Every successful startup goes through it. I got a note from a friend yesterday in response to an email I sent him about one of his startups where I said

There are three long weekends each year that I love – Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving. My entire world disconnects for each of them and they are great transitions

Stan James just wrote a post titled Explore the world of blogs around you which describes the new Lijit Blog Explore feature. I’ve been calling this feature “bubbles” and if [&

One of the great things about blogs is that it makes it easy for anyone (that has a blog) to express things – both good and bad. While mainstream media

A little over a year ago Amy and I had a discussion about how we could directly contribute to rebuilding New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We have

I love to invest in companies that are developing broad horizontal technologies. Many of them – such as NewsGator, FeedBurner, and Rally – can be applied to many

In 1991, a group of ten people (including me and Amy) gathered at a resort in Stowe, VT to have a Chautauqua to discuss the future. We had a magnificent weekend

When I read David Halberstam’s Summer of ‘49 recently, I thought of my dad many times. We talked about it one day and he told me about his brilliant Summer

The WSJ has an excellent article titled The Secrets of Serial Success. The “serial entrepreneur” is a mysterious beast and entrepreneurship sociologists have been poking and prodding

After waking up from a nap dreaming about Social Graphs (ok – not really) I realized I’d never tried to integrate my Outlook contacts into “the other stuff I use