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

When I was at Microsoft last week, I once again noticed interesting art in the lobby of the buildings I was in. I’ve always liked the art at Microsoft and

I got an email from a blog reader that said “there’s one attribute ‘missing’ from your list of needed characteristics for an entrepreneur – being a good salesman.”&

I’ve encouraged all of my portfolio companies that have an online service to supply both REST and SOAP API’s to their web services. This week, both Rally Software and NewsGator

In my Microsoft-only web diet, I’ve been pleasantly enjoying Microsoft Search. While some of the results are a little wacky (e.g. I was searching for the Microsoft Empower program yesterda