April 30, 2008
My Dad And Brother In Chicago
In February, I took my dad away for our annual father – son weekend. This last weekend, he and my brother Daniel did their annual weekend together in Chicago. My ...
When I Said Email I Meant Messaging
In my I Love Email post, I got a wonderful comment from my friend Fred Wilson that said:
to each his/her own these days. my kids use facebook and text messaging ...
April 29, 2008
Why I Like My Lenovo X300 Better Than My MacBook Air
Perfect.
April 28, 2008
I Love Email
Email. Email. Email.
My partner Chris Wand just put up a post titled Did Darwin Skip Over Email? Every now and then the "Email is dead" meme makes the rounds and ...
I Don’t Know Revisited
I was in a meeting with one of our new portfolio companies today. In response to a non-obvious question, the CEO said "I don’t know is the answer to your ...
My New Skype Addiction
I am newly addicted to Skype.
Several weeks ago when I was in Keystone, I had total IP phone failure. We use a Cisco IP phone system in our office. ...
Rejection – Not By You, Really
Rejection isn’t failure. I’ve been back from vacation for five days (including the weekend) and I’ve send out around 100 50 (if felt like 100, but I went back and ...
Drama of the Week: Microsoft / Yahoo
My title is tongue in check. As Marc Andreessen said in his outstanding analysis of the situation in If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo – "So this may yet ...
April 27, 2008
Blood and the Trail Runner
You aren’t a real trail runner until you’ve taken a spill that draws blood. I had a doozy today at mile 4.
I was on a stretch of trail that ...
April 26, 2008
I Wonder What They Will Film in Jail?
Wesley Snipes apparently got a three year sentence for tax evasion this week. At least he’s pretty good at Karate and Kung Fu – I expect that will come in ...
Is Salesforce.com Switching To Macs?
There’s a rumor going around that Salesforce.com is switching all of its 4000 employees over to Macs. If so, this will be the first high profile complete Windows to Mac ...
April 25, 2008
The Closed Session of a Board Meeting
At the end of every board meeting I’m a part of we have a closed session. This is a session that includes only the board members. All of the boards ...
Dead Address Book Entries
I just did a search in my address book for someone and came up with the address book entry for someone I know that died last year.
I was sad. I ...
Why More Stress Is Not Inevitable
During my morning routine (90 – 120 minutes of catching up on email, reading my "daily" folder in Firefox, reading my RSS feeds, and blogging) I came across Alex Iskold’s ...
My Q1 Vacation in Q2
If you are a loyal reader of this blog, you know that Amy and I take a week completely off the grid every quarter. Well – I missed my Q1 ...