If you go to Feld Thoughts, you’ll see a little widget on the right hand side that looks like the following:
This is my “badge” for the FeedBurner Venture Capital network. This a network of all of the Venture Capital bloggers that I could find – I’m the coordinator so if you are a VC blogger and not part of the network, drop me an email. There are now 62 VC bloggers in the network with a daily subscriber reach of over 150,000 people (if you are an advertise
One of my core strategies as a VC has always been to aggressively facilitate conversations between the entrepreneurs that I work with. Over the last 13 years, this has paid off in numerous ways, endless times. A while ago I realized that, in addition to being a lot of fun (usually for all involved), it was a way for me to learn an incredible amount by just watching where the entrepreneurs took the conversations.
I’ve always been fascinated by “CTO’s talking.” Whenever two or more CTO’s are in the room, I want to be part of the conversation. Some of that may have come from my pre-VC life, but I think it’s because there is rarely any gloss on the thought processes as my CTO friends
Cisco just announced that they are open sourcing their network access control client (known as Cisco Trust Agent.) While on the surface it might seem like a generous move, Alan Shimel (at one of my portfolio companies – StillSecure) has a somewhat different point of view.
I’ve noticed an increasing
My friends at the Enthusiast Group are about to launch a new series of sites over the next two months to add to their growing network of enthusiast web sites. YourCycling launched today and is edited by Enthusiast-in-Chief Whitey Debroux, a Boulder, Colorado-based professional road and cyclocross racer who is riding for Team Einstein this season.
YourCycling joins YourRunning (check out my running blog – 50x50 if you c
- O'Reilly Radar > Pipes and Filters for the Internet
Yahoo!'s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet.
- Microsoft Outlines Vision to Enable Secure and Easy Anywhere Access for People and Organizations: Company announces new alliances and product initiatives to help evolve networks, protection and identity and achieve anywhere access.
collaboration on use of Windows CardSpace with the OpenID 2.0 specification. - brad's life - Microsoft & OpenID
Now people ask me what I think about Microsoft supporting it, using their InfoCards as the method of authentication.... I think it's great! - MySpace launch
When I was in business school, all my case studies were about the methods for managing capital intensive firms such as manufacturing companies. ?Most software business plans that I saw in the 1990s included a detailed analysis of capital spending requirements including data center setups, retail channel establishment, and CD manufacturing and production. ??Today, as a software company with a heavy concentration of on-line product delivery, we don't have to worry about inventory, stores, or warehouses. ?Furthermore, the plummeting prices of hardware, communications equipment, and telecom equipment over the past five years have reduced our capital spending requirements dramatically.? Even the high cost of install
