February 28, 2007
Succeeding by Failing
Business 2.0 has a good article titled A startup’s best friend? Failure. on how to succeed by paying attention and responding to failure. Dogster, Google, and Riya (Like.com) are profiled. ...
Widgets, Stats, and Blogroll Crawling
I owe David Cohen a cross-post on widgets in our Big or Bullshit series. This isn’t it – I’ll get to it. But – my hint is that while they ...
Education, Education, Education
I am often asked “what the state government in Colorado should do to help promote entrepreneurship and innovation.” My answer is consistent – “education, education, education.” I went to school ...
The Blackberry Thumboff
WallStrip’s edition on RIMM is priceless.
Bijan – you are the man – how about them thumbs. Fred – more finger pushups for you.
February 27, 2007
The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado
Yesterday a group of us announced the creation of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. This is a project I’ve been working on since last fall that I’m especially proud of. ...
Venture Capital Outlook 2007 in Boulder
Just a reminder that the MIT Enterprise Forum will be having an event tomorrow night in Boulder called “Ask the VC: Venture Capital Outlook for 2007.” The Forum will start ...
February 25, 2007
How Many Founders Does A Startup Need?
I love my NewsGator and Technorati key word search feeds – they help me find the most interesting things. A NewsGator key word search on “Ryan McIntyre” picked up this ...
February 24, 2007
What’s Special About 2,147,483,649?
Nick Harris – the author of NewsGator’s Inbox product – has a detailed post up explaining the boundary condition he just ran into that forced him to do a quick ...
Book Review: Dreaming in Code
I just spent the last four hours lying on the couch reading Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software. I’ve been ...
February 23, 2007
Venture Capital in the Rockies Summary
Our regional event – Venture Capital in the Rockies – was excellent this year. I’m usually good for a half a day at something like this – I managed to ...
Show Me the People
Ah – growth is good. A number of my portfolio companies have recently increased the pace at which they are hiring, especially on the technical side. StillSecure is working on an exciting ...
Tech Tips for Small Business
Hema Oza at TheStreet.com wrote an article after an email interview with me titled Tech Tips for Small Business. She captured the interview well – my current favorites are my ...
February 22, 2007
Up To Date Local Data (or not)
My partner Jason just told me about a Google Local search experience he and Ryan McIntyre just had. They were out last weekend guitar shopping. Jason is looking for a ...
Don’t Be Casual
Coming out of the Venture Capital in the Rockies conference, I was pleasantly surprised with how solid most of the presentations were. There was plenty of pre-conference preparation, practice, and ...
February 21, 2007
Addicted to Email?
Email addicts now have a 12 step process to help them.