This post should be sung to the tune of The World Is A Vampire by the Smashing Pumpkins “the world is a vampire, sent to drain secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames and what do i get, for my pain betrayed desires, and a piece of the game even though i know-i suppose i’ll […]

I hate board meetings. I probably have 100 per year which means I’ve gone to well over 1,500 of the past 15 years (I’m sure the number is much higher). The vast majority are excruciatingly inefficient – three to four hours that could be handled in 45 minutes. And even then, it’s unclear that the […]

On Wednesday and Thursday I spent two awesome days with my long time friend Martin Babinec (the founder of Trinet), his partner at Upstate Venture Connect – Nasir Ali – and about 1000 members of the Upstate New York entrepreneurial community. Martin and I first met around 1991 when we were both building our first […]

I say “no” all the time.  I could start keeping track of the number of times I do it a day, but I’d guess it’s a minimum of 10 and occasionally over 50 times a day.  When I type that, my first reaction is “no way, there’s no possible way I say no more than […]

Last week, while on vacation, Fred Wilson wrote a post titled Working on Vacation.  It began as follows: The title of this post sounds like an oxymoron. But it is a fact of life for me and probably many of the people who read this blog. The idea of a ‘get away from it all’ […]

Ok – enough of that announcement stuff on a Sunday morning (although I can’t resist inviting you again to the CSIA DEMOgala 2007 event.)  I regularly get emails that ask questions like “I wanted to ask if you ever considered writing a post on your blog about your method of keeping your priorities organized, deciding […]

I do a lot of short phone calls and meetings.  I try to organize them around “random days” where I spend the majority of the day meeting and talking to people where I don’t have a specific agenda.  Often – they have a specific agenda (which is good).  However, many have no idea how to […]

If you are interested in the story of how things play with Joe Nacchio’s criminal insider trading indictment I recommend you subscribe to the New West Networks Boulder feed as Richard Martin is writing a series titled The Nacchio File.  Nacchio is at the top of the Qwest meltdown pyramid and – among the expected […]

Fred Wilson has a great weekly series called VC Cliche of the Week – this week’s post is on meeting the numbers.  It’s worth a slow and thoughtful read. I have one constructive thought to add.  I’ve been involved in over 100 startups at this point and have seen many more.  I can only remember […]