The very first angel investment I made after I sold my first company was in a company called NetGenesis. Will Herman and I were the initial seed investors; I was chairman of the company for the first couple of years. Eric Richard was one of the co-founders and one of the technical brains behind the company. Eric stayed actively involved with company for much longer than I did – through the IPO and then the ultimate sale to SPSS.
I haven’t seen Eric much over the last eight or so years, but we email periodically. This morning, among other things, he pointed me to the first letter to the editor that he’s had published. It’s a letter in his local paper (the Sudbury Town Crier) titled: Nobody cares about 50 years from now. Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” had an impact on Eric and he writes eloquently about it. Regardless of whether or not you believe in “the crisis of global warming”, Eric’s thoughts and suggestions apply.