Entrepreneurship

I’ve been listening to NPR since I was 7 years old.  Whenever my mom or dad drove me to school, NPR’s Morning Edition was playing.  Guilty weekend pleasures of mine

I was at a board meeting recently and the notion of potentially hiring a COO came up.  I blurted out "I don’t believe in COO’s."  An interesting conversation ensued, in

Terry Gold has a nice long rant up on his blog titled The Auditors are here!  Now, some of my best friends are auditors, but the state, dynamics, and incentives

Alan Shimel has a fantastic post up titled Do they have to grow up?  As I read it, I thought of some of the great lessons my dad taught me

My long time friend Ben Neumann has a detailed post up titled Network Outage.  Ben is CEO / owner of Globat, a successful web hosting company.  I met Ben through

Mitchell Ashley has an excellent post up titled Fail Early, Fail Often.  I’m seeing a little more chatter about failure, introspection about how it feels, and suggestions about how to

My friend Bruce Wyman – who is the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum – turned me on to Gordon Ramsay‘s Kitchen Nightmares.  Early this morning I discovered

My partner Seth Levine has a cathartic post up titled Failure where he describes failure from a VC’s point of view.

A company I have a small investment in has been struggling to get the most recent version of their software shipped.  A few weeks ago I ran into the CEO

Andrew Hyde – the wonderful, fun, and friendly founder of StartupWeekend – wrote a great post recently On Burning Out.  He’s back – after taking a long break – which