Venrock – one of the oldest venture capital firms (40 years old and going strong) has released a magnificent book titled Shaping the Future: 40 Years of Innovation.  While self

I retweet a lot of stuff – hopefully it’s useful to the folks that follow my twitter stream.  I try to keep the retweets relevant – either useful business stuff,

I had a dream last night.  In it, I was sitting in front of an old PC.  I typed: c: cd\ copy con config.sys files=255 buffers=32 <ctrl-z> I can’t remember

Suddenly the blogosphere is talking about the need for a standardized first round term sheet.  The latest iteration of this seems to have blossomed when TheFunded Founder Institute released a

Dave Jilk, my first business partner (Feld Technologies) and I have settled into a nice annual tradition of climbing a 14er each August.  This year we climbed three in one

I’ve personally made around 75 angel investments during two periods of time – 1994 – 1997 and 2006 – 2007.  The first was the period of time after I had

In January, I made a seed investment in a company called Standing Cloud.  My premise was that as “cloud computing” proliferated, it’d be a total mess for the typical application

I regularly get asked some variant of “what books would you recommend to an entrepreneur.”  I typically send a quick email answer along with a link to the list of

Or were you recently fired or laid off?  Or are you an analyst (especially someone in the typical two year pre-business school programs) at a consulting firm that hates your

I don’t know who’s managing the District 9 twitter marketing campaign, but their abuse of twitter (via their creation of Twam – “twitter spam”) just caused me to decide not