December 29, 2004
Live Tsunami Story from Boulder Entrepreneur Scott Raderstorf
As everyone, we’re completely stunned and overwhelmed by the accounts of the tsunami tragedy. Tim Miller pointed me to fellow Boulderite Scott Raderstorf’s blog on his experience at the ...
December 28, 2004
Running Helps Entrepreneurs Succeed
Ah – two of my favorite topics – running and entrepreneurship. Lucy Sanders – the executive director of The National Center for Women and Information Technology – sent me ...
December 25, 2004
Family Business
Amy gave me an awesome coffee table book yesterday called Family Business. I devoured it last night after dinner. She told me it was a Christmas present – ...
December 24, 2004
End of Year Spouse Questions
Amy and I go out together for “life dinner” on the first day of every month. We spend dinner reflecting on the previous month, thinking about the month to ...
Inspiring a Team
Charlie Feld’s latest leadership article for CIO Magazine is about How to Inspire Your Team. It’s a quick read that explains the value of trust (table stakes – you’ve ...
December 22, 2004
What To Do In Hotchkiss Colorado
I’m been in Hotchkiss, Colorado with Amy the past few days enjoying the run up to Christmas. Amy has family here (on the western slope of Colorado near Grand ...
December 16, 2004
Stuff the Ballot Box
I find online blog-related survey’s peculiar since they have so much selection bias built in (e.g. the bloggers are going to be the ones responding, who pass around the surveys, ...
Outlawed Words: SOME and OK
In my first company (Feld Technologies), we wrote customer software for medium sized businesses. This was back in the late 80’s / early 90’s – pre client/server (remember dbase, ...
Board of Directors
Jim Lejeal just wrote a good post on his thoughts on what qualities make a good independent director. It’s worth a read. I’ve served on several boards with ...
December 15, 2004
Early Stage Marketing and Sales – The “Why” vs. the “What”
I was at a Rally Software board meeting where we spent a chunk of time finalizing and approving the 2005 operating plan. A big part of the discussion – ...
Feedburner Publicize
Feedburner continues to impress – they just announced some new features, including FeedCount. Dick, Eric, and crew have taken “Keep It Simple and Sloppy” to heart – they release ...
December 13, 2004
How Many Angels is the Right Number
I got the following question via email today:
All things being equal and all things being perfect, is it better to have more or less ‘angels’ in the mix? I ...
December 10, 2004
Ryan McIntyre – Another VC Blogger
Ryan McIntyre – who works with me at Mobius – has started blogging. Ryan’s a great friend and collegue and – even though he went to Stanford – I ...
Healthy Cost Reduction
I was with my uncle Charlie at EDS yesterday catching up on a variety of things. I always pick up a handful of pithy thoughts from him – it’s ...
December 8, 2004
Sales Tools – Heat Map Example
After posting Sales Tools – Keep Them Simple (e.g. A Heat Map) I got a couple of comments saying “show an example.” (Now that’s a great example of NOT ...