November 20, 2008
Some Practical Advice For Getting Profitable
Ted Rheingold at Dogster has a great post up titled 10 Tips for Building a Profitable Business. My favorite is #4: Spend at least 50% of your time selling.
Many technology ...
Feld Thoughts on Down to Business
The nice folks at Down to Business have republished my post The Priorities of a Venture Capitalist.
Down to Business is a website and online show that is a fresh ...
Lookery Site of the Week
Thanks to the guys at Lookery for making Feld Thoughts their site of the week. As an endless obsessed data weenie, I’m enjoying seeing the data and demographics that Lookery ...
November 19, 2008
Take Responsibility For Your Actions
I made a mistake this morning. I allowed myself to get ramped up during my morning information routine. As I read through my online news and feeds, I kept seeing ...
November 17, 2008
Ian Rogers Speaks on The Future of the Music Industry
Ian Rogers – the CEO of Topspin – just posted his entire keynote speech (with slides) from the GRAMMY Northwest MusicTech Summit 2008. The pivot slide of the presentation:
It’s been ...
Add-on-Con
Are you into browser Add-on’s? The first Add-on-Con is happening on December 11th in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum. My friends at OneRiot and AdaptiveBlue are organizing it ...
TechStars on Current TV
Current TV ran a great segment on TechStars tonight. I hung out in the bunker with a bunch of the TechStars gang (including the Foodzie folks who are highlighted.) Following ...
Oblong – Seeing Is Believing
At Foundry Group, we’ve been talking about human computer interaction (HCI) as one of our key investment themes. Our premise behind HCI is that the way humans interact with computers ...
November 14, 2008
NewsGator’s Star Shines Bright
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I’ve been an investor in NewsGator since it was one person (Greg Reinacker – the founder). We had a ...
November 13, 2008
A Few Requests for President-elect Obama
I’ve been an unabashed Obama supporter for a while. I’m glad he’s going to be our next president and am optimistic about his leadership. I’ve been enjoying listening to some ...
Zynga Live Poker Launches
Two years ago if you had told me that I’d be playing Texas Hold’em Poker with my Facebook friends on cell phone and enjoying it I would have snickered. Well ...
November 11, 2008
Tom Evslin for FCC Chairman
I didn’t come up with this idea – Om Malik did. But he’s absolutely right – Obama needs to look outside the beltway for many key positions, including FCC Chair. ...
The Morning Pre-Run Rundown
As I stall before I head out the door for an hour run in the cold, dark mountains outside my house, I thought I’d share some of the interesting stuff ...
November 10, 2008
Tony Stark Was In My Graduating Class at MIT
I was reading through Technology Review in the bathroom this morning and came across a quick piece on Iron Man that I missed during the movie. Apparently Tony Stark was ...
November 9, 2008
Crash Course – Growing a Startup Amid Uncertain Economic Times
On Wednesday, November 12th Silicon Flatirons is hosting a panel discussion titled Crash Course – Growing a Startup Amid Uncertain Economic Times. The discussion will be held at Room 204 ...