January 30, 2005
MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge – Rated R for Revenue Conference
My friend Ron Schmelzer – the CEO of Zapthink and co-founder of Channelwave – pointed out an upcoming MIT Enterprise Forum (Cambridge, MA) conference called “Rated R for Revenue: Selling ...
January 29, 2005
Computer Forensics – Does Your Used Hard Drive Still Have Data On It?
Tom Bartel – a long time colleague going back to the early days of Email Publishing in the mid-1990s and a hardcore privacy advocate currently working at Return Path – mentioned ...
January 27, 2005
eWork and ProSavvy Merge
ProSavvy – a company I’ve been on the board of since 1996 – announced this week that they have merged with eWork. The combined company (called eWork) is the leader ...
January 25, 2005
Ideal Board Meetings
I had a great board meeting today at Quova and a near perfect board meeting at Rally last week. While it’s a pleasure to be involved in both companies since ...
January 21, 2005
Caddyshack
Fortunately for my wife Amy, she’s aware that I’m a 15 year old boy trapped in a 39 year old’s body. So – when Netflix delivers Caddyshack to us, she ...
MCI Acquires NetSec
We had a good day yesterday at Mobius VC as MCI announced they were acquiring NetSec for approximately $105m.
My partner Rex Golding has been involved since NetSec’s first venture round in ...
January 18, 2005
Term Sheet: Protective Provisions
As Jason and I continue to work our way through a typical venture capital term sheet, we encounter another key control term – the “protective provisions.” Protective provisions are effectively veto ...
January 17, 2005
RSS and Blogging on CNBC and in Fortune
RSS and Blogging are starting to permeate mainstream media. It’s both a blessing and a curse when something makes the front cover of the major business rags. In this case, ...
VC’s and Public Company Boards
Fred Wilson has a great post about his decision to no longer sit on public company boards – it’s worth reading if you are either on a public company board or ...
Ads in My Feeds
I’m playing around with ads in my feeds. I’ve enabled the Feedburner feature to insert Amazon ads in my book feeds and Overture “context based” ads in several (but not ...
January 16, 2005
Must Read Book: Joel on Software
I just finished Joel on Software. It is fabulous! Joel Spolsky – CEO of Fog Creek Software – has written a must read book for everyone in the software industry.
Joel has a ...
Employees Blogging
My NewsGator Keyword Search Feeds picked up a couple of new blogs from employees of two of my portfolio companies. I posted recently about a few new Mobius VC bloggers – it’s ...
January 14, 2005
PeopleSoft Employees Looking for Homes?
Jeff Nolan beat me to it with his “Attn PeopleSoft Employees” post, but he’s right on the mark. Given Oracle’s announcement that they are laying off 5,000 people today, a ...
Sign Me Up! – A New Book from Return Path on Email Marketing
My friends at Return Path just released a book called Sign Me Up! : A marketer’s guide to creating email newsletters that build relationships and boost sales. We’re really excited ...
January 12, 2005
3 Billion Instant Messages Served by Danger Hiptop’s Platform
I love my T-Mobile Sidekick (powered by Danger’s hiptop platform) – which you can currently get for free on Amazon.com with all the rebates. Of course – since Danger is one of ...