December 31, 2005
Snowshoeing in Colorado
Amazingly, I’ve lived in Colorado for 10 years and haven’t ever gone snowshoeing. Since I lost my Pilates virginity this week, I figured I’d try a second kind of cross-training ...
Practical 409A Valuation Question
In the spirit of the New Year, I’m trying to blog the questions that I’m getting that I think could have broad interest. Here’s another one. Remember – I’m not ...
December 30, 2005
Pilates and Marathoning
Every good marathoner knows he should cross-train. Most of the ones I know struggle with “cramming it in” as marathon training already consumes at least ten hours a week. Triathletes have ...
Investment Agents – Good or Bad?
Over the past year, I’ve regularly gotten questions via email on venture capital and entrepreneurship from readers of this blog. I always try to respond. A number of these questions ...
December 29, 2005
The Deathstar Rises
I sat stunned this morning as I read that AT&T (the “new name” for SBC) is going to spend $1 billion on a branding campaign.
For that? Now, I’m well ...
December 28, 2005
The Web’s Unintended Consequences
When I saw my first demo of the World Wide Web at an MIT Athena Cluster in 1994 (it was Freshman Fishwrap – among other things – running on a ...
409A – Tying Up Loose Ends
This is our last post on 409A until the IRS issues more guidance or accepts some of the comments it has received during the comment period. In other words, we ...
Spam, Haiku, and You
Spam, Haiku and YouDelicious, scary, nastyFunny short movie
Thanks Alex, Matt, and Chris
Suggestions for CEO New Year’s Resolutions
Scott Maxwell at Insight Partners has a list of his top 10 possible New Year’s Resolutions for Emerging Growth Company CEOs. While all are good, #10 is the most important.
December 27, 2005
409A – Mythbusters
Perhaps the only upside to the 409A panic in the start up world has been some of the urban legends that have already popped up. Jason and I aren’t your ...
Implementing the Google Map API
When I woke up this morning, I decided that I wanted to see how hard it was to implement a map using the Google Map API (god only knows why I ...
December 26, 2005
409A – IRS Update – Maybe The Sky Isn’t Falling
On Friday, Jason and I received an early Festivus / Hanumas gift from an attorney who asked to remain nameless, but we thank him nevertheless. He clued us in to ...
Sputnik vs. Atlas Shrugged
I spent a delightful few days in Aspen with Amy, my uncle Charlie, and his wife Cindy. My first computer experience was at a Frito-Lay office in Dallas when I ...
IceBug Shoes
I’ve been training for my next marathon (The Miami Marathon on 1/29/06). Given that it’s winter in Colorado I’ve been spending a lot of time on my treadmill to avoid ...
FeedDemon 2.0 Is Coming
I’ve been using FeedDemon 1.6 RC2 (the version that synchronizes with NewsGator Online) for the past two months as my feed reader. I monitor over 400 blogs a day and ...