On my way back from the Homer airport this morning (five minute drive from my house) after dropping off a pair of packages at Fedex (yes – Fedex is here – at the airport – but you’ve got to drop off by 10:30 for next day delivery) I saw a sign that caught my eye. Local. Organic. Wi-Fi. The sign was outside the Sourdough Express Bakery , one of Homer’s local restaurant institutions (it’s been around since 1982 and is on the “must eat there once every summer” list.) ...
Amy and I stayed in downtown Boulder over the weekend. It was pouring rain on Friday afternoon, flawlessly beautiful on Saturday through Sunday morning when we went for a long walk on the Boulder Creek Path, and then it snowed overnight last night. Here’s the view from our window. My iPhone tells me that it’s going to be 70 degrees on Wednesday. Welcome to spring time in Boulder.
Colorado HB10-1193 – also known as the “Amazon Tax” – really upset me as I wrote about in Amazon Fires Its Affiliates in Colorado (Including Me) Because of Colorado HB 10-1193 . While I discovered a partial solution via a service from a company called Viglink which I wrote about in I’m An Amazon Affiliate Again – Sort Of I’m still really annoyed with the myopia of our Colorado state representatives around this issue. ...
After the chaos of some days, it’s a delight to come home, stand outside, and look at my backyard. Today was (another) one of those days.
Amy and I love sushi. While my sushi dining experiences have been limited to the US and Europe, I’ve had a number of amazing sushi dinners, including Masa in New York. Boulder has a bizarrely large number of sushi restaurants and over the years we’ve frequented them all numerous times. A year or so ago a new one – Kasa Japanese Grill and Bar – opened up on the corner of Pearl and 15th. It’s around the corner from our condo in Boulder so we stopped in a few times. The first time went there it was empty, but the owner and manager Mimi was delightful and upbeat, shining her happiness on us. As we kept going back, the number of people in the restaurant at any given time increased, but Mimi always welcomed us as if she was welcoming us into her home, doted over us, and made sure we had an amazing time. ...
Andrew Hyde has decided to organize another Boulder Startup Week on May 4 – 8, 2010. Tons of folks are already committed to host events including Trada, Pivotal Labs, Everlater, QuickLeft, TechStars , Napkin Labs, and SurveyGizmo . The Boulder New Tech Meetup and Ignite Boulder is also happening that week. It’s free – register now and mark it on Plancast.
The Boulder Fiber Forever project to bring Google’s 1 Gbps fiber network to Boulder is having a flash mob at the Walnut Brewery (1123 Walnut Street) today (Sunday) from 3pm – 6pm. Come join us, but first go to Boulderfiber.com and add your support for the effort. Then, head over the the Walnut Brewery between 3pm and 6pm, mention Boulderfiber, and get pints of some of the best beer in Boulder for $2.25. ...
I’ve been an Amazon Associate (Amazon’s affiliate program) for many years. Today I got the following notice in my Amazon Associates account. and I woke up to the following email. Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate: We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. The regulations are burdensome and no other state has similar rules. The new regulations do not require online retailers to collect sales tax. Instead, they are clearly intended to increase the compliance burden to a point where online retailers will be induced to “voluntarily” collect Colorado sales tax — a course we won’t take. ...
If you live in Boulder, it’s time to help bring the Google Fiber experiment to our awesome city. A bunch of folks from all over Boulder are working on the Boulder Fiber project to help us become one of the cities for the Google Fiber for Communities project. Boulder is a perfect city for this. When I moved here in 1995 I didn’t expect to engage in much business as I was spending most of my time in Boston, NY, and San Francisco. However, I discovered an incredibly smart community that was extremely computer and Internet savvy. As the commercial Internet started to take off in the mid-1990’s, Boulder was a hotbed for Internet usage and innovation as we rapidly became an incredibly wired city. I attributed this to the convergence of (a) a smart, well-educated population, (b) a university at the core of the city, (c) a bunch of national labs, (d) a solid legacy of tech startups, especially around storage, cable, and telecom, and (e) a strong culture of independence which was well suited to all things Internet. ...
Amy Cosper, the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine , swung through Boulder recently and interviewed me, Scott McDaniel & Christian Vaneh of Survey Gizmo , Ari Newman of Filtrbox (recently acquired by Jive Software), Todd Vernon of Lijit Networks , and Tim Enwall of Tendril Networks . Unlike my two hour TWiST interview with Jason Calacanis , these are all short (less than three minutes each), punchy, and give you a great feel for some of my favorite Boulder entrepreneurs.