One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons is “On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog.” Nick Bradbury – the creator of FeedDemon (one of the NewsGator products) is having

As I was writing my previous post about The Constipation of Scale I got an email from a co-investor talking about a CEO / CTO conflict. It had an interesting phrase

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