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Jan 30, 2007

I gave a keynote at the Information Industry Summit yesterday during the "preview session" which features emerging information businesses. We've been investing in information businesses for years at the various firms I've worked for and I've watched the business change a [...]

Jan 24, 2007

The sense of progress in the computer industry is so strong that it feels almost inevitable. That momentum may be most obvious in the increasing capabilities of the underlying technology – faster chips, cheaper storage, and more bandwidth, but there [...]

Jan 15, 2007

I was trading emails with one of our portfolio company CEOs last week. The subject was a company that was looking for venture capital that offered a service that was similar to one of the services our portfolio company offered. [...]

Jan 10, 2007

It's been a while since our last post on this blog. Year-end activities got in the way. We were in the midst of a string of posts on what we look for in our investments when we went radio [...]

Nov 28, 2006

Each month we see something like thirty to fifty new investment opportunities that generally fit our investment strategy. They come from all over the place. Just in the past month, we've seen opportunities in Israel, Australia, China, London, San Diego, [...]

Nov 7, 2006

I had a cup of coffee yesterday with Craig Newmark. Toward the end of the conversation, I told him that one of the most important things I learned by studying Craigslist was the importance of customer service. Craig is, famously, [...]