January 31, 2008
What Are Your Vices?
Today’s WallStrip might be the best ever.
Julie and her friends act out what people that are heavy into public equities are thinking.
January 30, 2008
Hi – I am a Stupid Patent
A day doesn’t go by without yet another stupid software patent appearing. At least people are writing about them.
Amazon (via A9.com) just received a patent for Error processing methods ...
Barking at SEO
If you don’t know what SERP is, don’t bother reading on. But – if you care about where your site shows up in the search engines, take a look at ...
Speaking of Dark Matter
Intense Debate just did another release and wrote up some of the features in their post Comment System Makeover. They are on a regular release rhythm (about twice a month) ...
Lijit Acquires BigSwerve
I love it when companies I’m an investor in use an acquisition strategy. My good friend and long time co-investor Fred Wilson calls it a "venture rollup." It’s very different ...
January 29, 2008
How I Describe Alaska
When people find out that I’ve spent a lot of time in Alaska, they often ask me what it’s like. After struggling to describe it in a simple way that ...
January 27, 2008
When Is The Release?
A company I have a small investment in has been struggling to get the most recent version of their software shipped. A few weeks ago I ran into the CEO ...
Who is That?
I have a handful of chronic grammar problems. I received the following email yesterday:
You seem like an intelligent guy. But you insist on referring to your friends as, "that." If ...
January 25, 2008
Google News Copyright 2007
While I’m usually amused by the copyright gaffes I see, I laughed out loud when I saw that Google News was still Copyright 2007 (thanks to dschwartz for the tip.) ...
The NewsGator Feed Archive Service
In his post titled Feed Archaeology Charlie Wood writes about the little known NewsGator Archive Service. NewsGator has archived all the RSS feeds that its users have subscribed to since it ...
I Got My Bathroom
If you know me, you know that I have a weird obsession with bathrooms. It goes back a long time and definitely has some strange psychologic underpinnings that I’m sure ...
January 24, 2008
Let’s Dance
Great advice from Julie Alexandria on WallStrip to all the big thinkers in Davos who are Scornful of US Policies and worried about the impact of the fall of the ...
January 23, 2008
Burning Out
Andrew Hyde – the wonderful, fun, and friendly founder of StartupWeekend – wrote a great post recently On Burning Out. He’s back – after taking a long break – which ...
January 22, 2008
TechStars 2008 Applications Are Open
The TechStars 2008 Applications are now open. Last year we had 302 applications and accepted 10 companies. 8 of the 10 companies are now either financed or profitable and several ...
What I Learned At The University Venture Fund Conference Last Week
I was a keynote speaker at the University Venture Fund Conference last Friday. I had a great time and was blown away by the quality of the 300+ undergrad and ...