A humorous view on sales executives.  My apologies to all my friends that are in sales.  I love each and every one of you.  (Thanks for the link Tim.)

Ok – I’m stretching for a clever title for this post.  Several weeks ago I saw two great technical posts from friends.  The first is from Stan James – the

Square 1 Bank has officially opened their office in Boulder with Ken Fugate moving to town full time.  Bob Van Nortwick – one of Square 1’s founders – had done

My next marathon is in a couple of weeks so I’ve been logging plenty of miles lately.  I had a 10 mile run scheduled yesterday but it was -5, pitch

I almost managed to not to write my annual “please update the copyright on your website” post.  Matt Blumberg even called me out for being off my game this year.

Oracle buys BEA Systems for $8.5 billion. Sun Microsoft Systems buys MySQL for about $1.0 billion. Gregory Reyes – Brocade’s ex-CEO – gets 21 months in jail for backdating stock

Another big software company – BEA – is being consumed by Oracle today.  While some people will say this goes back three months to the first offer Oracle made for

My friend Dave sent me a hysterical Onion article titled Failure Now An Option.  I hate the phrase "failure is not an option" – of course it is.  Some choice

We recently made another Foundry Group investment in the Zynga Game Network.  Brad Stone wrote a great article about Zynga in the NYTimes about it titled More Than Games, a

I know – blasphemy in Boulder to say anything negative about CROX.  However, I’m just channeling Howard Lindzon, the founder of WallStrip and stock trader extraordinarre.  I don&