We hit a rainy stretch the past few days – good for reading; not so good for getting a sun tan.  In addition to The Big Six, I managed to finish four other books this week.  All of them were good, but for different reasons. Hayduke Lives! was the funnest (and the only one that was […]

I read less this week than I read last week (mostly because it was a busy week) but I still managed to get through five books.  Looking back on the week, four of them were business books, which is unusual for me – I think I was stalling reading the last Dennis Lehane book for […]

Amy and I have been strong supporters of the expansion to the Denver Art Museum (the Hamilton Building.)  I think Daniel Libeskind has designed an awesome building, Lewis Sharp (the director of the Denver Art Museum) has shown incredible vision and leadership, the team at the Denver Art Museum has done an unbelievable job, and the extended Denver […]

Often there’s a perception that to be a successful CEO, you need to be an extrovert.  Media and pop culture reinforces this – we regularly see people that are comfortable in the spotlight and equate them with the model of success. I’ve always had a number of CEOs and entrepreneurs that I’ve worked with that […]

I’ve been chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology for the past year.  I recently wrote an article – which is up on the NCWIT web site – on why I chose to get involved in NCWIT.  I’ve reposted it here for convenience.  The most common question I’ve received over the past […]

Earlier this summer I was invited up to Fairbanks, Alaska by the Fairbanks Economic Development Corporation to talk about entrepreneurship.  I decided to swing up to Fairbanks at the end of our Alaska trip to check things out.  Amy grew up in Fairbanks and we’ve been there plenty of times to visit friends, but I’d never […]

I’ve read eight books since my last book review – none were notable enough for me to write about (although What the Dormouse Said came close, but Fred Wilson covered it.)  I just finished Wayne McVicker’s book Starting Something: An Entrepreneur’s Tale of Control, Confrontation & Corporate Culture.  It was fantastic. Wayne was the co-founder of […]

Bernard Moon – a VP at GoingOn (a new company recently launched by AlwaysOn / Tony Perkins and friends) – has written a good post on building a team from an entrepreneur’s perspective in a startup.  While VCs can blather on – well – almost anything – I think the “really good stuff” comes from entrepreneurs […]

I spent a day in Washington DC last week on my continued mission to evangelize for the National Center for Women & Information Technologies.  We had an evening event that was kindly hosted by the folks at McKenna Long & Aldridge with our local Colorado Congressman Mark Udall keynoted the evening. In between my normal […]