Matt Blumberg – the CEO of Return Path – has a great post up on “Shifting Gears.” I get to work with some awesome entrepreneurs – Matt is one of

Nerd week continues (and my pile of technology crap on the floor slowly diminishes). At the Microsoft VC Summit last month, our parting gift (Microsoft has always given out nice

I’m a marginal conductor, but a pretty good fundraiser for the Boulder Philharmonic. Fortunately Gregory Walker – the Boulder Phil’s concertmaster (the first violin for those o

Bill Gates has a bi-annual “think week.” I have an unpredictably scheduled “nerd week” that occurs whenever I no longer can walk into my office at home because boxes of [

Adam Bosworth once again has an extremely useful post – this time on his thoughts about why Ajax is having an impact these days (compared to 1997 when he was

Yesterday I posted a chart showing the large cap tech buyers over the past two years. Sun was on the list – but near the bottom (three deals). This morning,

Amy and I have a large collection of contemporary art (if you’ve ever been to my office, our house, Mobius’s California office, or The Nature Conservancy building in Boulder, you&rsqu

If you are running a VC-backed IT software or hardware company, it’s much more likely that the success event for your company will be an acquisition rather than an IPO.

I’ve been a long time fan and supporter of the work of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. In the mid 1990’s, I was an “entrepreneur-in-residence” there,

I spent a day in Washington DC last week on my continued mission to evangelize for the National Center for Women & Information Technologies. We had an evening event that