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Angel Investing Update

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:48:05 -0500

I've recently joined another angel group, Walnut Venture Associates. I'd been attending many of their meetings as a guest, really enjoyed working with the folks there on a couple of deals, and decided that I should ante up with them as well as Boston…

Arrows

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:43:44 -0400

I was at a restaurant recently that had a set of puzzles on the place mats. One of these was the classic arrow optical illusion:

Which of the two line segments is longer?

Now, we've all seen this one, so we readily answer, "they're both the same", of…

Angel Investing Update: One Year In

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:06:48 -0400

It's about a year ago that I joined Boston Harbor Angels, and I have found the experience to be rewarding as well as tremendously educational.

Over the course of the year I've placed small bets on three companies: Emerginvest, StylePath, and Nomir…

Yiddish? Policeman?

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:38:45 -0400

I've recently finished a novel by Michael Chabon called The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Set in the Jewish territory established in the 1930's on Baranof Island in Alaska, it's a hard-boiled detective novel. Yeah, right. Actually, it's one of the best…

I'm an Angel!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:00:23 -0400

I've just joined an angel investment group, Boston Harbor Angels. Three main reasons:

I think that it's appropriate to invest in new technologies to help those who start new ventures and to fuel innovation.
I enjoy seeing new technologies as well as the…

Thoughts on web development software

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:16:26 -0500

Subtitle: Software also follows Sturgeon's Law

OK, I've been doing web stuff for quite a while now. I was around when Al Gore and I invented the Internet. (I actually was around at BBN and helped flip the big switch that turned off NCP on the old…