Brad‘s brother John Feld and Gabriella Draney asked if we would be willing (along with Ryan Roberts) to sponsor ‘Beers with Brad’ this Friday – we happily agreed. We will meet Friday night between 6PM and 8PM at Lotus on 2900 McKinney Ave. You are all invited and as is our custom, the bar will [...]
The best you. . .
May 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you have kids and are like me you take lots of photos of them (my flickr account has more than 14,000 photos – most of them of Ethan and Erin). The dirty little secret is that the photos you see are the best ones. Today we snap LOTS of photos since there is not [...]
Did I mention that Jason Chen was an idiot?
May 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Oh and so is Nick Denton. I have been meaning to write this post for a while. If you are like me you have been following the ‘lost iPhone prototype saga‘ in the news. From the very first reports I had a feeling that Jason and the staff at Gawker Media had screwed up by [...]
Passionate Investing?
May 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
Lately I have spent a lot of time talking to venture capital firms about making an investment in ShopSavvy. Several weeks ago I sat down at lunch with one firm and they asked me what it would take to get a deal done. I think they might have been asking me what sort of pre-money [...]
Lots-o-startups getting incubated in Texas!
May 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Bradley Joyce broke the news that Gabriella Draney’s ‘Tech Wildcatters’ (Dallas area incubator for startups) finally got off the ground announcing their inaugural class of startups including: Mobestream Media CollegeJobConnect The Brand Protection Agency Concepta Systems Image Vision Labs One day later Lauren Warthan from Porter Novelli let me know that the Capital Factory (Austin [...]
