November 28, 2004
Marketing Advice for $1000 Alex
Ok – Amy’s been making me watch too much Jeopardy these days (although I’ve had a blissful week off from it since I banned TV from this trip.) Fortunately, ...
November 27, 2004
Best Book of the Week: Hackers & Painters
My official best book of Thanksgiving week is Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham.
I know Paul Graham indirectly through his role as founder of Viaweb, which was bought in 1998 ...
November 24, 2004
Thanksgiving – Books, Beach, Running, and Amy
When some people think of Thanksgiving, they think of turkey and football. I think of sleeping late and reading a book a day.
Amy and I are in Cabo San ...
November 21, 2004
Adam Bosworth – KISS – Keep it Simple and Sloppy on the Internet
Adam Bosworth – one of the dudes behind a bunch of software products (including Borland Quattro, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer and BEA WebLogic application server), gave a brilliant ...
November 20, 2004
Leverage
My week felt like frame 3 of these pictures. Fortunately the weekend came just before frame 4.
November 14, 2004
Terry Gold – Another CEO / Entrepreneur Blog
A long time friend and entrepreneur – Terry Gold (Gold Systems CEO) – has started a blog.
I met Terry several months after I moved to Boulder in 1995. As ...
November 12, 2004
Consulting vs. Professional Services
I had a meeting yesterday with the VP of Consulting for one of my companies. The ostensible agenda for the meeting was to discuss how to accelerate their consulting ...
November 11, 2004
RSS:Blog = HTTP:Web = SMTP:Email
I’ve been having this weird conversation lately. Last week, it happened again when I was being interviewed for an article titled Betting on Tools that Power Blogs in Businessweek ...
November 7, 2004
The Incredibles was Incredible
After sitting through five horrible previews, we totally dug The Incredibles. I imagine you’ll be hearing that plenty – if you haven’t seen it, go. I had to ...
November 6, 2004
Major Technorati Upgrade
Technorati came out with a major upgrade today. Dave Sifry listed the improvements here, so I won’t repeat them, but it’s worth checking out as the search engine and ...
November 5, 2004
Why Scientists and Engineers End Up on the Wrong Side of the Value Equation
This morning I hosted a presentation by the MIT Deshpande Center about their program to a group of Colorado VCs. I’m really excited about what the Deshpande Center is ...
November 4, 2004
Convergys acquires Finali
One of my companies – Finali – announced today that they were acquired by Convergys. It continues to be a busy M&A time for us as public companies are ...
November 2, 2004
Enterprise RSS and Vote Links
Two of my favorite RSS-related companies (NewsGator and Technorati) announced new features today.
NewsGator launched an Enterprise RSS blog. They’ve been seeing a lot of enterprise adoption of their products, ...
November 1, 2004
Best and Final
Oracle announced their “best and final” offer for PeopleSoft today.
I’ve heard the phrase “best and final” a remarkable number of times recently in several deals I’ve been involved in. Each ...
First Snow of the Year in Boulder
It started snowing last night, so we get to say the first Boulder snow of the year happened in October. As I hauled my ass out of bed at 3am ...