October 30, 2004
The Breeders Cup
My wife Amy loves to watch horse racing on TV (not bet, just watch the horses.) I’m lying on the couch resting from a very intense week (and catching ...
October 28, 2004
RSS on Mobius Venture Capital Site
We just put an RSS feed up on our Mobius Venture Capital site for press releases. So – if you subscribe – you can get the press releases about ...
October 24, 2004
Precepts
My first company – Feld Technologies – was a transformational experience for me. I started the company in 1985 out of my fraternity at MIT. My first major client was ...
I just voted and it felt good
I’m going to be out of town on election day so I just filled out my absentee ballot (thankfully I got my ballot, unlike my 13,000 friends in Colorado that ...
NewsGator Rating on my Blog
I’ve added a new NewsGator feature to my blog – Ratings. If you are looking at my blog online or via NewsGator Online, you’ll see a new thing in the ...
October 23, 2004
Book – Change Your Underwear Twice A Week
I discovered Danny Gregory this summer in Alaska when I read Everyday Matters.
I bought all of his books and tossed them in the to read pile. Today I read ...
October 21, 2004
Florence of Arabia – Rolling on the floor funny
I finished Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley an hour ago. I am still laughing about it. It’s by far the funniest thing I’ve experienced in October – ...
Neal Stephenson on Slashdot
If you are a Neal Stephenson fan, there’s a great interview with him up on Slashdot.
Snow Crash remains one of my all time favorite books and losing myself in The ...
October 20, 2004
How To Copyright Your PowerPoint Slides
I sat through about 20 PowerPoint presentations yesterday (feel free to snicker now.)
As I was sitting in the audience, I noticed one thing that kept annoying me. A number ...
October 19, 2004
EDS Agility Alliance
EDS put a big stake in the ground by declaring friends and foes yesterday when they created the EDS Agilty Alliance.
Foes: IBM and HP.
Friends: Cisco, Dell, EMC, Microsoft, Sun, Xerox ...
October 18, 2004
NewsGator Online – Free Consumer Edition Released Today
NewsGator released a new version of NewsGator Online – their web-based RSS aggregator.
This version is free to consumers and includes new features including folders (manage all your feeds the same ...
October 12, 2004
Audits – do them early
I screwed up.
I was involved in a merger of two companies in Q4 last year. Post merger, I let both companies slip on completing their audits. I figured ...
Four Mobius Related Companies on the D&T Fast 50
According to my mom, this is a “brag”, not a “blog”.
Deloitte & Touche has an annual “Colorado Technology Fast 50” ranking. They rank the top 50 technology companies in ...
A weekend of books, leaves, and no Internet
Amy and I spent the weekend in New Hampshire. We stayed at a Stepping Stones – a bed and breakfast we used to stay at regularly when we lived ...
October 7, 2004
Five Frogs on a Log
I gave a lecture on “Profitable Exiting” at the 30th Annual Venture Capital Institute in Atlanta on Tuesday. This is the major professional education event for the venture capital ...