I read Matt Blumberg’s post on Silly, Silly Patent Nonsense this morning. It concerns a bulk email patent that was issued in 2003 that is being used to sue InfoUSA

One of my favorite CTOs – Tim Wolters of Collective Intellect – is on Wallstrip today chatting with Lindsey. While I’d much rather there was less of Tim and

A blog reader (Sam from – well – somewhere) pointed out a critically important new set of accounting principles called SAAP that are a replacement for GAAP and are described

There are a bunch of verbal tics that people use that drive me crazy. “Honestly” and “to tell you the truth” are the two that I dislike the most. Another

Some of the companies I invest in are innovation factories – it feels to me like something interesting comes out of them at least once a week (and sometimes daily.)

Passion for ideas for new companies come from lots of different places. I’ve learned to pay attention to them and see where they lead. Sometimes they lead somewhere; often they

Seeking Alpha has started a new interview series on their site. Dick Costolo – the CEO of FeedBurner – has an excellent one up. Seeking Alpha readers have a window

I picked up the following Dr. Seuss quote on a piece of paper laying around in the conference room I was in earlier today. You have brains in your head.You

One of my most popular blog series ever was on Term Sheets. I’ve been pondering another series for a while and a reader inspired me this morning to start one on

Bill Burnham has an excellent rant up on GAAP accounting titled Is It Just Me or is GAAP Completely Broken? In case you don’t know, GAAP stands for “Generally Accepted Acco