It’s another raining day in Boulder (weird) – maybe I’ll go to Boston tonight.  Oh – I heard it was raining there also.  I bet they don’t get hail in June.  Today’s reading is sponsored by Ted – the airline that never made any sense to me and is finally going away. – The Wall […]

I can’t decide what the most disturbing part of this is.  Robin Williams singing man-crush is reasonably close to the top.  Hollywood sure knows how to get its game on – writers strike or not.  I’m not even sure I’ve ever seen Jimmy Kimmel before.  I definitely don’t need to see him without a shirt […]

One of the great things about startups is that you get to "start from scratch" and create whatever culture you want.  You don’t get handed a 275 page how to act like a BigCo employee manual on your first day of work immediately prior to your two week orientation at a conference center in Iowa […]

Amy and I are proud to announce that we’ve completed the fundraising for Boulder Building New Orleans.  Our goal was to raise $50,000 to fund a high quality / low cost house in New Orleans for someone displaced by Hurricane Katrina.  Due to the generosity of many of our friends in Boulder (and several from […]

There are a handful of hysterical VC Holiday Cards.  I think the best one is The Adventures of Gary Snoman (produced by Blueprint Ventures.) Gary travels the world this year and helps us understand how VCs think about different cultures (or at least loads us up with a bunch of new cliches from the past […]

There are three long weekends each year that I love – Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving.  My entire world disconnects for each of them and they are great transitions for me. Amy and I spent the weekend up in Keystone with our friends Dave and Maureen.  I had a couple of great runs, lots […]

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know that one of my curious obsessions is bathrooms.  I don’t have an explanation for it – just chalk it up to self-awareness (that I view at it as a curious one.) Five years ago, I had a conversation with Heidi Roizen.  She had recently been […]

With all the focus and discussion around stuff like the Google – YouTube deal it’s easy to forget that there are lots of entrepreneurs out there working really hard to grow their businesses.  The culture of the tech industry has caused us to think in “monthly” and “quarterly” performance and – whether you think it’s good […]

The Agenda. This little one page document sets the tone, pace, and content of your board meeting. It’s fundamental to the success of a board meeting, so you’d think it wouldn’t be as screwed up as often as it is. As Jim Lejeal and I continue our Board of Directors series , we thought we […]