Earlier this week Return Path announced that it has acquired Netcreations. As a result of this merger, Return Path now has over 1,500 U.S. marketers as clients, 500 top web

I’m up in Alaska and have been sucking down books. Following are five flyby reviews for those of you with different tastes. Chirunning – Good book on combining T’ai Chi

My wife Amy sent me the following Voltaire quote (via A Word A Day). It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers

Rally Software – which we funded with Boulder Ventures in October 2003 – just shipped their first product. Nine months from startup funding to v1 – not bad! Rally provides

NewsGator announced our investment last week. I received a number of nice notes from folks in the RSS world. I also received a bunch of questions about why we invested,

I’ve looked at thousands (tens of thousands?) presentations pitching new businesses since the mid 1990’s. The vast majority of them suck. Unfortunately, it’s not Powerpoint’s f

Every now and then, a VC runs across an entrepreneur that has enormous vision, the mental agility to tune his idea to the market reality, and the chutzpah to pull

Amy finished The Kite Runner the other day and immediately called me on my cell phone and said “I just read the best first novel that I’ve read so far

When Raj Bhargava came up with the idea for Quova in 1999, one of his initial examples was that law enforcement would eventually focus on the Internet as a way

I predict that the upcoming national election activity will put blogging on the map as a broad populist activity. The Associated Press just ran an article titled Democrat Convention Credentials