Heathrow Travel Hell
It looks like Chaos Reigns a Second day at Heathrow.  The spiffy new Terminal Five has some "glitches."  Who said modernization was easy? ...

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I Could Have Been A Card Counter
Amy and I went to see 21: The Movie today.  It's based on the phenomenal book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Stud...

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Apply To TechStars Now
You've got three more days - the application deadline closes on 3/31 at midnight!  If you don't know what I'm talking about, take a look a...

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The Underpants Gnomes Applied to VC Backed Companies
From Adam Smith at Square 1 Bank on how NOT to pitch your company to a VC. The full segment is below. There is a philosophy that "all you need to do is get tons of underpants traffic an...

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Learning From Failure
I haven't written much in the Failure series lately, but I've got a doozy or two coming soon.  In the mean time, Chip Griffin has a goo...

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$61 Million Is Still A Lot of Money
Marc Andreesen has a scathing but brilliant post up today titled Congratulations, you're paying Jimmy Cayne's marijuana bills!  I love Marc's ana...

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My Experience on NPR’s Talk of the Nation
I've been listening to NPR since I was 7 years old.  Whenever my mom or dad drove me to school, NPR's Morning Edition was playing.  Gu...

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Rally Software Is Looking For Salespeople
Time to actually figure out the real job board thing on this blog since I'm now posting job notices a couple of times a week (feel free to co...

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Google’s 2007 Annual Letter
As I was reading through my RSS feeds this morning, I came across Graeme Thickins reposting of the Google 2007 Annual Letter (this year written by Larry Page.)  It a good one - written in plain...

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Sitemaps and Facebook
Smart move - I've been wondering when this would happen.  You can now SEO your Facebook applications with Sitemaps.  If you are a Facebook app developer, it's well worth yo...

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