I love it when companies I’m an investor in use an acquisition strategy.  My good friend and long time co-investor Fred Wilson calls it a "venture rollup."  It’s very d

When people find out that I’ve spent a lot of time in Alaska, they often ask me what it’s like.  After struggling to describe it in a simple way that

A company I have a small investment in has been struggling to get the most recent version of their software shipped.  A few weeks ago I ran into the CEO

I have a handful of chronic grammar problems.  I received the following email yesterday: You seem like an intelligent guy.  But you insist on referring to your friends as, "that."&

While I’m usually amused by the copyright gaffes I see, I laughed out loud when I saw that Google News was still Copyright 2007 (thanks to dschwartz for the tip.)

In his post titled Feed Archaeology Charlie Wood writes about the little known NewsGator Archive Service.  NewsGator has archived all the RSS feeds that its users have subscribed to since it

If you know me, you know that I have a weird obsession with bathrooms.  It goes back a long time and definitely has some strange psychologic underpinnings that I’m sure

Great advice from Julie Alexandria on WallStrip to all the big thinkers in Davos who are Scornful of US Policies and worried about the impact of the fall of the

Andrew Hyde – the wonderful, fun, and friendly founder of StartupWeekend – wrote a great post recently On Burning Out.  He’s back – after taking a long break – which

The TechStars 2008 Applications are now open.  Last year we had 302 applications and accepted 10 companies.  8 of the 10 companies are now either financed or profitable and several