The New VC Handbook

November 12, 2005 By

Rick Segal just posted his version of the New VC Handbook.

I’ll be honest. If I were starting a company I would try to do it without much VC, if any. Why? Cause I know some folks who’ve worked for VC-run startups. Ones where the investors made billions. Where the founders got maybe a hundred million. And where everyone else got literally bubkiss.

I hear these stories all the time. How the investors just don’t care about the developer. The folks who actually make the product work and make it pretty. Er useful.

Is there a new kind of VC that looks for a win-win-win? I’m not sure. But if there is one out there, I think that’s a selling point. Word does get around. Same for big companies. Are we looking out for everyone’s interest or just our own? Word does get around, you know.

Filed Under: Blog Tips, entrepreneurs

Amazing people doing cool things with technology

November 11, 2005 By

Dean Hachomovitch, head of the IE team, called me last night just raving about some of the people he had just met as part of the “start something amazing” awards that were handed out yesterday on campus.

Today I’ve been watching some of the videos and I think you’ll enjoy meeting some of these people and seeing what they are doing.

If that doesn’t work for you, check out the video I just put up - Dean Hachomovitch and Dave Leubbert have a chat that we filmed at Gnomedex. Dave worked on the Mac Word 1.0 team and they talk about some of the fun times in the 1980s working at Microsoft.

Filed Under: Blog Tips, entrepreneurs, IBM, Microsoft Office

Dave Winer posts full text of Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie’s memo

November 8, 2005 By

Just saw that Dave Winer just posted the full text of Bill Gates’ “birthday memo/email” and Ray Ozzie’s memo/email to the company.

These memos are two more reasons why I enjoy working at Microsoft.

Filed Under: Blog Tips, entrepreneurs, learning, Microsoft Office

Memeorandum competition from TailRank?

November 8, 2005 By

Kevin Burton just wrote me and said “we’re in public beta now.” And, so, another site, TailRank, that’s trying to help with the information overload problem pops on. It looks like an interesting competitor to my favorite Memeorandum. What do you think? I’m going to have to use it for a week to really have a good idea how it adds value to my life. I’m also going to upload my OPML file right now. Kevin writes that it’s a meme engine on his blog.

Filed Under: Blog Tips, entrepreneurs, Russia, Web

Pubsub’s new reading lists interesting

November 7, 2005 By

I was just over at TechCrunch and Michael Arrington pointed me to Pubsub’s new reading lists. Those are cool! Heh, Shel Israel is rated #4, our book blog Naked Conversations is rated #2, and Steve Rubel is rated #1. I like the little arrows that show upward or downward trending.

I wish they did one for tech.

We need far more granular lists. Hey, how about letting me track the people on MY OPML lists? I have 1,400 people I subscribed to. Why can’t I see which ones are moving up the list or down the list?

Filed Under: Blog Tips, entrepreneurs

Sam Ramji opens SaaS program at Microsoft

November 4, 2005 By

Sam Ramji says “the complaints department is open.” Heheh! Oh, Sam, you have no idea. It’s been open for years. But, it’s good to see Sam and others pay attention to the emerging business space (cough, developers who are firing Microsoft cause we’re too expensive, too hard to deal with, etc).

Filed Under: development, entrepreneurs, Event, learning, Microsoft Office, streaming, Web
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