August 31, 2005
6000 Feet Is Not Sea Level
We’re back in Boulder after two months at sea level. My first run of the fall was a bitch – a minute a mile slower than at sea level. Altitude ...
Salesforce.com and RSS
Charlie Wood has a great example of enterprise RSS up and running in his Spanning Salesforce application. He’s gotten good buzz around it, even without putting out a press release. Consider it ...
August 30, 2005
Summer Books – 2005
My goal this summer when I was at my place in Alaska was to read a book a day. I didn’t make it, but still covered a lot of ground ...
August 28, 2005
MIT’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Yesterday, I wrote about my day exploring entrepreneurship in Fairbanks, Alaska. Today, while reading MIT’s Technology Review (the paper copy – in the bathroom – where all paper magazines should ...
Tori Amos Covering I Don’t Like Mondays
I just had a run where I used up 100% of what I had. I had a great run yesterday (1:15) in Anchorage on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. I ...
August 27, 2005
Entrepreneurship in Fairbanks
Earlier this summer I was invited up to Fairbanks, Alaska by the Fairbanks Economic Development Corporation to talk about entrepreneurship. I decided to swing up to Fairbanks at the end of ...
August 26, 2005
Deshpande Center Spawns Nine Companies – So Far
I’ve written enthusiastically about the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT in the past. I think it’s an awesome example of a university program that funds novel, early-stage research, ...
August 25, 2005
Room 214
I love numbers. Consider it one of my weird predilections. I’m in Room 214 in a hotel in Fairbanks, Alaska tonight. When I told Amy my room number, she said ...
VC’s Pitching To VC’s at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference
Larry Gregory has put together an interesting VC panel for the upcoming Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles in mid-September. Rather than the typical VC panel – where we get to ...
Dear Palestinian Bomber
In today’s “direct mail databases are broken” category, the Huffington Post has a short piece titled “California Man Receives Credit Card Offer Addressed to ‘Palestinian Bomber’” Of course, the person ...
August 24, 2005
Philandering Entrepreneurs or Sour Grapes
In the “best entrepreneur gossip blog post” of the day category, Alan Meckler and the guys from LightReading.com give a public example of the issues in the intellectual exchange that ...
Send Gmail From Any Address
Now – here’s a feature that’s useful for all the Gmail addicts in the world. Now, you can have your “From” address be anything you want for an email you ...
Everyone Is Twittering About Chat
Or is that “everyone is chatting about twittering?” Google released Google Talk yesterday. While it’s an obvious first step, it’s unremarkable. Apparently, in response, Microsoft released MSN Messenger 7.5. A ...
August 23, 2005
Term Sheet Series Wrap Up
Jason and I hope you enjoyed reading our term sheet series at least as much as we enjoyed writing it. While we won’t be competing with our friend Jack Bauer for ...
Term Sheet: Indemnification and Assignment
We’re down to our last two sections on a typical VC term sheet. Since they are both things that most entrepreneurs simply live with as part of a financing, we ...