December 31, 2009
Mike Wallace Interviews Ayn Rand About Objectivism
My dad sent me an incredible thirty minute interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace in 1959 which I just watched on my iPhone during a treadmill run. I’m a ...
December 30, 2009
What Is The Definition of An Angel Investor?
Yesterday I had a good conversation with Nivi, the co-author of the great Venture Hacks blog. He recently added me to AngelList, a directory of angel and seed investors that ...
December 29, 2009
Snow and Ski Data for Colorado
At my last Boulder Community Hours (or Random Day, or Bunker Hours, or whatever the latest branding of “office hours” is), I spent 15 minutes with Joel Gratz who runs ...
December 28, 2009
Where Do My Music Rights Start and Stop?
Last night I had a long ranging conversation with Amy and a pair of close friends about the singularity and the future of human and machine. The conversation centered around ...
December 27, 2009
The Amazing RedLaser
We’ve run TechStars in Boulder for three years. So far each year at least one of the teams ends up with a runaway success on a bootstrapped business. In year ...
December 26, 2009
My Mom In Kindergarten and Some of Her Photographs
Speaking of brilliant photographs, my mom sent me two yesterday. The first one is her dressed in PJ’s reciting “Twas the Night Before Christmas” to her kindergarten class. I remember ...
An Honorable Run and American Power
When I’m at my house in Keystone, I work my way through my infinite pile of physical books rather than reading on my Kindle. It’s always a mystery as to ...
December 23, 2009
Startup Visa End of Year Update
As we finish up the year, I’m really pleased with the progress the Startup Visa gang is making. I started thinking about, writing, and working on this on 9/10/09 when ...
Startup Visa OpEd in the Wall Street Journal
After having a few conversations yesterday about the Startup Visa, I realized that I never posted the Wall Street Journal OpEd on the Startup Visa that Paul Kedrosky and I ...
December 22, 2009
The Downsides of Large Syndicates
There were some great comments on my post from Sunday titled Being Syndication Agnostic. One of them was from Kevin Vogelsang – he asked the following question:
What are the downsides ...
December 21, 2009
Wi-Fi on Airplanes Finally Coming
I’m not on an airplane again until 2010 (1/6/10 to be exact when I head to Las Vegas for CES) which is a relief since I flew 87 segments 2009. ...
December 20, 2009
Being Syndication Agnostic
Bijan Sabet started it with a great post titled We Gotta Do A Deal Together and Fred Wilson followed with an equally great post titled Trading Deals, A Lost Art? ...
December 19, 2009
Help Reform Computer Science Education
Regular readers of this blog know that I’m Chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology. In five years, NCWIT has become a prominent national organization helping encourage, ...
Short URL’s Are Entertainingly Out of Control
I’m really pleased that FeedBurner has finally implemented a Socialize feature. With a few settings, I can now connect my Twitter account to my FeedBurner profile and, when I post ...
December 18, 2009
Score Two Wins Against Software Patents
I have to keep reminding myself that some things just take a long time. My rampage against software patents continues and, while my efforts around the StartupVisa have dominated my ...