Linking around
A few things that might be of interest. Foundry announced our latest investment – Pie Digital. Pie has created an “IT department in a box”. Brad jokes that he’ll no longer have to provide tech support for his parents. My dad is literally a rocket scientist, so I can’t exactly make that claim, but like Jason (see his post here), I’m looking forward to their product rolling out. You can read the Foundry post here. …
September 9, 2008· 1 min read
Random ramblings
A few things that individually aren’t a full post but that I wanted to point out. First – there are a lot of idiots on the internet – at least 409 of them (the fact that this number matches the most annoying accounting/tax regulation is pure coincidence, I’m sure…). Second – My dad’s take on my assessment of the patent situation (including where he disagrees with me – thanks for reading dad!). …
June 7, 2007· 1 min read
Linking around 8/15
Here are a few links worth taking a look at: Google Trends – www.google.com/trends (thanks to Jason for the pointer). I played around with this a while ago – they’ve improved it so you can compare search trends for different terms at the same time and also see what region the searches are coming from. Woot – Think you can’t make a business based on one product sale at a time? See www.woot.com. splunk’d – You may have heard that AOL released their search database (that actually had customer identifying information attached to the search terms – oops). www.splunkd.com will let you search against this database to see what people were actually looking at – compare your searches to the population at large. …
August 15, 2006· 1 min read
Linking around 3/6
A few links for today that you might find interesting: Here’s a great presentation by Dick Hardt, CEO of Sxip Identity from OSCON 2005. Very fun if you have a few minutes and a nice example of how not to bore people with your presentation. (thanks to Ryan for the link) Since I was digging on MBAs the other day, I thought I should link over to a more thoughtful piece on alternatives to getting an MBA by Rajesh Setty who, other than having a great last name, also has a few relevant things to say about the topic. (from Lorne) …
March 6, 2006· 1 min read
More from the corporate development perspective
With VC blogs and technology blogs a dime a dozen these days, I’m always interested when I come across a new blog from a corporate development type. Just such a blog came to my attention yesterday – Lorne Groe’s Confessions of a Corporate Dealmaker. Check it out – very well written and thought provoking.
January 26, 2006· 1 min read