Simeon Simeonov, the Founder & CEO of FastIgnite, has put together a nice Stock Option Vesting Calculator. It works just fine for stock vesting as well. Sim is a dynamite entrepreneur who has also done a tour of duty as a VC so he knows the drill well. In the email he sent me about it he said it was inspired to put it together after reading several of the posts in the Term Sheet Series that Jason Mendelson and I wrote several years ago.

I’ve felt unsettled since we landed in DC on Saturday. During my run this afternoon on the Washington Mall, I decided to attribute some of it to the redeye I took from Seattle mid-week and some of it to Washington DC itself. Let’s start with the redeye. I’m 43. When I was in my 20’s and early 30’s, I regularly took redeye’s (often as frequently as once a week). Five hours of sleep on the plane due to my superpower of being able to sleep from wheels up to wheels down, a quick shower, an extra long toothbrushing session, and I was good for a full day. Wednesday night I took JetBlue from Seattle to Boston. Five solid hours of sleep followed by a ride to my hotel. I brushed my teeth and then crawled into bed at 8am for a little more sleep. I woke up at 1pm, had a meeting, and then went back to sleep until 5pm. After dinner I went to sleep around 10 and slept until 7. I felt like shit when I woke up, had a full day, and crashed again at 10pm Friday night. It’s Sunday and I finally don’t feel tired. Yesterday, I sent my assistant Kelly a note that said “Don’t ever let me fly on a redeye again.”

My friends at OneRiot and Adaptive Blue are organizing the second annual Add-on-Con. It is being held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on Dec 11. If you are involved in a company that makes browser add-ons of any sort, this conference is for you. The conference is a full day of discussions about the browser and browser add-on market. The closing keynote is on the future of the web browser and is moderated by Douglas Crockford and features representatives from Microsoft, Mozilla and Google.

Every day I get emails from entrepreneurs that make me think. In this case, it’s from a friend who is on the fundraising trail. He started off the email with “I felt compelled to share this with you as someone who would appreciate it.” I thought it was dynamite and asked him if I could share it since – in its unedited form – it captured so nicely what I expect many entrepreneurs feel. And, just as importantly, it’s something I hope VC’s realize that entrepreneurs – even very experienced ones – feel.

At dinner tonight we started telling miserable airplane travel stories. Everyone has a least one (or 7,321) so it’s fun to hear some of the really abysmal ones, especially the night before I head to the airport to catch an early morning flight. We were also talking about various philosophies of life and how to deal with difficult stuff. After a while the conversation circled back to air travel. And then I heard the best line of the night.

We’ve been investors in Oblong since 2007 and I’ve talked about them regularly on this blog including a post titled I’ve Seen The Future from my first meeting with them. I’ve known two of the founders – John Underkoffler and Kevin Parent – since we lived together at MIT (we all lived in a fraternity called ADP on Mass Ave. at the same time, along with a bunch of other entrepreneurs including Colin Angle – the founder of iRobot and Jeet Singh / Joe Chung – the founders of ATG.)

Three of my VC friends (Santo Politi, Mark Suster, and Kate Mitchell) were on Fox Business’ Capitalist Ad”Ventures” series. The underlying theme of this segment was the characteristics of entrepreneur that VCs look for. Fox doesn’t seem to have embeds, so you’ll have to use this URL to watch “The Future of Venture Capitalism”. While Santo, Mark, and Kate weren’t the maniacal crazy people (although I’m sure some will argue that), they were clear about the ones they are looking for. Nice job gang!

We spend a lot of time talking about “computers in the home” as part of our Digital Life theme. Over the past year, I’ve heard the phrase “Home Networking” with increasing frequency. It made the rounds a while back (anyone remember when it was called a HAN – home area network) but seemed to fade into the background for a while. I’m not sure what caused it to show up at our party again (although I’m suspicious that it is Windows 7), but it’s back.

There are two CU Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged events next week – one on Monday November 2nd at CU Boulder in Atlas Room 100 and one on Wednesday November 4th at the Denver Art Museum. The 11/2 Entrepreneurs Unplugged is with Steve Halstedt, the co-founder of Centennial Ventures. Steve co-founded Centennial in 1981 and was one of the fathers of the venture capital business in Colorado. When I moved to Boulder in 1995, Steve was one of the first VCs I met with here and he’s been a great friend and mentor ever since. I look forward to interviewing him about his experiences, especially how entrepreneurship has evolved in Colorado since the early 1980’s. Please register and join us!