June 30, 2004
Book Review Flyby – Running, Flying, Blogging, Floss, and Religion
I’m up in Alaska and have been sucking down books. Following are five flyby reviews for those of you with different tastes.
Chirunning – Good book on combining T’ai Chi ...
Quote of the Day – Murderers and Trumpets
My wife Amy sent me the following Voltaire quote (via A Word A Day).
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and ...
Rally Software Development Ships v1 – On-demand solution for Agile software development
Rally Software – which we funded with Boulder Ventures in October 2003 – just shipped their first product. Nine months from startup funding to v1 – not bad!
Rally provides ...
June 28, 2004
Why Did We Invest in NewsGator?
NewsGator announced our investment last week. I received a number of nice notes from folks in the RSS world. I also received a bunch of questions about why ...
June 22, 2004
The Torturous World of Powerpoint
I’ve looked at thousands (tens of thousands?) presentations pitching new businesses since the mid 1990’s. The vast majority of them suck. Unfortunately, it’s not Powerpoint’s fault (no – ...
You Drop It Off. We Sell It On eBay
Every now and then, a VC runs across an entrepreneur that has enormous vision, the mental agility to tune his idea to the market reality, and the chutzpah to pull ...
June 21, 2004
Book Review: The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Amy finished The Kite Runner the other day and immediately called me on my cell phone and said “I just read the best first novel that I’ve read so far ...
Geolocation and law enforcement – Quova
When Raj Bhargava came up with the idea for Quova in 1999, one of his initial examples was that law enforcement would eventually focus on the Internet as a way ...
Politics and Blogging
I predict that the upcoming national election activity will put blogging on the map as a broad populist activity.
The Associated Press just ran an article titled Democrat Convention Credentials Bloggers. ...
June 19, 2004
A Writer Starts From Scratch – Learning to Blog for the Non-Techie
My wife Amy – who is a writer – decided she wanted to try blogging (both reading and writing). She’s intrigued by my fascination with blogging and thought it ...
Fathers Last Day
Halley Suitt had an intense post this morning on her father’s last day. I expect it’s powerful reading for anyone – whether your father is alive or not.
June 18, 2004
Social Networking Blah Blah
We’ve been struggling with the explosion of social networking software and our perception of its usefulness for a while. David Hornik from August Capital has a priceless post on ...
June 17, 2004
An example of a cross-border US / India company – Stratify
There’s been an overwhelming amount of “news” in the past year about the growth of India’s technology sector. Much of the focus has been on the significant trend of ...
June 16, 2004
Feedburner Blog Statistics Upgrade
Feedburner implemented an upgrade to their statistics page today. It’s solid progress.
I’ve written about the issue of blog stats in the past. This is an area that both ...
Learning to Swim (again)
I’m gearing up for my next marathon on my goal of running 50 (one in each state) by the time I’m 50 (I’ve done 4). I’ve decided on the ...