We had an NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) board meeting yesterday in advance of two days of NCWIT alliance meetings.  I’m delighted with the progress this organization has made in the past three years.  We held the meeting for the first time at the new CU Boulder ATLAS building.  Bobby Schnabel – a co-founder […]

On Saturday, I called a director at a company I’m on the board of to get a reality check on something that is going on.  Ten minutes on the phone solved three things: (1) I was able to road test my idea with someone I respect and (2) I incorporated his feedback into my idea, […]

A friend of mine and active angel investor asked me the following question recently:  “I thinking of getting involved in a ‘base hit’ type company, but one that feels like I could really help.  It probably won’t be a huge win, but then again I feel confident it will at least work and be viable. […]

In the life of most companies with an active board of directors, it occasionally becomes necessary to recruit a new director. In the case of VC backed companies, a new director candidate is often the suggestion of one of the investors. In these cases, the suggestions are often the result of the VC in question […]

I just gone done with my quarterly week off the grid.  Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays – Amy and I spent it chilling out in Keystone.  I had a little trouble disconnecting – finally shutting off all of my computers on Wednesday morning.  Even though lots of folks took the long weekend off, […]

I was looking forward to getting up at 3:30am this morning and flying to Chicago for the FeedBurner board meeting.  At 1am I woke up with the feeling that a bug had crawled into my ear and was gnawing on my eardrum.  I suffered through the next few hours but at 3:30am decided I was […]

I was at a board meeting on Friday for a company that is doing great and growing quickly.  This will be their second year of revenue and – for a software company – it’s far ahead of its peers for being in its second year of having products in the market.  I’m really impressed with […]

Whew – I just finished getting my daily feed dose from FeedDemon.  I have a daily routine for when I’m home – get up at 5am, try not to wake Amy up (I failed today), make a cup of coffee, get a bowl of fruit, go downstairs, feed the dogs, sit down at my computer, fire […]

I had a Rally Software board meeting – this has been a fun company to be involved in from raw startup through its current aggressive growth.  When we initially funded Rally – which is the market leader in Agile lifecycle management products, many people said “what’s Agile?”  That question isn’t being asked much anymore – […]