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I Am Thankful 25 Nov 2011 | 08:11 am
Sometimes I wish we didn’t need a big production of a Holiday to remind us to take stock of what we are thankful for. Wouldn’t it be great to have a daily ritual of quickly reminding ourselves the ma...
Hello World! 5 Nov 2011 | 03:36 am
I’m thrilled to announce that my new firm, resolute.vc, is incorporated, open for business, and has a live website — the name is the url. Please come learn about us! Much, much more to come…
Small Pieces Loosely Joined 28 Oct 2011 | 12:56 pm
Wow, even more true 10 years later: What the Web has done to documents it is doing to just about every institution it touches. The Web isn’t primarily about replacing atoms with bits so that we can, ...
Tough Love from Karen: Etiquette Matters Too 26 Oct 2011 | 04:30 am
Those of you who have worked with me over the last few years probably know my assistant, Karen Saunders, pretty well. She is the greatest. Best. Assistant. Ever. Simply putting up with me is enough fo...
Culture Matters 20 Oct 2011 | 12:06 pm
After years of pontificating about startups (both here and in board meetings), now that I am starting my own little venture it’s time for me to start eating my own dogfood. Which, I have to say, is pr...
What’s On My Mind 8 Oct 2011 | 12:23 am
Weekly recap of the things I found myself thinking about this week. Of course the sadness that still reverberates over Steve Jobs’ death. Reflecting on the irony that, just a few days before, my 9 y...
My Steve Jobs Encounter 7 Oct 2011 | 08:55 am
Steve Jobs did not like government lawyers much. Which, unfortunately, is exactly what I was when we met back in 1997. (That part is a long story I won’t bore you with here). But I spent a couple hou...
Words to Live and Work By 5 Oct 2011 | 12:33 am
In his post explaining his decision to join CrunchFund, MG Siegler includes a great quote from Greylock’s John Lilly: One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and newly out of ...
L’shana tova — Changes for the New Year 30 Sep 2011 | 10:15 am
This year has been one of pretty big changes for me on both the personal and professional front, which makes particularly apt the following New Years’ wishes forwarded to me by my brother Bob, and whi...
Best Job Title Ever: “Founder, Customer Support” 23 Sep 2011 | 01:23 pm
I’ve been playing around with some lightweight CRM offerings and last night signed up for Worketc. And today I got an email from Dan, who introduced himself as “as your go-to guy while you’re getting...
