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Calling All PPC Marketing Studs
My partner Seth wrote a short post earlier today about Trada titled Are you a PPC expert? Read on… We funded Trada last year and Seth and I have an ongoing (and often entertaining) debate…
Community Hours – Trying Something New for Random Meetings
I’ve been a long time practitioner of having “random meetings” where I meet with whomever wants to get together with me. Some amazing things have come out of this over the years, including my…
Basic Twitter Advice to Companies: Shorten Your Tweets
I retweet a lot of stuff – hopefully it’s useful to the folks that follow my twitter stream. I try to keep the retweets relevant – either useful business stuff, funny things my friends said, or…
Ancient MS-DOS Tricks
I had a dream last night. In it, I was sitting in front of an old PC. I typed:
c:
cd\
copy con config.sys
files=255
buffers=32
<ctrl-z>
I can’t remember much more of the dream. But – I…
Thoughtful Analysis on the Dynamics of the VC Industry
I tend to stay out of the “VC is dead, long live the VC Industry” discussion but I couldn’t avoid Bill Gurley’s fantastic post titled What Is Really Happening To The Venture Capital Industry? …
Mt. Democrat, Mt. Cameron and Mt. Lincoln
Dave Jilk, my first business partner (Feld Technologies) and I have settled into a nice annual tradition of climbing a 14er each August. This year we climbed three in one day – Mt. Democrat, …
The Challenge of The Ideal First Round Term Sheet
Suddenly the blogosphere is talking about the need for a standardized first round term sheet. The latest iteration of this seems to have blossomed when TheFunded Founder Institute released a…
An Angel Investor Group Move That Makes Me Vomit
I’ve personally made over 75 angel investments during two periods of time – 1994 – 1997 and 2006 – 2007. The first was the period of time after I had sold my first company but before I co-founded…
Three Entrepreneurial Books To Read Before You Turn 21
I regularly get asked some variant of “what books would you recommend to an entrepreneur.” I typically send a quick email answer along with a link to the list of all the books I’ve read in the…
Security in the Cloud
In January, I made a seed investment in a company called Standing Cloud. My premise was that as “cloud computing” proliferated, it’d be a total mess for the typical application developer and…