As we shift into full gear for the 2006 election cycle, I’ve teamed up with TiE-Rockies, VisiTechPR, Jack Tankersley (Meritage Funds), the Bill Ritter (Colorado Democrat Governor Candidate) campaign, and the Bob Beauprez (Colorado Republican Governor Candidate) campaign to put on a Technology Community Forum. As a state, Colorado has the highest number of technology workers per capita. As a result, the health of the Colorado technology industry is an important issue to consider in the 2006 election for Governor. I believe that it’s important to explore where each candidate stands and what their thoughts and plans are for our state government’s involvement in the high tech community.

Tom Evslin has a super post up today titled Daily Key to Success. In it, he talks about his obsession with all sorts of daily business metrics as one of his keys to success as an entrepreneur. I completely agree and share his obsession with daily metrics of all kinds, going back to my very first company where we had a program called FT-BIL that I used to see how much we billed out clients each day – by consultant. 

Amy and I are sushi lovers. Chris sent us an article from BestLife titled Too Sexy for Wasabi about Masa Restaurant (in the Time Warner Center in New York City) and the amazing experience of eating a meal prepared by Chef Masa Takayama*.* Wow.

FeedBurner is beta testing a new set of functionality – called “Networks” that is planned for a September launch. I’m coordinating one of the beta Networks – the Venture Capital Network. A FeedBurner Network is a collection of blogs that fit within a particular topic. The goal is to create high quality collections of similar types of publishers. For example, if you are interested in reading Venture Capital bloggers, you currently have to manually poke around to find them. Some bloggers have taken it upon themselves to compile a list of Venture Capital bloggers (65 – where did all those come from?) and you can use Technorati to find Blogs about Venture Capital. But – none of these approaches is particularly organized, scales, or is really manageable.

Matt McCall – my fellow board member / investor at FeedBurner – has a helpful post up titled Bootcamp: Show Me the Money. Matt does a nice job of describing the “Yes, But” type of startup, how VCs typically react, and offers some suggestions.

I’ve been in blog migration hell the past few days. Simple goal / painful execution. My blog runs on Movable Type 3.2 on a dedicated server (that happens to be six years old) located in our office. I’m about to launch a new blog and we decided to upgrade everything to Movable Type 3.3, migrate to a new server, go from flat files to MySQL, switch from static to dynamic page rendering, and set it up so we could host multiple blogs on the same server. 

A few weeks ago Witold Rybczynski panned the new extension to the Denver Art Museum (the Hamilton Building) along with two other contemporary buildings in the neighborhood. I panned Rybczynski’s review two weeks ago and yesterday David Harsanyi of the Denver Post spoke up and criticized Rybcynski’s criticism. Boys and girls – I implore you to visit this building when you swing through Denver – it is going to be amazing.

Nisan Gabbay – an analyst at Sierra Ventures – has started a neat new blog called Startup Review. Unlike so many other VC bloggers that pontificate on generic issues around entrepreneurship and venture capital (egads – is that a mirror I see – Amy – please put that down) Nisan is taking a very different approach. In his words: Startup Review will be a blog that profiles successful Internet start-ups in a case study format. The case studies will be fairly detailed, analyzing the key factors that made the companies successful, with an emphasis on strategy and product decisions. Each case study will also have sections discussing launch strategy, exit analysis, and links to other good analysis on the company.

In Europe, today is 2/8/6, tomorrow is 3/8/6, Friday is 4/8/6, and Saturday is Pentium. Technorati Tags: numbers, numerology