In the few weeks since I wrote the post The Founders Visa Movement there has been a ton of positive momentum, input, ideas, and support.  Thanks to the efforts of Dave McClure and Eric Ries, we shifted the name to the StartupVisa, figured out that the EB-5 visa was the most logical one to try to […]

I rang in the new year with some mental floss.  I found David Stone’s The Echelon Vendetta on one of our bookshelves in Keystone as I was looking around for a palate cleanser after my run of serious books last week. Last night I got about 80% of the way through it.  At around 11:20, […]

Yummy – that’s a fun tongue twister.  It doesn’t quite mean “synchronizing data”, but it’s in the same family.  I don’t have a better phrase yet for “renormalizing denormalized data”, but there is probably a construct for it that someone reading this blog can tell me (or invent – here’s your choice to replace the […]

I’m always amused at how many “lists” appear at the end of the year.  I’m anti-list – I never read them and I no longer am willing to contribute to them.  So – for some non-list reading for today, I present to you the best of what I read this morning on the web. Washington […]

A day doesn’t go by without yet another stupid software patent appearing.  At least people are writing about them.  Amazon (via A9.com) just received a patent for Error processing methods for providing responsive content to a user when a page load error occurs.  Prior art disclosure only goes back to 1999.  This one should be […]

If you aren’t at Defrag but want to follow along at home, there are two solid summaries up on the web.  Jeff Nolan (NewsGator): Live From Defrag! Dan Farber (ZDNet): Defragging identity, disclosures, and vendor relationship management There is also now a ClosedPrivate Facebook group.  Don’t bother joining. When I left for home at 8:30 […]

In his post 30 Thoughts At 30,000 feet, Fred Wilson referred to Alex Iskold as “a freak of nature.”  Fred supports this by saying “He writes code, runs a company, and does amazing blog posts for Read Write Web that are better than most Gartner research reports. I’d ask how he finds the time to do […]

In January, I posted Part 1 of an empirical approach to determining whether software patents are bad (or good). The essay was sent to me by John Funk, founder of Evergreen Innovation Partners. This is part 2 (please read part 1 first if you are interested.)  As a quick reminder – the premise of the […]

I’ve written plenty about patents in the past, including a provocative post titled Abolish Software Patents.  I was having a conversation with John Funk, a partner in Evergreen Innovation Partners, at the end of last year after a catch up lunch.  We got into a serious conversation about the fact that so much of the […]