A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at TIECon on the Search Industry.  Peter Norvig,  Google’s Director of Research, made one comment in particula...

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Well it's October 1st, the beginning of Q4 2006, and I am happy to announce that I have finally launched Inductive Capital, a investment fund targeting public ...

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What do you get when you marry ping servers and RSS with stored queries?  A whole new type of search that is destined to become the search in...

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There has been a lot of commentary about Google Real Estate’s beta launch earlier this week.  It turns out that Google also is quietly te...

Continue Reading Real Estate, Cars, Jobs: Watch Out World, Google Base Has Only Begun To Stir

I spent the weekend in Louisville, Kentucky thinking about analogies (and how new things are like old things.)  Amy and I took four friends to...

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Given my attempt to run the North Pole Marathon, I’ve gotten involved in a project called International Polar Year.  While this is ...

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Finally, some brilliance in the travel quart-size plastic-bag absurdity. At LaGuardia in the US Airways TSA checkpoint.  Thanks Wal-Mart and US Airways – you both s...

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A few days ago I wrote about the transition from a small to medium to large business.  I had a few people write to me with additional questions, incl...

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Congrats to my friend (and world traveler) Ben Casnocha for being highlighted in BusinessWeek as one of the best entrepreneurs under 25. ...

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Amy just blogged about her trip last week to New Orleans.  Neither of us had been there since Hurricane Katrina.  She went as an attendee at...

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