clarification: i was a private angel investor in Mint's A round back in early 2007, when i was also doing some marketing consulting for the company. was not directly involved in the Founders Fund investment in Mint's C round a few MORE >>

Beware! have detected a secret virus in your CPU. Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon MORE >>

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company. You only build what you need to prove that model. Great stuff. MORE >>

I’m a big fan of a site called Stack. Overflow. It’s a surprisingly useful Q&A site for posting programming. questions, and getting answers from the community. The site has been immensely. successful and is now often the first place I go to find answers to those vexing. questions. One of the things I like most about it is that both the. others. MORE >>

Over the past 3 years i've been (in order) a user, fan, advisor, and investor in SlideShare. was first introduced to the product via a TechCrunch blog post, and i've been hooked ever since. Since October 2006 i've posted more than 60 MORE >>