Anand Iyer just spent the day with us at Techstars giving a great talk on .NET, Silverlight, and other technologies in the Microsoft Stack. Anand is the Microsoft Technology Evangelist for Northern California. He presented some pretty awesome stuff. Don Dodge and Dave Drach also joined us and met with our companies. If you’re interested …
Mike Culver is a technology evangelist for Amazon Web Services. This includes S3, EC2, SimpleDB, and more. These services have been so important for so many startups – they’re great because they scale along with your business, and are very affordable for startups. Mike will be in town visiting Techstars on Tuesday, June 3rd. While …
ID345 is located next door to Danny Newman’s Pocketfuzz offices. It’s got a very industrial feel to it and according to Christy Kruzick, has the potential to go the direction of the Pixar “cubicles.” That is, arty self-expressions of the inhabitants. David covered ID345’s launch last month. Here’s a quick video tour of ID345. I …
Here’s a good video with Brad Feld of The Foundry Group talking about raising early-stage funding. While generally interesting, it’s also of specific interest to those who would like to understand how the Foundry Group thinks about their “thematic” investment approach. Brad describes how their defined themes are the primary filter, and the team is …
I’m sitting on a couch in Italy, and Brad Feld is lying on an adjacent and perpendicular couch. We just had a thrilling conversation about what you should do to beat your closest competitor when you’re number one in a market. This (d)evolved into what I thought was a much more interesting conversation about what …
Bill Flagg (who recently sold his company, RegOnline) wrote a great post called Focused Investing on his blog. In it, Bill tries to reconcile his historical mode of investing (full speed on one thing at a time) with what the rest of the world seems to do (diversified asset portfolio theory). His conclusion: “Wait for …