seems [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 25 August 2010
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Today I concluded that my Gmail experiment is working nicely. In addition, we figured out (thanks to Dave Michaels) how to wire up feld.com to Google Apps without breaking all the other feld.com users that are being served of an Exchange server. So, breaking rule #1 of all migrations, Ross and I flipped the switch [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 25 August 2010
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Sometimes Colbert is priceless. Well - most of the time. This one had Amy and I laughing hard today. Enjoy your five minute break from monitoring your social media and email to see if something important is going on. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word - Control-Self-Delete www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 24 August 2010
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I'm banging away on a bunch of new things these days. I've happily switched to a Mac, am halfway through my week of Gmail, and am contemplating what new thing to try next week. I've always been a tech junky and love to play with new stuff. I'm quick to set up an account on [...]
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Posted: Tuesday 24 August 2010
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My week-long experiment with Gmail continues with my first big bump happening last night at around 9pm. After sending a lot of emails (apparently 500) I received an error message "You have reached a limit for sending mail". I tried again. This perplexed me. So I clicked on the link. I read through it and [...]
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Posted: Monday 23 August 2010
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Last week I co-hosted a lunch for Jared Polis with Kyle Lefkoff at Boulder Ventures which Jud Valeski covered nicely in his post titled Luncheon with Jared Polis. Jared was one of the first people I met when I moved to Boulder (thanks to an introduction from my long time friend Dave Jilk) and we've [...]
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Posted: Sunday 22 August 2010
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In 2009, the word that finally got on my nerves was "space", as in "our product is in the X space" or "the space we are going after is X." It seems like the word "space" managed to find its way into every paragraph. The annoying word of 2010 appears to be "platform", as in [...]
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Posted: Saturday 21 August 2010
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Last week SimpleGeo and their partner Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. It's absolutely beautiful and a stunning example of what you can do with the SimpleGeo API. They've released the Polymaps source code on GitHub so any developer can quickly see how the API is used, play [...]
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Posted: Friday 20 August 2010
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I had a new experience today. At 7am I had my first MRI at the Boulder Community Hospital. I was a little nervous, although I'm not entirely sure why. I was in and out in 45 minutes - it was fascinating. I hurt my lower back about five months ago (actually, exactly on March 13th [...]
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Posted: Thursday 19 August 2010
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Ever since I switched to the Mac, I've had N (where N is a suitably large number) tell me that I should switch to Gmail from Exchange. I finally decided to try it for a week and see if it works for me. Given my Mac experience - where I had to commit and really [...]
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Posted: Thursday 19 August 2010
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I get a lot of inbound resumes from folks looking to relocate to Boulder. I also get a lot of requests from local CEOs for candidates for various positions. I do my best at connecting folks, but I'm sure plenty of connections slip through the cracks. So - David Cohen of TechStars (who has the [...]
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Posted: Saturday 14 August 2010
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My partner Seth Levine has an outstanding post up today about the freemium model. It's titled Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product and is worth going and reading right now. He covers a bunch of stuff, nicely divided into the following topics: Beware of too many [...]
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Posted: Friday 13 August 2010
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On Wednesday I did two interviews with Mark Suster - one for This Week and Venture Capital and then one before the LaunchPad LA event. TechZulu recorded and broadcasted the second one. The first three minutes are kind of funny as we didn't know they were recording so we were horsing around talking about funny [...]
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Posted: Friday 13 August 2010
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Now that my complete and total infatuation with my Mac has worn off and shifted into delight and love, I'm starting to explore the weaknesses of the Mac for not other reason than I'm trying to figure out where the real rough edges are. So - if you are a Mac user, I'm very interested [...]
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Posted: Thursday 12 August 2010
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I'm totally wiped out after a full day in LA that included a board meeting at Oblong, a 75 minute interview on This Week in VC, strange drinks at Volcano Tea with some LA entrepreneurs, another interview on TechZulu before the Launchpad LA event, and then a Launchpad LA event. Mark Suster - who is [...]
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