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Do you remember the "Let's Build a Filter" scene from Apollo 13? It remains - at least in my mind - one of the most heroic engineering scenes in the movies. The one minute segment with the meat of the scene follows:Several times over the past week the BP Gulf Crisis has come up in [...]

It is so nice to be back in Boulder after my 10 hours trip home from New York yesterday. I really want a personal portable teleportation machine.I'm about to head out for a run but thought I'd toss up a few fun posts and videos that I saw when scanning through my email and news [...]

I'm a week into using a Mac as my primary computer and loving it. Every day I discover at least one little thing that makes me go "why the fuck didn't my PC ever do that."Today's was the time zone thing. For two decades I've been bedeviled by time zones whenever I travel. For a [...]

Jason and I were at an Oblong board meeting last week and spent the entire day at the company. It's grown a lot over the past few months and it was fun to spend time with a number of folks we hadn't met before. The first Oblong baby was born while we were [...]

In the mid 1990's I used an email client that did a pretty good job of "threading conversations." The UI was kind of crummy, but it did some interesting things. It was called Lotus Notes. I also invested in a company called NetGenesis that made the first threaded web discussion software based on a [...]

Another TechStars company has been acquired. Well - part of it has been acquired. Today it was announced that eBay has acquired the RedLaser product from Occipital. The Occipital guys tell the story in their post titled Arrival at the Launchpad.Occipital's founders - Jeff and Vikas - are the epitome of bootstrap entrepreneurs. Every TechStars [...]

Recently, TechStars began expanding outside the United States through its new TechStars Global Affiliate program. From experience, we know that investing internationally from the United States is difficult. However, the demand from entrepreneurs throughout the world for a TechStars-like program has been substantial. So, TechStars opted for an affiliate model which gives the local partner the [...]

We recently invested in a Seattle company called BigDoor Media. The founder/CEO Keith Smith wrote a wonderful love story about the deal which was picked up by the WSJ VC Dispatch in a post titled A Summer Romance Between Founder And Venture Capitalist. Yes, I've fallen in love (in a very non-sexual way) with Keith, his [...]

My post yesterday titled Rethinking The Laptop resulted in three very specific pieces of feedback followed by me taking one specific action. The feedback was:Dump OutlookGet a solid state driveGet a MacAfter mulling things around for 24 hours, I decided to once again try my annual switch to the Mac. Fortunately, I have a very [...]

This morning, as I was waiting for my laptop to grind through its startup process I started wondering why I had a laptop. I travel a lot and had it with me in San Francisco and Los Angeles this week, but hardly used it. And, when I did, I was frustrated with how [...]

On the eve of re: Bilski, the anxiously awaited Supreme Court decision on business method patents (with potential implications for software patents), I decided to collaborate with the End Software Patents coalition and send out 200 copies of the short movie they recently produced called Patent Absurdity about why software should not be able to [...]

The TechStars Boston 2010 program finished up the other day.  I was at investor day and it was awesome to see how far the ten companies came over the last 90 days, especially since I was there on the first day of the program and really had a baseline perspective.If you follow my twitter feed, [...]

I love summertime.  Amy and I spent Memorial Day weekend in Manhattan.  We stayed in Soho, hung out with some friends, ate a lot, and just wandered around.  Oh - and I slept 17 hours yesterday once again demonstrating that I have amazing sleeping powers.  I needed it after two full days at the Glue [...]