I got the following email from someone a few minutes ago. I’ve been a reader of your blog for some time now, but will follow it no longer. Even though

Barry Eisler is one of my favorite mental floss writers. Barry writes thrillers about a bad-ass named John Rain. Rain is half-Japanese, half American assassin who specializes in making his

I spoke on a panel last week at the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program titled “Re-examining The Patent System.” My panel was the last one and came after a few hours

Jason sent me a quote that was on the first slide of a 409A presentation from one of the major law firms we work with. “409A is the tax law

As my Microsoft Web Only diet continues, I found myself using Live.com Image Search today to put together a presentation. I hate text heavy Powerpoint presentations so I try to

The rumors about someone buying JBoss have been bouncing around for weeks. As I was working on a presentation titled Commercializing Open Source for Eric von Hippel’s Democratizing Innovat

Josh Kopelman has a thoughtful post on why he prefers preferred equity instead of convertible debt in seed-stage investments. I agree with everything he says – definitely worth reading if

After all the depressing shit that I read in the New York Times today, I felt compelled to buy a new clock. These were on sale in the Boulder Bookstore

I’m running the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 17th. I’m much too slow a runner to qualify, so my friend Nick Grouf and his fiance Shana Eddy gave me a

Sometimes it’s best not to read the newspaper first thing in the morning. Randall Stross has an excellent and disturbing article in today’s New York Times titled “Looking at th