June 30, 2005
Book Review: The Economics of Innocent Fraud
My summer “book a day diet” began with a chewy one. Fortunately it was short (a “bookette” – only 62 pages). John Kenneth Galbraith is 95 years old. So – ...
Slingbox – TV Wherever You Want It
We have a bunch of cool companies. One of my new favorites is Sling Media who makes the ultraspiffy Slingbox. My collegue Ryan McIntyre sits on their board and has a ...
June 29, 2005
Home Sweet Homer
Amy and I arrived in Homer today. Yippee. Everything in the house works except the hot water. Oops. Guess we’ll have to figure that out tomorrow. Following is the view ...
When Are 350 Million Shares No Different Than 35 Million?
I was recently asked the following question by email by a reader of my blog. Rather than respond with a one-off email, I figured I’d post my answer here since ...
June 28, 2005
Grasslands by Michael Beggs (Grade 10)
I’m on the board of the Colorado Conservation Trust. I think it’s currently the most impactful environmental conservation based organization in Colorado – I am so enthusiastic about it that ...
June 27, 2005
The Online Machine Shop
I’m at MIT all day at a symposium run by Eric von Hippel on Democratizing Innovation. It’s a classic “drink from a fire hose” type of day – short (15 ...
Return Path Is Looking For A Great VP of Marketing
Matt Blumberg – CEO of Return Path – posted a job description for a new VP of Marketing on his blog. Jennifer Wilson – Return Path’s long standing VP Marketing is ...
Postini Attacks Spim
I hate Spam. Fortunately, one of our companies – Postini – does a remarkable job of eliminating it (turn on Postini, magic happens, Spam disappears.) Recently, I’ve been under attack ...
Berkeley Logo
As I wander around in summer school, I’ve been working my way through Brian Harvey’s Computer Science Logo Style 2/e, Vol. 1: Symbolic Computing. So far I’m finding Harvey to ...
June 26, 2005
Book Review: My Friend Leonard
When I read James Frey’s first book A Million Little Pieces, I thought it was the most intense book I had read in a long time. Frey’s second book – ...
June 25, 2005
Imagine Cup Programming Competition
I’ve just agreed to be a judge for the finals of the Microsoft produced Imagine Cup Programming Competition. This is a college programming competition that now has over 15,000 students ...
June 24, 2005
Women at Gnomedex
I’m at Gnomedex. Rick Klau said it earlier today when he said that the Gnomedex theme song is “It’s Raining Men.” I’m in a room with 500 people and there are ...
June 23, 2005
Podcasting, Business Intelligence, and Gnomedex
Gnomedex starts tomorrow (ok – I guess it officially started tonight, but I chose to spending the evening gorging on sushi with Amy and then watching the Spurs crunch the ...
M&A Thoughts from a Corporate Point of View – Daniel Benel
Seth Levine has a guest blogger on his site today contributing to his M&A series – his friend Daniel Benel, a corp dev exec at Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT). Daniel’s ...
June 21, 2005
May The Farm Be With You
Star Wars 3 was technically beautiful, but thematically disappointing to me. However, Seth emailed me a link to Store Wars (via his dad Randy). You’ll have to decide whether or ...