March 31, 2007
Announcing the Defrag Conference
Last year, Eric Norlin sent me an email in response to my post titled Intelligence Amplification which was an attempt to put a label on the theme for companies I’d been investing in that ...
March 30, 2007
TechStars Joins the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado
Earlier this week, TechStars announced that it is joining the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCo) and is pledging 1% of its equity to EFCo. As a co-founder of both EFCo ...
March 27, 2007
Anonymous Bullies
I got back to my hotel room after a long and enjoyable day – my first day back from a glorious week off – and did a quick Techmeme check ...
March 26, 2007
Rally Wins the Jolt Award – Again
In a shameless plug for my portfolio company Rally Software, they have once again won the “Oscar equivalent” for their industry segment – the Jolt Excellence Award in the Project ...
TechStars Application Deadline is Saturday
If you’ve been thinking about applying to TechStars but have been procrastinating, the time to do it is now as the application deadline is Saturday 3/31/07. While we currently have ...
More Stupid Than A Lawyer?
A guest blog from my partner and Ask the VC co-author Jason Mendelson.
In case you’ve ever found yourself cursing lawyers and / or the legal system (I do on a ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s 2006 Chairman’s Letter
I’m a huge Warren Buffett fan and have been for as long as I can remember. Buffett has recently posted his annual blog post (also known as the Berkshire Hathaway’s ...
Will’s Work Life Balance Story
A bunch of good blogging occurred during my Q1 vacation. I’ve scanned through most of it and landed on a highly relevant story for any obsessive entrepreneur to start their morning ...
March 25, 2007
Back on the Grid
Amy and I just got back from an awesome week off. We flew to Laguna Beach for our Q1 vacation, disconnected completely, and hid from the world for a week. Lots ...
March 17, 2007
Good Overview of TechStars
The Boulder County Business Reporter has a good summary of TechStars, synthesizing some of the stuff we are trying to do. The application deadline is coming up (3/31/07) – there ...
March 16, 2007
Quick Game of Where Am I Today
Here’s another one. What a view. Floor number please (hint > 50).
March 15, 2007
Fear of Failure
Dick Costolo, the CEO of FeedBurner, has another awesome post up titled Too Many Companies??
He starts with the observation:
“There aren’t “too many companies in the market right now”. Even ...
Got a Blackberry? Get NewsGator Go!
If you’ve got a Blackberry, you can now get your RSS feeds on it via NewsGator Go! for Blackberry. There’s also a new version of NewsGator Go! for Java that ...
YAWP – Yet Another Widget Post
While the SXSW crowd is a-twitter, I’m still thinking about the range of private emails I’ve gotten about my widget post. While some of the comments were assertions that I’m an ...
March 13, 2007
Looking for Web-based Political News Infrastructure
As you may know, Denver is hosting the 2008 Democratic Convention. I recently met with a major media company that is looking to do a specialized political information site built ...