Have you noticed a growing number of Canadians in your midst?  Perhaps Michael Moore had it right in Canadian Bacon, that the Canadians are the new threat to the United States.  What is my evidence?  Well, Paul Kedrosky decided to move to San Diego from Vancouver so that I would send him an iPod.  Do [...]

Reading a post from a couple of weeks ago called, "The Top 6 Mistakes of Committed Young Entrepreneurs" I was compelled to comment.  The post was by Michael Simmons and can be found here.  He suggests that the first two mistakes are: Not getting started Not keeping with it His post is not without merit [...]

Last week Paul Kedrosky emailed me regarding my iPod poll.  He explained that he was an iPod-outlier – i.e. he did not own an iPod.  I decided it would be fun to send him one so he could get ‘in the game’ and I attemped to order one from Amazon.  Quickly it became apparent that [...]

We have used hosted VoIP services for more than three years.  Our employees around the world have nice Cisco VoIP phones and we have had mixed results with the quality.  On the other hand, I have marveled at the quality of calls made with Skype.  We recently installed our own open source Asterisk VoIP PBX [...]

Earlier this month I blogged about an email I recieved from Robert Leathern from LinkedIn.  I characterized the email as SPAM.  Robert responded with this comment: "Alex — I actually sent this email out to a few contacts of mine. If you don’t recall, you and I spoke several times regarding your LinkedIn success story [...]

Rumors are swirling that Sequoia is taking an about face by raising a $200MM China fund.  The former head of Sequoia publically dismissed China as being in the midst of a huge bubble.  The rumor orginates from the SiliconBeat.

I stumbled upon Sharilyn Horne’s Business Concept Blog today.  Sharilyn is a former Dallasite residing in Northern California.  She is involved in design and writing.  Check her blog out here: http://www.sharilynhorne.com/blog.html  

Periodically I recieve The SuperNova Report from Kevin Werbach.  Earlier this year I attended the conference and found it very interesting.  You can subscribe by clicking here). 

Evidently I wonder and as a result I polled a number of prominent VCs.  I received responses from Brad Feld, managing director of Mobius Venture Capital, Babak Nivi, consultant at Atlas Ventures, Paul Kedrosky, venture fellow with Ventures West, Seth Levine, principal at Mobius Venture Capital, and Jeff Clavier of SoftTech Venture Consulting. The results?  [...]

My previous post on Ajax generated several emails from friends and strangers alike.  Most were something like, "huh?"  I found this pointer to a great Ajax primer on Goldberg’s Occam Razor Blog.  Jesse James Garrett with Adaptive Path’s primer titled, Ajax, A New Approach to Web Applications is a bit dated (February of this year), [...]