Brad Burnham
Brad Burnham began his career in information technology with AT&T in 1979. He held a variety of sales, marketing and business development positions there until 1990 when he spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories. As the first AT&T "venture," Echo Logic was a catalyst for the creation of AT&T’s venture capital arm, AT&T Ventures. When Echo Logic was sold in 1993, Brad joined AT&T Ventures as an Executive in Residence. He became a principal at there in 1994 and a General Partner in 1996. At AT&T Ventures, Brad was responsible for 14 investments including, Argon Networks, Audible, Avesta Technologies, Classic Sports Network, Multex Systems, Physicians Online, and Paytrust.
Brad currently serves on the boards of Indeed, Pinch Media, Tumblr, Wesabe, Adaptive Blue, SimulMedia, UpCompany, Meetup, and Bug Labs. Brad has a BA in Political Science from Wesleyan University, is married with two kids and lives in New York City.
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Posts by Brad:
- Hacking Education
- Open Spectrum is Good Policy
- Welcome Back Dave
- Pinch Media's iPhone App Store Secrets
- Arguing From First Principles
- Why The Flow Of Innovation Has Reversed
- Meetup - The Original Web Meets World Company
- Internet for Everyone
- The Weird Economics of Information
- Pinch Media - Investing on a New Platform
- Losing Jason
- Wesabe Steps Out
- AB Meta
- This is Nuts
- New Fund - Same Focus
- Google's Data Asset
- Markets and Philanthropy
- Hacking Philanthropy - The Transcript
- There Are No Open Web Services
- What I want from Bug Labs
- AOL/Time Warner buys TACODA
- Wesabe Is More Than A "Personal" Financial Service
- Who do you trust to edit your news?
- Cash Flow Forecasting Isn't What It Used To Be
- AdaptiveBlue
- What's next?
- Customer Service is the New Marketing
- History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme
- Welcome Andrew Parker
- Scalability
- Defensibility
- Information Technology Leverage
- Potential to change the structure of markets
- Our Focus
- Through the Looking Glass into the Net Neutrality Debate
- Sessions
- Union Square Sessions 2 - Public Policy and Innovation
- Why We Admire Craigslist
- Introducing Bug Labs
- A Stray Thought on the Micro-chunking of Media
- Why has the flow of technology reversed?
- Yes but....
- Will Computing Ever Be As Invisible As Electricity
- Research and Development
- Mathematics - How much is enough
- Physics - The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Web Services in the Mist
- A Delicious Eight Months
- Sessions Top Ten Insights - Seven - Less Control Can Create More Value
- Sessions Top Ten Insights - Six Reputations Are Not Portable
- Sessions Top Ten Insights - Four
- Sessions Top Ten Insights - Two
- Sessions Top Ten Insights - One
- We don't "get it"
- Web Services are different
- Hello World