Today, I learned that former classmate of mine at the University of Michigan has started a blog for startups dealing with intellectual property issues. Jill Bowman is a great person and her blog is not only informative, but is also written in her voice, not legalese. (Her husband says it’s too “girly” but I totally […]
Q: We just started looking for venture funding and I have a question. Why do VC’s ask us how our idea came about? Are they looking for an emotional and inspiring story or are they worried that we may have taken our idea from someone else or, what I believe is the case, do they […]
Q: I’ve got a software startup that has a novel approach to solving a market problem. However, the solution stems from the nature of the process, not from the code per se. In terms of trying to finance the venture, would this necessitate getting enough funding to be first to market and just try to […]
One of the issues that we debate internally is regarding the value of patents. We’ve written a lot about the subject over the years and those of you who are regular readers know that Brad hates all software patents, and I’m fairly close to that line as well. Last night, our friend Rob Shurtleff sent […]
Jason Haislmaier of HRO and I have gotten to know each other over the past few months due to the Boulder OpenCoffee Club. He’s a smart guy and spends a ton of time with open source issues. He’s started a blog called Thinking Open. I’d encourage every developer who is using open source in their […]
We get a lot of questions about open source software. Today at our Boulder OpenCoffee Club meeting, we had a presentation by Doug Young regarding his thoughts on open source issues that developers face. It was a great discussion. (Unfortunately) every developer needs to keep their open source “house” in order and to that affect, […]
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