When I was a doctoral student at MIT, my advisor was Eric von Hippel.  I’ve had my fair share of mentors in my 42 years – Eric has been one

Lijit released another version of their blog stats.  With each release, the chocolaty goodness of Lijit gets tastier.  I’ve now got a fancy summary page, real time geolocation from Quo

Eh – shitty metaphor.  But Bill nails it in his Dear Microsoft: Please Buy Plaxo post.  I don’t have a nickel in Plaxo, but this has been an obvious fit for

For all you 24 fans out there, my now excruciatingly long time friend and third Feld Technologies employee Shawn Broderick (aka Mr. Doody) has a brilliant photo comparison up on

Today the news started emerging that Office 2003 SP3 no longer supports older Microsoft Office file formats.  When I first read this, I figured it only referred to really obscure

As SaaS companies start to mature and go public (there were several in 2007 and a flood expected in 2008 and 2009) there is starting to be some interesting discussion

Following on the "sales" theme I received the following question yesterday from a regular reader. Are you aware of any blogs that regularly deal with issues that arise when startups

You are an experienced software sales person.  You just drained your 2007 sales pipeline and are frustrated with the lack of growth of your existing company.  You want to join

I heard a great line recently.  Michael Price – one of the senior guys at Evercore and a long time friend (we were on the PeoplePC board together) was interviewed.

My last book of 2007 was Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, one of the CIA books recommended in the comments of my post History of the CIA.