September 30, 2006
VC-Inside Out Podcast
Pascal Levensohn and his partners at Levensohn Venture Partners have started a new podcast on Venture Capital called VC-Inside Out. The first two episodes are up: (1) Six Early Warning Signs ...
September 28, 2006
Annoying Term Sheet Things
Rick Segal is in the middle of a negotiation and is having some frustration with his co-investor – a “US VC” – around settling on a few terms that he ...
I Feel Powerful
My partner Ryan McIntyre has another thoughtful post up about the “power in the data center problem.”
Good Morning Vietnam
I felt like that wonderful Robin Williams character when I fired up FeedDemon this morning and saw the flood of patent posts from Jim Moore and then bounced around Google ...
September 27, 2006
Cecelia Feld – Prints: A Journey
The images from my mom’s new show – “Prints: A Journey” – are now up on her website. I like them all, but I especially dig the Rothko-like solarplates.
If you ...
September 26, 2006
Agile Development In Action
If you are a Typepad blogger, you’ll be especially interested in this. Now – from within your NewsGator Online subscriber list – you can easily add the subscriber list to your ...
My Bored Meeting
Andy Sack – CEO of Judy’s Book – wrote a nice summary of last week’s “bored” meeting, along with our meeting after in Boulder, and his new found inspiration to ...
IBM Takes Another Step To Changing The Patent Process
As I’ve written before, I’m a huge critic of the existing patent process, especially as it applies to software patents. Today, the NY Times has an article up describing how ...
September 25, 2006
Valuable Wikipedia Information
For those of you that share my fascination with the versatility of the word “fuck”, Wikipedia has a comprehensive entry listing the films that most frequently use said word. The ...
Do Your Investors Use Your Product?
Brad Spirrison has a nice article in the Chicago Sun-Times titled Feedburner’s investors have its technology at their fingertips. Among other things, he highlights that three of the FeedBurner investors ...
Alaska Bears
Having seen a few bears up front and personal (think “20 yards away”), I know how incredibly intense they are. Chris Wand send me this link from a set of ...
September 24, 2006
Under The Cover of FeedBurner’s Feed Stats
While I was on vacation, my friends at FeedBurner wrote a long post describing their stats methodology in detail, using the popular TechCrunch blog as the example (with the permission ...
There Is A Major Software Innovation Wave Coming
I was at lunch last week with a friend and his business partner – my friend is an ex-technology VC who is now running an interesting blend of a public ...
KidsTek 6th Annual Tech Leader’s Dinner
Amy and I have been supporters of KidsTek for the past several years, even since we were introduced to it by Pat Maley when he was the CEO of Dante Group ...
September 23, 2006
Tom Coates: Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts
I just stumbled upon an outstanding presentation that Tom Coates (who writes plasticbag.org) gave last week at the Future of Web Apps conference. In addition to being excellent content, it’s ...