Andy and I spend a good amount of time talking about startup ideas we’d like to see at Founders Co-op. Sometimes we get so excited about an idea we start it ourselves, but that’s not something we can do every day. So I was inspired the other day to hear that Y Combinator had initiated continue…
I’ve spent more time on planes than usual lately, which means I’ve actually had time to read something more than my inbox, feed reader and streaming-sources-of-distraction. Two recent reads worth mentioning for this audience are: Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big (Bo Burlingham) This book did nice job of articulating continue…
Back in April I wrote up some parallels I was seeing between the current iPhone app explosion and the first big wave of mass adoption of the Web. One of the patterns I predicted at the time was a building rush of incumbent companies coming into the space: “Brands Rush In. In the late ’90s continue…
I’m sitting in the Denver airport heading home (if the air travel gods allow it) from TechStars Boulder Demo Day 2009. I’ve been a fan of the organization since it started, not least because Brad Feld (a Judy’s Book investor and board member) is a prime mover behind the project. But this was my first continue…