May 26, 2006
Florida Venture Capital?
Dan Rua sent me a link to his new Florida Venture Blog, subtitled No-BS Venture Thoughts for No-BS Entrepreneurs. There’s plenty of good stuff there if you are interested in ...
Capgemini CTO Blog and 24
Amy and I had a delicious lunch with Pierre-Denis Autric at Ristorante Gallo Romano near Notre Dame. Pierre-Denis met me through my blog, dropped me an email inviting me out ...
Senator Barack Obama Speech at NCWIT’s Town Hall
Senator Barack Obama spoke at the National Center for Women & Information Technology Town Hall last week. If you are an Obama fan, or just want to hear about what ...
May 25, 2006
Verne Harnish on Managing Growth
Will Price at Hummer Winblad has a really nice blog post up on a speech he attended by Verne Harnish the other day.
Verne is a long time friend, extremely ...
Telcontar in China
Fortunately, as Jack Bauer tries to find his way around China next season, he’ll have Telcontar’s maps to help him. And no – I really don’t think they are going ...
May 24, 2006
Salesforce.com Impresses Me
Today Salesforce.com had a set of major announcements around their AppExchange platform, including the release of the AppExchange OEM Edition. One of my portfolio companies – Rally Software – participated ...
May 23, 2006
It Sucks Less
The motto for my first company was “We Suck Less.” Many years later, with the price of oil at some silly high price, it seems all the more appropriate as ...
Musee Rodin
Today’s Paris Art Tour is brought to you by “Rodin’s Very Own Personal Van Gogh.”
I woke up this morning, had an expresso (my very bad French for “really tiny, really ...
May 22, 2006
Users and Usability
I did a quick podcast interview with Outside In Innovation a few weeks ago when I was at MIT at Eric von Hippel’s Innovation Lab seminar. There are two segments – ...
Guernica: The Most Important Painting Done in 1937
I just read Picasso’s War, the story of his creation of the painting by the same name, the history of Spain that inspired the painting, and the subsequent activity around the ...
Huh, I Wasn’t Paying Attention
Carolyn Curiel wrote an editorial yesterday in the NY Times titled “Let’s I.M. as You Read This.” A friend sent it to me with the suggestion that Carolyn might have ...
NCWIT’s Town Hall – IT Innovation and the Role of Diversity
NCWIT had a “town hall” event at the National Academy of Sciences Auditorium last Wednesday.
Along with the NCWIT participants were a number of special guests, including Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), ...
May 21, 2006
A Mental Model For VC Investments
A reader asked me the other day if – in the words of Charlie Munger – I have a “mental model” for investing in early stage companies. I do, but ...
May 20, 2006
Why Incorporate In Delaware?
Jason and I occasionally get asked “why are the majority of companies incorporated in Delaware, regardless of their actual physical location?“ Besides being difficult to spell (c’mon – you thought ...
What Part of Lockbox Don’t You Understand
Al Gore on SNL.
I have no idea if this is legal or not, but it’s hilarious. Thanks Don and Rick, my liberal friends.