Guarav Oberoi and Chuck Groom put on another great event last night for their Seattle Tech Startups members. I was one of three speakers – DFJ’s Bill Bryant and CEOSherpa’s Michael Schutzler were the others – and had a bunch of great conversations both during the event and in the post-event party at Big Time continue…
I just got an email from Jon Atherton, creator of the popular iPhone game Wobble iBoobs. I was surprised to hear from him, because our last email exchange ended badly (full transcript below). When I reminded him about our previous exchange, I got the reply shown in the image at top. Maybe sleaze pays in continue…
I just wasted 15 minutes of my day talking to Craig (Greg?) Malloy, who represented himself as an Associate Producer at Going Green Television. His appointment setter had called one of our portfolio companies – Cooler Planet – asking for me, claiming he wanted to talk about doing a feature on the company’s work in continue…
This blog post by Bill Burnham has generated a ton of buzz today, but it’s worth (briefly) chipping in about how the trend is playing out in the Seattle market. The quick summary of Bill’s point is this: “there is plenty of investment capital available for Consumer Internet companies that have demonstrated significant market traction continue…
We just announced that my friend and Founders’ Co-op business partner Andy Sack will be leading up a Seattle version of the awesome TechStars startup camp program next year. In a slight departure from the program structure in Boulder and Boston (where funding was provided primarily by angel investors), TechStars Seattle is being supported by continue…
My father-in-law – now retired – had two professional careers, spending his first 25 years as Naval officer, and another, equally long stint as a university professor and dean. He loved his time in the Navy, and it also offered a lasting benefit in the form of a military pension – what he likes to continue…
We just closed a new investment at Founders’ Co-op, and it’s an unusual one for us in several ways. For starters, it’s the first time we’ve invested alongside much larger venture capital firms – Seattle’s Ignition Partners and Madrona Venture Group led the round. In addition, the company – Appature – is much later-stage than continue…
Om Malik has a great piece up today on the iPod Touch, calling it the ace up Apple’s sleeve. In his words: “it is just like an iPhone except that it has more storage, is skinnier and has none of the hassles of dropped calls.” In other words, the Touch is a better device than continue…
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”– Shunryu Suzuki Just about every day – and sometimes several times a day – I get to hear an entrepreneur tell the story of their company: who they are, what they’re up to, why they’re excited about it. As I continue…
Andrew Chen, a Seattle native (more or less) who pulled up stakes for the Bay Area a few years ago, has a thought-provoking post up today on why he chose to move. His thesis is that Seattle is culturally focused on retail + SEO (e.g, Amazon, Expedia), while the Bay Area is more oriented to continue…