October 2008
63 posts
iPhone Application Development →
Stanford has put all the course material for CS 193P - iPhone Application Programming up on the web. If you are developing an iPhone app, or considering it, the course looks like it has a huge…
Bye Bye Business Method Patents →
While it’s not over yet as the Supreme Court might weight in, the Federal Court Kills Patents on Business Methods. I haven’t read things carefully yet (I’ll leave that for the bathroom this…
Volunteering - Be a pretend patient for hospital... →
Round Two of The VC (and Entrepreneur) Advice on... →
VentureBeat had a Downturn RoundTable yesterday consisting of a panel of VCs and an panel of entrepreneurs giving their advice on what to do to whether to current economic crisis. I found the…
The Hedge Fund Essays →
All of the hedge fund (and some of the VC fund) statements I’ve been receiving the past few weeks have long essays in them. I categorize most of them as either (a) marketing, e.g. “look how smart…
What To Do When You Are In A Circular Discussion... →
Q: I am part of a tech start-up that’s in a slight conundrum. In order to place our product in its market, we’ve had to provide it to customers free of charge. Now, the majority of our revenue…
Volunteering - Be a pretend patient for hospital... →
Anti-Charity →
I was talking to Andrew Hyde over at the Boulder.me Job Fair and a few of the folks I ran into busted my chops (in a good way) about my publicly declared jihad on my weight. For those of you…
Chess, Clouds, Startups, and Other Things →
If you thought the reason I haven’t been doing a Daily Reading post lately was because I didn’t feel like adding more to the endless stream of political noise, global economic crisis, and the…
Declaring A Jihad on My Weight →
With a nod to a line given to me from a recent television show that I enjoy, I’m declaring a jihad on my weight. I’ve struggled with my weight for the past 15 years. I was a skinny person until I…
Andrew Sullivan on Blogging →
I regularly get the “why do you blog” question. I also regularly get “thank you for blogging” notes (thank you for the thank you notes.) I’m a fan on Andrew Sullivan - he has a magnificent article…
What's Your Burn Rate Mean? →
Today’s great post is from Fred Wilson and is titled The Survival Matrix. Fred and his partners at Union Square Ventures give you a quantitative way to determine the level at which you should…
iPhone and Tasks →
My iPhone 3G continues to delight me. For all of you naysayers out there (e.g. “eh - Feld’s Mac Fetish rears its head again - he’ll be done with it in a week and give it back to Ross), you are…
Encourage Amy to Blog →
I love it when my wife Amy blogs. She’s an amazing writer and has a much wider range of intellectual interests than me. I often refer to her as my personal CD-ROM; whenever I need information on…
Encourage The FCC To Improve the Internet →
If you’d like to do something political that has nothing to do with the upcoming elections, read through Tom Evslin’s post Act Now for Better Internet Access. Then go sign the online petition…
It's The Ride Counts →
I spent the past 10 days on the road in a bunch of different cities (New York, Bar Harbor, Boston, Westford, New York again, Tysons Corner, Alexandria, Owings Mills) doing a bunch of different…
Who You Deal With and How You Deal With Them →
Two great posts on this lovely day in Boulder, Colorado. The first is Due Diligence Reveals All - To The VCby Jeff Bussgang at Flybridge Capital Partners. Jeff explains the three stages to…
Loving Brightkite for the iPhone →
One of the TechStars 2007 companies is Brightkite. Brightkite is a real time location-based social network. I travel a lot and have always wanted an easy way to broadcast where I am at any…
Clouditude →
A friend of mine has been going deep on the entire cloud computing ecosystem as he works through some ideas for a new company. He coined a term “clouditude” a few days ago and send me his…
Running and My Professional Self →
Yesterday, I got the following question via email: “I was wondering if you think running has had a long-term impact on your professional self? Does it help keep you focused and motivated while you…
Publishers - Put Your News on the iPhone →
I’m still loving my iPhone. It’s been around two months now, so I think this thing is finally going to stick and I’ll use an Apple product regularly. My regular iPhone app usage is increasing to…
MIT Venture Capital Conference Entrepreneur... →
Having lived through the last major tech downturn (precipitated by our friend, the Internet bubble), one of the big lessons that I learned was to steadily play through. Specifically, I’ve reached…
Legal Lexicon for an Economic Meltdown →
Today’s special guest post is from Sarah Reed of Lowenstein Sandler PC. Sarah is a good friend and collaborator with my partner Jason on the NVCA Model Legal Document task force. She also…
Defrag is Around the Corner →
The Defrag Conference is happening on Monday 11/3 and Tuesday 11/4. I’m totally psyched - Eric Norlin has put together a killer agenda. The list of people coming that I can’t wait to see and…
Sustainability Symposium sponsored by EFCO - Nov... →
Mount Desert Island Marathon →
Maine has been conquered by the Feld Marathon Machine. I finished my 13th marathon on Sunday - the Mount Desert Island Marathon that started at Bar Harbor, Maine. It was hilly. …
Flash of Genius →
Tomorrow is Marathon #13 - the Mount Desert Island Marathon in Bar Harbor, Maine. As part of my pre-marathon tradition, Amy and I relax at a movie the day before. Today’s was Flash of Genius…
I Prefer Extremistan →
This morning, I read two wonderful essays on the web - one by Warren Buffet and one by Paul Graham. Warren Buffett: Buy American. I Am. Paul Graham: Why to Start a Startup in a Bad…
Going On A Trip →
No - not that kind of trip, although it might have made watching the debates last night more entertaining. I’m hitting the road for 10 days to travel our great country, check out main street, see…
The 2008 Esprit Awards →
An annual institution in Boulder occurred last week - the Boulder Chamber of Commerce Esprit Awards. A bunch of my friends were winners this year and - since they were all nice enough to call…
Welcome RRE Ventures to the Blogosphere →
The “new VC entrants into the blogosphere” has slowed over the past 12 months. In addition, the decay curve of many of the newest VC bloggers looks very similar to the decay curve of nuclear waste,…
It's Monday. Do You Know What Your VC Is Doing? →
A well worn tradition of most venture capital firms is the Monday Meeting. While there are several variations of it, including having it the meeting on Tuesday or Friday in an effort to be…
Let's Get Practical →
Ok, by now you’ve read 3,127 blog posts either talking about the coming current downturn credit crisis recession coming reconfiguration of all things as we’ve known them. You’ve studied…
A Weekend Full of Rock Band 2 →
And now for something completely different. No - this isn’t going to be yet another blog post on how you, the entrepreneur, should react to the credit crisis. That’s later today. Instead, this is…
How Does the Current Macro Economy Affect Venture... →
We’ve gotten many emails over the past few days wondering how the meltdown is going to affect VCs and startups. The quick answer is “not much of an effect - so far.” Just linking around, here are…
Social Computing Best Practices →
If you are interested in Social Computing in the Enterprise, NewsGator has just put up a Social Computing Best Practices & Resourceson their web site. In addition to a bunch of NewsGator…
Gloom and Doom - or Capital Efficiency →
Fred has a fantastic blog up titled Capital Efficiency Finds It’s Moment. It - combined with his posts My Thoughts On “Startup Depression” - are full of suggestions that entrepreneurs should…
Build Trust By Staying Steady In Rocky Times →
I just got off the phone with a bank that I work with on a number of companies we have an investment in. They are in the category of banks that aren’t really impacted (at least not yet) by the…
Ok Entrepreneurs, Time to Step Up →
Of all the macro events happening in the world, there are two occurring in the US right now that seem to be dominating most people’s thinking: (1) the US election and (2) the credit crisis (or…
It's The Economy, Stupid →
Where is James Carville when you need him? Finally, Obama is taking a line from Clinton’s playbook.
My Quest for WordPress Plugins →
As part of Automattic’s acquisition of Intense Debate, I committed to convert all of my blogs over to WordPress. The process has begun and should be done soon. In the mean time, I’m on a quest…
Ok Entrepreneurs, Time to Step Up →
Of all the macro events happening in the world, there are two occurring in the US right now that seem to be dominating most people’s thinking: (1) the US election and (2) the credit crisis (or…
It's The Economy, Stupid →
Where is James Carville when you need him? Finally, Obama is taking a line from Clinton’s playbook.
My Quest for WordPress Plugins →
As part of Automattic’s acquisition of Intense Debate, I committed to convert all of my blogs over to WordPress. The process has begun and should be done soon. In the mean time, I’m on a quest…
Social Networking Seminar at ATLAS at CU Boulder →
I love charts like the following - so many pretty colors and funny names. Matt Galligan, the co-founder of SocialThing (now part of AOL) is giving a talk on Social Networking:…
Gnip v2.0 Launches →
Earlier this week, Gnip put v2.0 of their service into production. TechCrunch has a nice post up titled Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model. Gnip 2.0 has four big new features. …
Help Colorado Dominate The DonorsChoose Blogger... →
Thanks to Micah Baldwin, a bunch of Colorado bloggers (including me) are putting up DonorsChoose widgets on their blogs. Our goal in Colorado is to displace Fred Wilson as king of last years…
Social Networking Seminar at ATLAS at CU Boulder →
I love charts like the following - so many pretty colors and funny names. Matt Galligan, the co-founder of SocialThing (now part of AOL) is giving a talk on Social Networking:…
Gnip v2.0 Launches →
Earlier this week, Gnip put v2.0 of their service into production. TechCrunch has a nice post up titled Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model. Gnip 2.0 has four big new features. …
Help Colorado Dominate The DonorsChoose Blogger... →
Thanks to Micah Baldwin, a bunch of Colorado bloggers (including me) are putting up DonorsChoose widgets on their blogs. Our goal in Colorado is to displace Fred Wilson as king of last years…
