There’s been a lot of talk about Oracle being the major consolidator of mature software companies, but IBM continues to march forward aggressively. They bought FileNet today for $1.6

A few weeks ago I wrote about how pleasantly surprised I was by the thanks I got from John Minnihan of Freepository for a little help that I had given

Terry Gold – CEO of Gold Systems and a long time friend – has a great story about his experience yesterday being up on stage with Microsoft at the SpeechTEK

As the reality of agreeing to run a marathon at the North Pole settled in today, I was bombarded by intros from Tom Heinrichs to great cold weather / snow

Yesterday Brocade announced that it was acquiring McData for $713 million. McData is another of the long time Colorado storage technology companies – it’s now joining its friend Stor

Brian Kellner, my victim VP Product Management at NewsGator, writes a great timeline of “his view” of Product Focused Venture Capital. Look for the TypePad widget soon. NewsGator rel

On April 7, 2007 I’m going to run the North Pole Marathon. I’ve increased my marathon in every state goal to include the Marathon Grand Slam Club which is a marathon

Bill Venema sent me a copy of his book The Strategic Guide to Selling Your Software Company. If you are a founder of CEO of a software company and you’ve sold

I love to invest in companies where I can be actively involved as a user of their products. One of the benefits of actively blogging over the past two years

Amy grew up in Anchor Point, Alaska until she was 8 years old. We still own the land and make an annual pilgrimage when we are out here. Following is