July 31, 2004
Where did all the fax machines go?
I was involved in a deal this week that finally closed at 4:40am PST on a Thursday morning. The lawyers were chasing down signatures until 3am PST.
Amazingly, several of ...
July 30, 2004
e raised to the power of pi i equals -1
If you recognize that, you probably have at least a basic interest in mathematics. If so, Count Down : Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World’s Toughest Math ...
July 26, 2004
Financial Fitness for Entrepreneurs
I thought I’d give you a break from the DNC coverage in the blogosphere (and everywhere else).
I wrote the following article on “financial fitness for entrepreneurs” last year for the ...
Agile Software Development with SCRUM
Erg. Chewy. But – useful, interesting, and educational (kind of like eating shredded wheat for breakfast – it’s tough going down but you know it’s good for you.)
Ryan ...
July 25, 2004
Degree Confluence Project – Amazingly Cool
We have friends down from Anchorage this weekend that turned us on to the Degree Confluence Project. The goal of the project is to visit each of the ...
July 24, 2004
That Won’t Happen Unless I Win the Lottery
You know the phrase – it’s said with some disdain, frustration, disappointment, or dejection.
Well – it happens. My partner Heidi Roizen’s assistant (Mary Bush’s) father-in-law Chuck Bush just won ...
Homer, Alaska in the NY Times
I mentioned recently that we have a place in Homer, Alaska. A common refrain that we hear from our friends is “where is Homer?”
Well, believe it or not, the ...
IAC/InterActiveCorp Acquires ServiceMagic
Yesterday, IAC/InterActiveCorp announced that it acquired ServiceMagic.
ServiceMagic connects homeowners with prescreened and customer-rated residential contractors, real estate professionals and lenders. They are the market leader in this category of ...
July 22, 2004
Email Ain’t Dead
I’m an email junkie. As a user, I not-so-fondly remember Compuserve, Novell MHS, and Pine. As an investor, I’ve been involved in Email Publishing (first email service ...
Great White North Motorcycle Trip
I live in Boulder, Colorado. However, my wife Amy and I spend as much time as we can in Alaska. She was born in Anchorage, lived in Anchor ...
July 21, 2004
Form Matters
I went to the gym today (we have one in Homer – it’s small, but it works) to do my semiweekly (or is it biweekly – twice a week) weight ...
Microsoft Names ePartners Global Partner of the Year
I wrote about the merger of EYT and ePartners a few weeks ago.
Today, ePartners announced that Microsoft had named it Global Partner of the Year at Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner ...
Young Jackasses of the Post-New Economy
That got your attention, huh? There it is – on page 233 – as our intrepid authors speculate on the title of their upcoming Inc. Magazine interview (which was ...
July 17, 2004
Robots in Connecticut
Amy agreed to move to Stepford with me tonight.
We saw the priceless remake of the classic The Stepford Wives in our little town’s theater (the other movie was Spiderman 2).
“This ...
Boards That Are Not Bored
I wrote the following article for The Kauffman Foundation’s Entreworld web site some time in the late 1990’s. Someone reminded me of it the other day and I looked ...