I can’t promise that this will be my last pre-conference post on Glue, but I can promise that if you’re not planning on attending the conference you’re going to be missing out on a great event. To give you a sense of who is coming (other than our great group of speakers), below is a list of some of the companies and organizations that have people already registered for the event: AdMeld Alsop Louie Partners Avaya Best Buy Citizen Sports Cloud Ave Cloud Security Alliance Denver Art Museum Devver Facebook Filtrbox FreshBooks Gartner Guidewire Group IntelliWare Systems Internet Broadcasting Intuit Inc. Los Alamos Nat’l Lab Research Library Massachusetts Institue of Technology Meritage Funds NASA Ames Network World NeuStar Paypal Salesforce.com…
Archives / April, 2009
Sam Zell at CU!
Reposting from my partner Jason Mendelson’s blog about an upcoming event at CU Boulder featuring Sam Zell. This will be a great event. In the continuing Entrepreneurs Unplugged series, next week Sam Zell will be visiting the university. April 22nd, at noon in the large (Boulder NewTech Meetup) courtroom at the law school. More info here. It is free, but you must register, so keep that in mind. Sam is always an interesting interviewee and speaker and even more so this year with his recent sale of Equity Office Property and sell of the Chicago Cubs.
Hit me with your best pitch (@ glue)
Brad, Eric and I came up with the idea yesterday we’re calling Pitch Brad and Seth at Glue. The concept is pretty simple: if you’re an entrepreneur who is attending Glue (and you should be attending Glue) and you have a great business idea you’re working on and you’d like to get feedback from a few VCs (that would be Brad and me), we’d love to see you. Here’s what you have to do: 1. Register for Glue (use "pitch1" to take $100 off the price) 2. Shoot Eric (or Brad or me) a paragraph describing what you want to pitch and why 3. We’ll pick 6 startups 4. Your pitch will be 5 minutes (in a room with just…
How I keep track of information
I get this question all the time from friends and colleagues. Between portfolio companies, prospective investments, our investment themes, my partners, family and other topics that interest me, there’s a lot of information in my universe that I need to track. And this information ranges from blog posts, to tweets to mainstream press articles. It’s a lot to pay attention to (not to mention all of the individual blogs I follow ….). For a while I was using Google Alerts but 1) there wasn’t a great way to organize them (they just showed up when they showed up – as individual "hits"); 2) they seemed to be missing a ton of information; 3) at least 2/3rds of what came through…
Don’t be caught on the sidelines
On my drive in this morning I was trying to think of reasons for you to NOT come to Glue…and came up completely blank. Glue is a unique chance to engage about some of the most current topics surrounding web technology with a national audience. Come talk with George Reese about securing cloud infrastructure (he has an upcoming O’Rielly book on the subject); hear about OAuth, OpenID and how they play into web architectures and services from Andrew Nash (PayPal) and Danny Kolke (etelos); debate the role of XMPP with Peter Stain-Andre, Jack Moffitt and Seth Fitsimmons (3 XMPP heavyweights); rub shoulders with Mitch Kapor (uber-angel/advisor, founder of Lotus Development Corp); geek out about cloud databases with Alex Iskold (AdaptiveBlue/ReadWriteWeb)…