On Wednesday, after my partner Brad and I finished a meeting in Washington DC, we settled in for the long drive (during rush hour) from DC to Dulles International Airport. Sitting in the back of the car, we fired up my MacBook Pro, got online using my Verizon EVDO card, fired up my SlingPlayer, connected…
It has been a rough travel week. It started with my ill-timed journey from Denver to Harrisburg, PA on Sunday afternoon when the snow in Denver and Chicago conspired against me and trapped my plane on the tarmac in Denver for 4 hours while we waited for de-icing and runway plowing. Once I arrived in…
I was in Las Vegas last week with my partner Jason Mendelson for CES, my third or fourth (they sort of all blur together) trip to Sin City for this bit of consumer-electronic craziness. I just read Dave Hornik’s post on his trip to CES and felt compelled to share my thoughts as well. While…
Many blog pundits have predicted that blogs and RSS will ultimately kill the press release / newswire business. But as Mark Twain might say, “the rumors of the press release’s death have been greatly exaggerated.” At least thus far. The more accurate thing to say is that world of PR will be forever changed by…
As reported earlier this week, eBay announced it is buying StubHub for $310m. As a (small) individual investor in StubHub, I’m delighted by this outcome. StubHub is a great success story: the company was started by Stanford MBA students Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr in the dark days of the tech downturn and was able…