March 2010

Attorney River
Come to the Colorado New Venture Challenge Finals
Support Boulder’s bid for Google’s 1GB/Second Fiber Project
NVCA Argues Against Parts of the “Restoring American Financial Sustainability Act”
St. Bernadus Abt 12


February 2010

Layoff Trackers
Application for a Night out with the Boys
Law Degree for Sale
Why Copyright Law is Stupid – A New Series
Denver-based Online Education Startup Looking for VP of Engineering
Why Wouldn’t You Want to Work for Next Big Sound?
EBay meets the Business of Law
Have You Used Our Term Sheet Series?
Saison Dupont Belgian Farmhouse Ale
Microsoft Does The Right Thing.
Watch Out Boston, a Rip Off is Coming to Town (Young Startup Ventures)
Why Do I Need Facebook When I Have Twitter?
Organic Motion is Looking for Engineers
GREAT New Blog – IP Law for Startups


January 2010

Looking for a Part-Time Operations Person
Has Governor Ritter Lost His Mind?
Diary of a 3L Trying to Find a Job
Maredsous Trippel Beer Review
Need A Terms of Service or Privacy Policy – Quick and Easy?
Saison Dupont Brasserie Beer Review
Them Crooked Vultures
Hot Topics In Private Company Law
Beer Review – Midas Touch Golden Elixir
Ghostery – Great Application to Show You Who is Watching You on the Web
How To Build A Company – Live Presentation
Big Name Bolts BigLaw to Found Boutique
Thank You – Mendelson’s Musings Wins ABA Award
How Does One Get a Bathroom Break During Avatar?
PAY YOUR !*?@!%! LAWYERS!!!


December 2009

Happy Holidays and to a Wonderful New Year
Three things NOT to do when you are pitching me
Oh Yeah! for O Ya – Boston Restaurant Review
Shareholder Representative Services Holiday Greeting
Beer, Beer and More Beer
Over 60,000 Wanna-be Lawyers are Delusional


November 2009

ABA Journal Picks its 100 Favorite Blogs – and I’m on it
I Love My Lijit Search Capability
Senator Dodd – Making it harder for small businesses to get funded
Why Don’t Venture Capitalists Tell You Why They Won’t Invest?
Twitter: “We Own You Bitch”
My Day at the Supreme Court
Are You a Great Lawyer and Do You Need a Job?
Gratuitous Chocolate (a.k.a “Seth Ellis Chocolatier Rocks”)
Whatever
Community Office Hours Coming Up


October 2009

Oblong on Bloomberg Innovators
Oppose Bailouts for Venture Capital Investors
Colorado University New Venture Challenge Gaining Momentum
Can Cold Calling a Venture Capitalist Lead to Investment?
Should We Be Creating New Musical Instruments?
TechStars TV Bloopers
Next Big Sound is Hiring
Just When You Thought It Was Safe for Venture Capital Regulation…
How To Wind Down Your Company – New Series


September 2009

Startup Visa Momentum
Our Investment in Next Big Sound
Nominate Your Favorite Woman Entrepreneur
An Open Letter to Mr. Obama on Innovation Policy
Great Article on Intellectual Ventures (sucking)


August 2009

The End of Software Patents?
Community Hours
When A Down Round Isn’t So Bad (Unless you are a VC)
How to Run a Great Board Meeting


July 2009

Adam Smith – The Wealth of Lawyers
FirstDocs is Now Brightleaf
Some Lawyers (and Their Clients) Continue to Suck – Now Suing Twitter Users
New Techtars TV – And a Great "Set up"
Should Venture Capitalist Sell Out To Secondary Firms?
I Guess That I’m a Slave to My Cat
I Like Offensive Puppets
The Machine That Goes Bing
Dating Deal Flow
Where Do Venture Capitalists Find Their Companies?
Making Sense of Cents


June 2009

Techstars TV episode 5
Apparently 52.9% of Venture Capitalists are Deluded
Best Mexican Food in Colorado???
Quick Review of iPhone 3.0 and the 3Gs
FlyClear Ceases Operations
Shareholder Representatives Blog!
The Alternate Routes – In Concert and Thinking About Music 2.0
Dark Was The Night – Great CD for a Great Cause
Memeo share gets 5 stars rating!
Rocky Radar Colorado Company List
Refine Your Own Personal Elevator Pitch
So Funky – Sesame Street
When a Layoff is not a Layoff?
Techstars – Week 1
Vendor Client Relationships


May 2009

Preparing For A First Meeting With Me
Fundraising Effort for Growe Foundation
Denver Art Museum – Psychedelic Experience
Big News From App-X
David Cohen Announces New Seed Fund
Your Own Cloud Storage Drive
Our Latest Investment – Medialets
Facebook’s Double Standard
Quick Ways To Get Fired as a Lawyer
If You Are into Human Beat Boxes…
Gettin’ Gisty Wit It
Are the Cultures of Law Firms Dying?


April 2009

Big News From the NVCA Annual Meeting
Legal On Ramp – A Joint for Lawyers
Drummer Jokes 101
Getting Love From the Travel Gods
Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs for 2009


October 2009

Law Firm 2.0 – The End (for now) and Recap and Downloading the Entire Series.


April 2009

Wilson Sonsini Term Sheet Generator
Humbled on the Last Day of Teaching
The End of Teaching – for now…
Puttin’ on the Leash 2009
Why Be Personally Responsible When You Can Sue?
Sam Zell At CU
Brad Feld Lifetime Achievement Award?
Law Firm 2.0 – What might the future of law firms look like?
How To Get A Job In Venture Capital
Intermountain West Music Scene
Making Social Computing Work for You – Ann Arbor, MI
Brad Feld As Your Personal Chef
Shareholder Representative Services NVCA Dinner
Entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Silicon Flatirons / U of Colorado’s Entrepreneurship Week
Even FASB thinks FAS 157 is Stupid


March 2009

Law Firm 2.5 – Richard Susskind – The End of Lawyers
So Cal Food Adventures
Time to Reboot Venture Capital Deal Structures
Ask the VC Live – University of Michigan
Lawyer Layoffs – What It Means To You
Law Firm 2.0 – Re-architecting the Law Firm – Outsourcing


April 2009

Crash Course Video


March 2009

University of Colorado Wins VCIC Regional at U.S.C.
Two Good Ways To Lose Money
What Boulder Means to Me
Need a Summer Internship in Boulder?


February 2009

Crash Course on Venture Capital
The TechStars are Coming! The TechStars are Coming!
Beers with Brad in Seattle
Footers on Your Presentations Aren’t Irrelevant
Model Seed Documents – Direct From Techstars
Everything That You Want To Know About Venture Capitalists
Pizzeria Mozza – Perhaps the Best Pizza in the U.S.
Paul’s Boutique, The Beastie Boys and Topspin
Can’t Anyone Pay Their Damn Taxes?
Which Sports Car Are You?
Bye Bye Billable Hours
Techstars – Open for Applications


January 2009

Why FAS 157 Is Stupid
Back To School
Boulder Startup Executive Email List
More Music Recommendations
What I Learned at CES
Stupid Bailout of the Week
The Porn Industry Wants a Bailout?
Our Investment in Law Firm 2.0
Topspin Live at CES
Now I’m Certain That AT&T Sucks
Off Email For the First Time Since 1994


December 2008

Happy Holidays
What’s The Value Of My Startup?
Law Firm Fees Defy Economic and Reality Gravity
Holiday Cards
Coldplay Sued by Joe Satriani and Why I Love Music Copyright Lawsuits.


November 2008

Cool Patent Startup Pays People To Discover Prior Art
The Greatest Moustaches in Rock and Roll
The Future of the Music Industry
The "Other Pine Street" in Boulder County
Oblong – It’s Alive, Doctor, It’s Alive
Healthy Ways to Tighten the Corporate Belt
What Does Foundry Group Invest In?
A Patent Even I Can Support
Good Presentation on Fiduciary Duties
Do You Know a Company That Should Present At VCIR?


October 2008

The Sky Is Falling. It’s All Over. Oh Yeah, and Lawyers Want to Profit From It.
East Coast Restaurant Reviews – Troquet and Sushi Yasuda
Lawyers Having Fun While the World Craters
Sign Of Southwest Airlines Losing Its Mojo?
The Dyson Airblade Rocks
Drumming and Rock Band
Law Firm 2.0 – Re-architecting the Law Firm –Compensation
How Does The Market Craziness Affect Venture Capitalists and Startups?
Going Back To School
I Wish That I Had Invested In This Company
The DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008
Politics and Music


September 2008

Fill Out Your Brackets For September Madness!
We Want You – To Work In Boulder
Armageddon?
How Do I Deal With The Press?
Vote No On Amendment 55
Glenn, You Might Want To Talk To Your Pilots
Easy As Pie?
A Little Trippin’ On A Road Trip
Interesting Patent Statistics
Anyone Out There A Cat Psychologist?
Recap of Mendelson’s Musings
Update on "Stupid Patent Case of the Week"
Y Combinator Model Seed Financing Documents
Restaurant Review: Colterra


August 2008

More Patent Stupidness
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Socialthing! Acquired by AOL
Stupid Patent Case of the Week
Sweet Bathroom Music
Best Rock and Roll Shuffle of All Time
Ignighter – From NYC to TechStars
Manualists Are Musicians Too
Law Firm 2.0 – Clients need to chill out (a.k.a Lawyer Bill of Rights)
August 14th – Have a Beer And Do Something For the Boulder Community


July 2008

The Top 20 Albums Of All Time
Should I Pay My Venture Capitalist To Consult For My Company?
I Know What You Are Thinking… (Well Not Really)
The Most Useless Button Ever
Should We Scrap The "Cravath" Style Of Law Firm Hiring?
Green Clovers and Blue Diamonds (and Frasca too)
The Police (Red) Rocks!
Are Covers Evil?
University of Colorado and Entrepreneurship
Bernanke versus Bush – Winner Bernanke
I Like Buying Books Online. I Won’t Buy Televisions
iPhone Accessory Pricing Apple VS. AT&T
Law Firm 2.0 – Re-architecting the Law Firm – Cost Structures
Why Does Hell Need A Guard Dog?
Everyone Needs An iPhone
Snow Storms in July
Investment in Topspin
Restaurant Review: Cut – Beverly Hills
Gnip is Alive


June 2008

New Band To Check Out – Pela
Law Firm 2.0 – Re-architecting the Law Firm – Associate Retention and Hiring
There is no "I" in Foundry
We Love Our Executive Coach
Roland, You Let Me Down
Only In Boulder – Free Medical Care While You Eat!
Facebook in Reality
Law Firm 2.0 – Let’s change billing practices before it is too late
Pandora Rocks
Sweet Home Leningrada – Where The Skies Are So Blue
Law Firm 2.0 – Why can’t financings be easier and cheaper?
Announcing CU Engineering’s NEW Entrepreneurship Certificate!
I Love a Good Cartoon
Law Firm 2.0 – Let’s Make This Easier
Congratulations to Qwest Communications on Being Named Legal Department of the Year!
Music Truth Is Stranger Than Music Fiction
Why Start-up Lawyers Frustrate Me


May 2008

I Love and Hate Robots
Music Page
Hello World!