Venture Chronicles

The WSJ wrongly takes aim at Mike Arrington on the topic of women in tech. I don’t agree with him that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs (but I’m married to one so I’m biased) however I do agree that the WSJ is flat out wrong to target TechCrunch for an issue that is [...]

I saw these changes yesterday and my immediate reaction was “wow, gcal is finally useful in a group context… getting much closer to Exchange”. The UI and functional changes make a huge difference, but I’m starting to like Tungle for group scheduling. In the next day or so, you’ll start to see some changes to [...]

Worst quarterly performance to date… technology plays a minor role, the economy appears to be the main drag on cable tv subscriptions. Maybe it’s time for Comcast et. al. to do something different and actually lower prices… btw, this certainly doesn’t reflect positively on the high carriage fees that cable tv operators have been agreeing [...]

Seth Levine recently wrote a great post on pricing topics for software as a service companies; I agree with what he writes and can relate given a project I have been immersed with that goes to this very topic. Web startups reflexively over complicate their pricing strategy and/or undervalue what they are offering by making [...]

It is estimated that there is as much as $2 trillion in cash on the balance sheets of public companies in the U.S. alone. The conventional wisdom of Keynesians has been that the unprecedented level of spending that the Federal government has undertaken would prime the economic pump which would create demand that would spur [...]

A few days ago I was walking down an otherwise uninteresting street and I see this sign soliciting investment. Nothing out of the ordinary but the “don’t ask me…” warning was a little odd, as well as the NDA before the person will tell you anything about it… but no, the most interesting aspect of [...]

There is so much to like in this well written rebuttal to the much talked about Wired cover piece titled “The Web is Dead” (maybe they should have titled it “Wired is Relevant Again!”) that I will leave you with the opening graph and trust you to click the link and read it in entirety. [...]

I think we can all related to at least a few of these: UNIVERSAL LAWS 1. Law of Mechanical Repair – After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you’ll have to pee. 2. Law of Gravity – Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the [...]

McKinsey Quarterly published a really insightful list of tech-enabled business trends that are shaping business today. The first one maps to something I have been spending a lot of time in lately, companies using communities to drive support costs down while improving the experience of support, build better products, and capture the marketing potential that [...]

I just read Paul Graham’s excellent post on what happened to Yahoo and this one paragraph jumped out at me: I didn’t realize the answer till later, after I went to work at Yahoo. It was neither of my guesses. The reason Yahoo didn’t care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic [...]