Yippee – the criticism of the software patent stupidity is starting to heat up and some really smart people are making both useful arguments about the issues and interesting proposals

Allen Stern has a great interview up with Jon Fox, the co-founder of Intense Debate.  Jon and Intense Debate were part of the first year’s crop of companies from TechStars

I have seen my lifetime supply of slides like the following: My good friend Bruce Wyman – the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum – has a thoughtful

Alex Muse has a long, detailed post up about How [He] lost $20,000,000+ in 18 months.  It’s the story of his experience with LayerOne – the first version and the

Tim O’Reilly tweeted a link to an article titled How To Concentrate which was originally published in 1930.  It is excellent and worth reading slowly (presumably while you are concentrating

And post #2 is up (I guess post #1 went up yesterday and I missed it since I only read feeds in the morning.)  Post #2 is titled Gross and

Fred Wilson has an excellent post up today titled Venture Fund Economics.  It appears to be the first of several posts he’s planning to write on this topic. "When I

People tell me when I get bored of marathons maybe I’ll start doing ultras – as in 100 mile races.  Great inspiration.  (Thanks Dave / Jeff).

As Amy and run around like silly people packing up to head back to Boulder tonight, I stumbled upon two fantastic posts on the web.  Consider this your daily reading

The NY Times has a great short article up titled The I.B.M. Acquisition Machine: A Seller’s Perspective.  It has several quotes from Pierre Haren, the co-founder of CEO of Ilog