July 28, 2005
Term Sheet: Initial Public Offering Shares Purchase
Jason and I are planning to finish strong with some serious stuff in our term sheet series, but we figured we’d put one more term in that has us sniggling ...
NewsGator Enterprise Server Performance Happiness
Greg Reinacker has a tease up about NewsGator Enterprise Server, which is currently in beta and marching quickly toward release. Pretty (and satisfying) graph)
We’ve gotten a lot of help from ...
Putting it All Together: Business Structures and Financing New Media Ventures
Anyone that knows me knows I love to talk (I also love to sit quietly and ponder things – ah – the duality of being me.) Another duality – I ...
State Government Stupidity Concerning Email
A few days ago, I wrote some thoughts on the war on spam. Today Matt Blumberg has an insightful post up on what’s going on in several state legislatures concerning ...
July 27, 2005
Spin Sucks
I hate the notion of “spin” when applied to articulating what’s going on. I especially hate spin when it gets in the way (in the middle of, in front of) ...
Acceptable Downtimie
I was on a board call for a company today where we talked about “acceptable downtime” for their web-based service. This company has commercial customers that depend on its software ...
Pulp Fiction Played By Bunnies
Hysterical – John Travolta looks damn good as a bunny. Uma Thurman – not so good. Hat tip to David Beisel.
July 26, 2005
Book Review: Killing Rain
Killing Rain by Barry Eisler was dynamite. I continue to make one step forward and two steps backward through my shelves of unread books (Amazon delivers more than I consume.) After ...
The War on Spam Continues
Spam is one of the flagship members of the Internet Axis of Evil – it sucks worse than War of the Worlds. I’ve been supporting the war against spam through my ...
July 25, 2005
FeedBurner Solved Amy’s Atom 1.0 Problem
So, earlier tonight, I turned to Amy with a twinkle in my eye and watched as she stared intently at something that looked suspiciously like Typepad on her monitor. The ...
BMC Software Gets Agile With Rally Software
BMC Software – a company that has been around for 25 years and has a major software footprint – announced today that they are using Rally Software’s lifecycle management software ...
Venture Deals Thrive in Colorado – Really?
About 20 days after the end of each quarter, Ernst & Young/VentureOne releases a survey on venture capital funding. At about the same time, PWC releases their similar survey (MoneyTree). ...
July 24, 2005
Term Sheet: Founders Activities
I’m going to keep tonight’s term sheet post short and sweet, especially since I’m still reeling from the horrifyingly bad War of the World movie I just saw. Jason and I are ...
War of the Worlds Just Sucked
I just wasted two hours of my life. At least I got to sit next to Amy and eat popcorn.
As I’ve said in the past, we get two movies ...
Einstein Was Really Smart
For some reason, I get a copy of TechComm: The National Journal of Technology Commercialization. I was thumbing through it where I read all my physical magazines these days (the ...