May 30, 2007
The Computer Should Be Doing the Work for Us
Bruce Wyman, the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, sent me a beautiful demo from TED2007 by Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Photosynth. In addition to being graphically ...
Intense Running
On the outside, he is a quiet calm of a man. Watching him sitting and contemplating the madness surrounding him, you sense a deep serenity. Inside, however, the fires burn ...
What Do Photobucket and Last.fm Have in Common?
The number “2” (and in $250m and $280m.) Announcements at the WSJ D Conference? The checkbooks appear to be out in force again.
Young Entrepreneur Interview on ABC News
ABC interviews Ben Casnocha about entrepreneurship around Ben’s book tour for My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley. If you’ve never met ...
May 29, 2007
Human Computer Interaction Awakens
I expect one of the big buzzes tomorrow will be Microsoft’s Surface Computing initiative. The first articles are appearing and on10 has a First Look: Microsoft Surfacing Computing! video up that shows off a ...
Software Lives A Long Time
My friend Shawn Broderick (currently CEO / founder of TrustPlus) just wrote a blog post wishing Chron X a happy 10th birthday. I was an investor in Genetic Anomalies – ...
Scratch – A New Programming Language
40 years ago Logo was created. When I was at MIT in the 1980’s, I worked for a semester as a UROP (undergraduate research opportunities program) in Seymour Papert’s lab. ...
TechStars Week 1
David has a summary of the great first week at TechStars. The Intense Debate guys weighed in with a post of their own and the energy in the room was huge ...
May 28, 2007
Time to Stuff the Ballot Box
I’m amused by the endless awards that our industry bestows on people and companies, but I can’t avoid the seduction of asking you to vote. I promise you don’t have ...
May 27, 2007
The Best Start-Up Haiku
Scott Yates won a copy of Ben Casnocha’s book My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley with the best haiku in the contest ...
Why Do Computers Suck So Much?
It’s 2007. I was ready to go for my long run at 9am. It’s 9:27am. I’ve spent the last 27 minutes trying to get iTunes on my Vista-based laptop to ...
Wither Radio Shack
Is it “whither” or “wither?” I guess you’ll have to read the Onion article titled Even CEO Can’t Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business to determine which it is (hint ...
I Am A Feed Demon
On this delicious three day weekend (I love three day weekends), what would be more fun than a new version of FeedDemon. (Ok, I can think of a couple of ...
May 25, 2007
Don’t Adjust My EBITDA
In my first business, we didn’t have a line for EBITDA on our financial statement. We went straight to Net Income. We knew our cash flow from our statement of ...
May 24, 2007
We Suck Less Applied to Satellite Radio
The motto for my first company was “We Suck Less.” It’s one of my favorite lines and I think it’s a valid aspiration for many tech companies since so much ...