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bfeld

Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture... more »
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  • member since December 6 2006

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  • Rules of Deception
    • Rated 5 stars

    fter that list of books, I definitely needed some mental floss. I was turned on to Christopher Reich in 2005 after writing a book review titled The Chairman (about one of Stephen Frey’s books). Reich is delicious - perfect mental floss.

    bfeld wrote this review Monday, December 22 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know
    • Rated 3 stars

    A fresh cut on the history of Google. Stross does a good job of organizing the story by chapter around specific Google products and their evolution. If you know a lot about Google, this book probably won’t be very interesting to you. If you think you know a lot about Google, but in you own personal quiet moment of honesty, you realize you probably don’t know as much as you do, this is a good book.

    bfeld wrote this review Monday, December 22 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Then We Came to the End
    • Rated 1 stars

    Damnit, this should have been good. It’s a cynical novel about the contemporary workplace. I kept trying to get into it but couldn’t really care about any of the characters. I’d try again. Still no interest. I bailed at about the halfway point.

    bfeld wrote this review Monday, December 22 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
    • Rated 5 stars

    I’m the football widow in my family, but this book was dynamite. It was a combination an extended description of the highlights of the 1958 Giants vs. Colts championship game, biographic sketches of all the major players and coaches involved, and an extensive explanation of the evolution of football into the NFL. At some point I looked up and realized I’d been sitting in the same beach chair for three hours without moving. I guess some of y’all have this experience every Sunday in your living room - it appears to take a book about football to work for me.

    bfeld wrote this review Monday, December 22 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped
    • Rated 1 stars

    Boring. I thought this was going to be interesting based on the teaser that it was a series of short vignettes on sex over history, pivoting around everyone’s favorite short French general. "Short" and "sex" are two words that should never go together in a teaser; this book lost my interest about half way through. A few of the stories were funny; most were just silly, stupid, vapid, or dull.

    bfeld wrote this review Monday, December 22 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Arsenals of Folly: Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War
    • Rated 5 stars

    This long history of the Cold War was really well done. For some reason I’ve become fascinated with the space race during the Cold War - maybe it’s a function of Sputnik’s 50th anniversary. Rhodes is a masterful story teller; this book was more like a novel than a history book. Coincidentally I saw an HBO Special on Sputnik and got to watch Ike and Khrushchev rail at each other, putting real faces to the whole thing.

    bfeld wrote this review Monday, December 22 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    • Rated 5 stars

    Beautiful written and a great place to start. Haruki Murakami is a tremendous writer who has been running for the past 30 years of his life. He mixes personal philosophy, memoir, and treatise on running in a nice, appropriately size package. If you are a runner or triathlete, this is a must read.

    bfeld wrote this review Monday, December 22 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Supreme Courtship
    • Rated 5 stars

    Christopher Buckley continues his incredible run of amazingly great fantastic books. Yes - I loved this one. Buckley has mastered contemporary satire.

    bfeld wrote this review Friday, November 28 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen
    • Rated 3 stars

    A major polemic on supply side economics and the entire Laffer tax and economic policy perspective.

    bfeld wrote this review Wednesday, November 26 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means
    • Rated 5 stars

    I figured Soros would be a challenge after Glasshouse. Every other chapter (the philosophy part) was. I always enjoy reading Soros's books; I never completely understand them but I enjoy his blunt and cynical view about the markets and how people interact with them.

    bfeld wrote this review Friday, July 25 2008. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )
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