January 31, 2007
As Usual, I’m Nobody’s Market
After a brief email exchange today from an extremely smart and capable friend suggesting a potential feature for my blog, his response was “As usual, I’m nobody’s market.” He provided a ...
There Is No Need To Shake My Hand
At dinner the other night with an old friend, we somehow ended up discussing TV shows. I don’t watch much TV beyond my obsession with 24 and my relatively new ...
January 29, 2007
What Comes After Data?
Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures has an important and thought provoking post up titled What’s next? Whenever Brad writes something, I read it carefully – not only because he has a ...
January 27, 2007
Second Life Meetup in Boulder
If you are a Second Life dude and live in Boulder / Denver, there is now a local Meetup for you. The organizer – Richard Hackathorn – who is the ...
Be A TSA Agent for A Day
I’ve been flying a lot lately and – yes – it’s still frustrating to have to get undressed to go through security. I just found a neat online game called ...
January 26, 2007
More on Failing
I haven’t written much on failure since December so I was delighted to see several really insightful posts on the benefits and chocolatey goodness of failing. It started with Jeremy Liew’s (a ...
Mapping Books
I love books. I love cool things. I love when cool things and books collide. Some folks at Google have started a fantastically neat project. They are “mapping books” – think of ...
What Does It Take to Scale A Web 2.0 Startup?
Last year, the meme of “you can start a company for minimal capital” made the rounds. This is still true. But – it’s not trivial to scale a company for ...
NCWIT Heroes Campaign
At the National Center for Women & Information Technology we are about to embark on a “heroes campaign” – a new project to highlight 20 successful women IT entrepreneurs via ...
January 25, 2007
Human Computer Interaction
Over the holidays I read a magnificent book titled Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge. It’s an incredible collection of history combined with interviews from many of the great computer interface designers ...
Ben Casnocha In Boulder
A few weeks ago, Ben Casnocha showed up in Boulder to spend three months with us. I’ve gotten to know Ben over the past four years after having been introduced ...
January 23, 2007
Random Dinner in Philadelphia
One of the really cool things about entrepreneurship (and life in general) is being open to new people and new ideas. I’ve written about my random days policy in the past. ...
Where Am I?
Another day, another city. At least I saw a really cool sculpture today.
Ryan just posted Reason #73 He Hates Airports. Hint – “Caution, the moving walkway is nearing its end, ...
Eric Lunt on FeedBurner’s Hackathon
Yet another Hackathon at FeedBurner (#4). Guys – you really need to cut back on the sugar and caffeine. Eh – never mind – keep consuming! Eric (one of FeedBurner’s ...
NewsGator Enterprise On-Demand Ships
Jack Bauer was very busy last night. I didn’t realize his family was so large, or so evil. I expect his reunion with his dad won’t be as enjoyable as ...