Union Square Ventures just announced their new $156m fund – Union Square Ventures 2008.  My relationship with USV goes back to the mid-1990’s – well before USV was created.  I vividly remember the first time I met Fred at Seth Godin’s Yoyodyne office somewhere near Waltham, MA.  We hit it off immediately and I ended […]

My friend Bruce Wyman – who is the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum – turned me on to Gordon Ramsay‘s Kitchen Nightmares.  Early this morning I discovered that Micah Baldwin – who runs Business Development for Lijit – is also a huge fan.  Micah has a great post up for all entrepreneurs […]

I’ve often said in the past that I’m not a conference guy so I recognize the irony of me helping organize a conference.  Eric Norlin did all the work and as we head into the home stretch of day one of Defrag, I’m blown away.  The quality of the attendees is stunning and the panels […]

On the way up the elevator this morning to the Defrag conference, Alex Iskold of Adaptive Blue and I were talking about Open Social.  Or rather – we were whining about it.  I anticipated that a lot of the conversation at Defray would be about the enterprise (and I was correct) – Alex suggested that […]

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 […]

Alex Iskold, the founder and creator of Adaptive Blue, has a long and helpful post up titled Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach.  I have a small investment in Adaptive Blue (Union Square Ventures is the lead investor), love what Alex is up to, and relish anything that comes out of his brain. One […]

Alex Iskold – the giant brain behind AdaptiveBlue – has a great post up today titled How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It).  While I’m sure no one has ever noticed how slow my blog (or Fred Wilson’s) loads (cough, cough, choke, choke – that would be sarcasm), there’s […]

You are going to see SmartLinks start appearing on my site.  They are from AdaptiveBlue and are evolving rapidly into a really cool way to enhance the value of a link.  For more on what a SmartLink is, check out the post from Alex Iskold titled BlueBlog » SmartLinks Primer: The Idea and the Technology. […]

There are two opposite approaches in the world that most software companies take when talking about future products.  1. Say nothing until the day of the release and 2. Talk regularly about your roadmap.  There used to be a third – “announcing a product but then not shipping it for a while” (anyone remember vaporware?) […]