How many metrics can you call adorable? Site abandonment rate is an adorable metric, to me : ), for these reasons: Money, money, money baby. IMHO there isn't a metric out there that can tell you a lot so quickly and any improvement you make to it will directly and immediately impact the bottom-line. Few pages, awesome optimization potential. MORE >>

'The consistent feedback each semester during my "New Venture Formation" graduate class is that the guest speakers were the highlight of the course. So I was pleased when someone sent me this link to a terrific collection of MORE >>

After yesterday's post on VC's embracing failure and my comment on the favorable American landscape for entrepreneurship, David Hornik has a great posting on exactly this having spent some time recently in Europe looking at the environment for start-ups there. Tech industry MORE >>

Well it didn't take long for the published AOL search data to get a web interface. In fact, there have been many appearing in the past 24 hrs. That's where noteworthy patterns will become apparent. As shared by many in TechCrunch comments , there is definitely some bad karma coming from outing specific AOL users -- particularly by name. MORE >>

I'm heading to Nantucket for a three-day weekend to get some much needed rest and sun. plan to spend most of the days at the beach (bodyboarding, frisbee, etc.) and nights out on the town. I'll be bringing my laptop, but am planning MORE >>