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Recently I received an email from a Texas based software development company asking the following question:  "…how is it going recruiting people who either already know Ruby on Rails or who can pick it up fast?" I was about to respond to his email and I decided to blog about my thoughts here. To be [...]

Several weeks ago we migrated the M | Ventures website and my blog, Texas VC, into a single site (i.e. you are on it) that is housed on WordPress. Weblogs Work blogged about it here. Architel, one of our companies, is in the process of migrating their traditional corporate website located at http://architel.com to a [...]

So if you are going to perpetrate a global conspiracy don’t forget to disable track changes in Word. The U.N. just got caught doctoring Detlev Mehlis’, a German prosecutor, report on the murder of Hariri. Here is the story from the World Times Online: Mr Annan had pledged repeatedly through his chief spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, [...]

Interested in making investments in the third world? Seth Godin points to Soni Pitts post on Kiva. Kiva’s concept is simple, anyone can be a microlender, “Instead of spending $25 on lattes, you can help a farmer in Bengladesh buy a bull… and then he pays you back.” I am in… Technorati Tags: Bengladesh, Seth [...]

You may have noticed the new link at the bottom of each post called “Bookmark on del.icio.us” (please note that it is not working properly as of late). I am a casual user of del.icio.us, one of Fred Wilson‘s investments, and toy with the service on occasion. Recently I cleaned up my tags in an [...]

Our friends have started a walk-in healthcare business with a major retailer.  In the meantime we have been watching several other startups jump in the space.  The latest is Take Care Health Systems who just cut a deal with Rite Aid.  Their initial launch will be inside ten Portland area locations.  The idea is simple, [...]

Rada Mihalcea, an assistant professor at the University of North Texas, was awarded $107,112 for her work in “finding important information in unstructured text.” Evidently Google thinks “Her work outperforms the current best-performing algorithms, even existing supervised algorithms while this approach is unsupervised. Awesome.” (Photo is of Rada hugging a buffalo) Technorati Tags: google, rada [...]

Bill Burnham, an early investor in Datapower, recently detailed the lessons he learned through his investment in the company. I have listed the overall lessons learned below, but I recommend reading the entire post here. Local presence matter. Sometimes VCs should keep their mouths shut. Shotgun Weddings Don’t Work. VCs can indeed be very unethical. [...]

David Beisel, the Genuine VC, describes (in great detail) the seven things that employees should ask before joining a startup. I have listed the seven ‘things’ below or you can check out the full post here. If you are receiving employee options, what is the number of fully-diluted outstanding shares? Has their ever been a [...]