I recently made an angel investment in Jonathan Weber’s (the former editor of The Industry Standard) new publishing venture – New West Network. I got turned on to Jonathan by Je
NewsGator recently announced a broad European partnership with VNU. The first fruit of their labors went live today – the French VNU / NewsGator RSS reader. Coincidentally, I had brea
Dick Costolo, the CEO of Feedburner, announced yesterday that we led their financing and that I have joined their board. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that read my
One of my companies – Quova – just had a month where they served over 2 billion queries from their customers. That’s 64m queries / day (or 750 / second)
I’ve never completely understood the whole cell phone industry subsidize handset thing, but I’ll roll with it (ok – I understand it – market share, total value of the customer,
There were a number of announcements from my portfolio companies in February. Following are some of the specific things in case you are interested. StillSecure announced support for Microso
NewsGator launched their NewsGator Media Platform product – a private label RSS service for the media industry – today. NewsGator Media Platform is based on NewsGator Online and Medi
Jim Lejeal has written a great post on Working With Microsoft. Jim is CEO of Oxlo – one of our companies – and was previously co-founder and COO of Raindance (now
Today, NewsGator announced a broad European partnership with VNU. NewsGator is partnering with VNU to distribute both their consumer and enterprise RSS services throughout Europe, with
Return Path just released a study showing that a majority of users of Gmail come from existing Microsoft Hotmail users who are switching to Gmail. The stats are interesting –