…fighting entropy one financing round at a time
In Venture Capital, we have lots of rules of thumb for assessing entrepreneurs. Some such rules are:
Invest in guys who are already rich, because they have fewer distortions in their motivations.
Invest in guys who aren’t already rich, because they’re hungry.
Invest in guys who have put their own wealth at risk, because [...]
I was slow to adopt a lot of new social networking technologies. I read blogs for several years (OK, like, three) before getting into “active” blogging (fairly frequent, first-person writing, unlike the mostly-error-message blog posts I put up at my Harvard Law blog.
I was super-fast, however, to adopt Linux, email, [...]
I noticed today that I had a few people find my blog via Google with a search for, e.g. “ubuntu software install texas hold em.” This is because I have some writings about poker and about Ubuntu Linux.
Well, I don’t want to pass up the chance to give good, globally-utility-maximizing [...]
I was reminded by an Economist article recently about a conversation I overheard at an Asian noodle shop a few weeks back. Some guy was talking to his buddy. The conversation went, roughly:
“Yeah, I just got a great deal on a boat.”
“Where’d you get the money? [...]
In a post entitled The Venture Capital Aptitude Test, quasi-famous blogger and sorta-VC Guy Kawasaki rags on junior venture investors in general and on young VC associates in particular. He prescribes “contempt” for “any young person who opt[s] for venture capital” and implies that such people are “full-of-shi[t]” (saying “shiitake” [...]
I spent some time this week with some friends from the Portland Perl Mongers (PDX.pm) at 2007’s first meeting, devoted to Web app frameworks, games, and Martinis, in no particular order. Just as Seattle is blessed with a vibrant Ruby community (the Ruby Brigade meets up on Capitol Hill), Portland [...]