I’m sitting in my hotel room in Palo Alto after 20 hours of travel from Hampshire, England.  Amy and I took our Q3 vacation in the English countryside at the

As I was hiking up Quandary Peak on Saturday, I regularly looked at my Garmin 305.  I had four data fields displaying – distance, total time, heart rate, and lap

Recently, I’ve found myself in several situations where I realized the complexity of each one had spun out of control.  Rather than be able to make a rational assessment of

Santo Politi has a great post up today titled Election 2008 and Price of Crude.  We were in a meeting together today and he mentioned it (but didn’t mention the

A CEO friend (who also is an excellent salesman) sent me a fun post titled Sales 101 with the comment "here’s one that will make you laugh in a sad but

When I was a kid, one of my mom’s favorite lines was "go outside and play."  I spent a lot of time outside.  As an adult, I spent a lot

We’ve just wrapped up our second year of doing TechStars and I’m really excited about some of the companies that have come out of the program this year.  We held

Ever since I left home for college in 25 years ago, I periodically get a call from my father that goes something like "Hi Brad, it’s Dad.  I’m having trouble

Now that I’m 42 years old, I’ve been around the computer industry long enough to understand that it runs in cycles.  I don’t know how long the cycles are going

One of last year’s TechStars companies – Filtrbox – is hiring.  They are looking for a Java + LAMP developer and a Flash/Flex/RIA developer.  If you fit the bill and