We invested in NewsGator in June and Greg Reinacker and crew have been hard at work building out the next generation of NewsGator for Outlook and NewsGator Online Services (NGOS).

Newmerix announced today that it had raised $7m in a new financing. Siemens Venture Capital was the new lead investor, joining us and IDG Ventures. We provided Newmerix’s seed financing

Seth Godin’s ChangeThis project has officially launched. ChangeThis – in their words “is trying to create a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like

As a hardcore NewsGator user (and investor), I’ve been a heavy user of several of the NewsGator plug-ins. As the number of feeds I monitor has increased, I have found

Last week, I was asked to write up my “Top 10 bootstrapping actions” for a book on bootstrapping that should be coming out later this year. Bootstrapping must be in

Jeff Nolan’s post Blogs as Early Warning Systems inspired me to try a similar approach with a recent disappointing experience that I had at the Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans. I

ClickZ – one of the Jupitermedia companies – just chose Return Path as the Best Deliverabiity Product or Service of the year. I wrote about Return Path’s acquistion of NetCreations [

Shortly after I sold my first company, I got a call from Len Fassler – my new boss (the co-chairman of the company) – who asked, “Can you start sending

Amy and I went to our little local movie theater in Homer tonight. The two movies showing are Farentheit 9/11 and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. We saw Farenheit

I’ve been having a good summer running in Alaska gearing up for my next marathon. I was considering doing the Salt Lake Marathon in mid-July but I didn’t manage to