Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures has a great post up on why he prefers to be the lead investor in the companies he invests in.

Following are some board meeting rules that were recently presented to me and my fellow board members by a CEO at one of his first board meetings at a newly funded early stage company. I thought they were brilliant. Feel free to pass them out at your next board meeting. Be supportive of the company: Tell us the things we do right and things we do wrong. We are figuring this out as we go. “No comment” is hard to interpret and our imaginations will run wild.

Scott Converse (CEO of ClickCaster) has post summarizing his first board meeting. Todd Vernon (CEO of Lijit) does also (ok – his second board meeting.) Finally – Jeff Bussgang of IDG Ventures has a great post summarizing the infamous Venture Capital Monday Morning Partner’s Meeting.

Who said lawyers aren’t creative? Come on – it was at least one of you out there. Last night at the Kidstek 6th Annual Tech Leader’s Dinner, each of the 13 tables had to do a “skit” that had something to do with kids, technology, and marine stuff (since the event was at the Denver Aquarium.) My friends from Cooley Godward Kronish sponsored a table and Michael Stack and Sean Arend presented the poem “Pop Ups and Spam” read to the tempo of Theodor Geisel’s “Green Eggs and Ham.”)

If you haven’t tried Judy’s Book in a while (or ever), take another look. The “morph” is in progress to the place for smart shoppers.

Scott Converse – the CEO of ClickCaster – has a long and very personal post about his experience in the run up to his first board meeting. I’m sure he’ll have a follow up post after the meeting today. If you are a first time entrepreneur who has just raised money, or are just starting to have board meetings, Scott’s perspective will be additive to your world view.

While I like TLAs, I much prefer short descriptive words. I’ve been living in the world of “sync” for a long time, dating back to when – as an early Lotus Notes user – I discovered the joy of “replication.” While Amy and I never had any replicants running around our house, I have always been infatuated with the notion of one copy of my data being available to me anywhere I happen to me with it always automagically being kept in “sync.” 

Whew – I just finished getting my daily feed dose from FeedDemon. I have a daily routine for when I’m home – get up at 5am, try not to wake Amy up (I failed today), make a cup of coffee, get a bowl of fruit, go downstairs, feed the dogs, sit down at my computer, fire up Outlook, Firefox, and FeedDemon, Open-in-tabs my “News” folder in Firefox, and then read for an hour (or so). While I’m at it I usually write a few blogs. By 6:30 I’m done for the day with this stuff – I shut down FeedDemon (and don’t open it up until the next day), and then go get ready for a run.

Dan Bricklin was recently an expert witness in the Hyperion vs. Outlooksoft case that was tried in the US District Court in Marshall, TX. Outlooksoft (the defendant) won – and Dan’s testimony was critical to invalidating the Hyperion patent. Dan has two excellent essays up about this – his experience in the case and his general thoughts on Patent Litigation circa 2006. Dan is a remarkably clear thinker and excellent writer (as well as general software wizard and hugely nice guy) – if you are interested in software patents, these two essays are a must read.