October 31, 2009
Maniacal Crazy People
Three of my VC friends (Santo Politi, Mark Suster, and Kate Mitchell) were on Fox Business’ Capitalist Ad”Ventures” series. The underlying theme of this segment was the characteristics of entrepreneur ...
October 30, 2009
Home Networking Is A Crappy Phrase
We spend a lot of time talking about “computers in the home” as part of our Digital Life theme. Over the past year, I’ve heard the phrase “Home Networking” with ...
Entrepreneurs Unplugged – Steve Halstedt and Nir Barkat
There are two CU Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged events next week – one on Monday November 2nd at CU Boulder in Atlas Room 100 and one on Wednesday November 4th ...
October 29, 2009
Oblong on Bloomberg Innovators
Bloomberg TV is running a show called Bloomberg Innovators. One of our portfolio companies – Oblong – is the focus of the first episode that airs this Friday (10/30) on ...
Snow Day In Eldorado Springs
In case you were wondering what the Boulder Snowstorm resulted in (so far – it’s still coming down) at my house in Eldorado Springs, here you go!
So there is ...
October 28, 2009
Add Another Zero
Talking about scale and growth is hard. Many people talk in percentages in pre-determined time periods (e.g. let’s grow revenue 100% next year). I find this to be relatively useless. ...
October 27, 2009
Time To Sign Up For Defrag
The Defrag Conference in Denver is just around the corner – November 11 and 12 to be exact. Eric Norlin has put together a remarkable agenda for this one including ...
Wonder Where I Am?
One of the challenges of living your life out in the open is signaling where you are going to be. I’ve struggled with this on and off, tried a bunch ...
October 23, 2009
It’s Not My Company
VCs say a lot of stupid things. I’m guilty of it plenty and whenever someone calls me on it I try to acknowledge and change. One that I try really ...
October 22, 2009
Ask a Ninja on Net Neutrality
On the heels of the FCC doing what everyone expected them to do today with regard to Net Neutrality, I thought I’d remind you of the awesome Ask a Ninja ...
Some Useful Articles on Net Neutrality
Yesterday I mentioned my strong support of Net Neutrality. As part of this, I signed on to a letter from a bunch of VC’s and entrepreneurs to Julies Genachowski, the ...
October 21, 2009
The Chaos That Is Today
Wow – I guess Web 2.0 is happening somewhere (fortunately I have a delegate there – my partner Ryan McIntyre). That not withstanding, the tempo of stuff going on today ...
Startup Visa Stories
I’m getting three to five Startup Visa stories a week at this point. A few are straightforward but most are complex and intellectually frightening, including one I read through yesterday ...
October 20, 2009
TechStars 2009 Demo Day in Seattle – 11/4/09
We are doing another TechStars 2009 Demo Day, this time in Seattle on 11/4/09. It’s part of a two day TechStars mini-reunion across all three TechStars years – part retreat, ...
October 19, 2009
TechStars Bloopers
If you’ve been watching the TechStars Founders video series, you’ll love the Behind the Scene (aka “bloopers”) episode that just came out.
The Founders | Behind the Scenes from Megan ...