August 31, 2004
LiveMessage – 10,000 Beta Bloggers in the First Week
MessageCast announced that its LiveMessage Blogger alert service has gotten 10,000 subscribers in its first week. Some cool blogs such as Bink.nu are using it.
To see how it works, you ...
Is Free Web Conferencing Really Free?
Paul Berberian, chairman and founder of Raindance, wrote a provocative post today called Free Conferencing is Theft. Paul knows this business extremely well – I was an early investor in Raindance ...
August 30, 2004
Summer is over
We’re back home in Colorado. It’s radically different to wake up in Eldorado Canyon instead of Homer, but equally beautiful, in a different way.
August 26, 2004
Corporate Introduction to RSS
Last month Mediathink published a White Paper title RSS: The Next Big Thing On Line. It’s the best starter piece that I’ve seen so far for people – especially ...
Payroll – Bi-weekly vs. Semi-monthly
I was on a board call for a company today that pays their employees bi-weekly (every two weeks). At some point in time there was a rationale for this since ...
August 25, 2004
Fantasy vs. Reality
Fred wrote two stories on the cliche “if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.” I saw it right after I responded to a few comments ...
Berberian’s Alaska Trip
My friend Paul Berberian and his friend Paul Wareham did a round trip from Colorado to Alaska earlier this month. They stopped off and visited us for a ...
August 24, 2004
To Participate or Not (Participating Preferences)
When I wrote my first post on the structure and financial components of a typical venture capital investment – where I described Liquidation Preferences – I alluded to the concept ...
August 22, 2004
Everyday Matters
Everyday Matters is a remarkable book. If you live in New York; have a family member who has had a tragic accident or a crippling disease; or are subject ...
August 20, 2004
Your marketing sucks.
I bought the book ‘Your marketing sucks” because of the title. While I didn’t expect much from it, it was worth reading. It’s a quick and easy read ...
August 18, 2004
NewsGator Now Provides RSS Feeds for University Wire Content
We invested in NewsGator in June and Greg Reinacker and crew have been hard at work building out the next generation of NewsGator for Outlook and NewsGator Online Services (NGOS).
NewsGator ...
August 16, 2004
Newmerix Raises $7 Million in Series B Financing
Newmerix announced today that it had raised $7m in a new financing. Siemens Venture Capital was the new lead investor, joining us and IDG Ventures.
We provided Newmerix’s seed financing ...
ChangeThis: How To Be a Boor manifesto
Seth Godin’s ChangeThis project has officially launched. ChangeThis – in their words “is trying to create a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools ...
August 14, 2004
Fetchlinks for NewsGator is Updated (0.2.0.33)
As a hardcore NewsGator user (and investor), I’ve been a heavy user of several of the NewsGator plug-ins.
As the number of feeds I monitor has increased, I have found that ...
Bootstrapping Top 10 List
Last week, I was asked to write up my “Top 10 bootstrapping actions” for a book on bootstrapping that should be coming out later this year. Bootstrapping must be in ...