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I do not want to tangle with an army of 10,000 of these.  Especially ones that have lots of sharp pokey electrocution things built in to their foreheads.I wonder what my golden retriever would think of these dudes.  Now, what would have really been sweet is if I had one of these when I was [...]

Last week, Microsoft sued Salesforce.com claiming infringement of 9 software patents. This comes shortly after Nokia sued Apple who sued Nokia over software patents, and after Apple sued HTC who sued Apple over software patents.As an example of the ridiculous nature of software patents, Microsoft's claims cover user interface features, including a "system and method [...]

I just finished up spending the past two days at Google I/O. On one of the panels I participated in yesterday (VCs Who Code), the endless discussion about open (e.g. Google) vs. closed (e.g. Apple) came up with Dave McClure stating "Open is for losers."  We had a short but spirited debate about a topic [...]

Over the weekend, Mark Suster wrote a great post titled How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings.  Mark continues to just tear it up with great advice for entrepreneurs.  However, he left out one thing from the post - which is one of my favorite pieces of advice for entrepreneurs.Give your venture capitalists [...]

A few years ago, several friends started a company called Evergreen IP to help inventors commercialize their consumer innovations.  I participated in the financing as an angel investor (it was during the period of time between funds where I was once again making angel investments) and since then they have commercialized several products and spun [...]

Following is an outstanding 30 minute presentation by Jesse Schell at DICE 2010 explaining how our life is just one big game.  PS3 Games - E3 2010 - Guitar Hero 5Points everywhere, followed by an optimistic call to use this to make us better.

Andrew does a nice interview.  We covered plenty of ground, including failure, when to really call it quits, the concept that "life is a fatal disease", global vs. local failure, working on things that matter, what I think "fail fast" actually means, how to evolve your business (using Return Path and NewsGator as the examples), [...]