I’d always been a ProTools user for my recording projects, but when I set up my new home studio a couple of years ago, I decided to switch to Apple’s Logic Pro X. To teach myself to use Logic Pro and also Final Cut Pro for video editing, I decided to record a series of…
We have just hours. The FCC is about to vote to end net neutrality—breaking the fundamental principle of the open Internet—and only an avalanche of calls to Congress can stop it. So we decided to help “Break the Internet” on our sites. You can also support on Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube or in whatever wild creative way you can to get your audience to contact…
I seldom feel compelled to weigh in on politics, whether local or national, but there are two terrible pieces of public policy up for vote in Boulder next month in November that I must urge my fellow Boulderites to vote against. Props 300 and 301 are “wolves in sheeps’ clothing” initiatives that sound innocuous (and…
I attended at fantastic event in Palo Alto a few weeks ago: Excite’s reunion, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the launch of Excite.com. (Fun inverse exponential tidbit: at launch, Excite’s index contained a whopping 1.5 million pages.) It was great to reconnect with the incredible set of folks I was fortunate to be on a…
At Foundry Group, we often have our portfolio companies come in to present to the four of us to work out the kinks in their pitch prior to heading out on the road to raise money. It can be very powerful to have the four of us in the room at the same time offering…
Decappuccino Version 1, by Andrew Thomas. Decappuccino Version 2, by Mustafa Kandaz. Last month, in the weeks before Christmas, my son Quinn coined a term for a new kind of espresso drink while I was making my morning brew – the decappuccino. We chuckled about it, and imagined what the (potentially deadly) effects might…
Last month I did an interview for the Internet History Podcast, where I tell the story of my experiences as a co-founder of Excite.com, starting way back in 1993, ancient history in internet time. There’s a ton of great interviews on this site, so if you’re interested in history of the internet, I highly recommend…
My partners and I released our second Foundry Group music video earlier this week. My partner Jason wrote the music and directed the video, and he I and spent an afternoon poolside at a Holiday Inn Express (that’s how we roll) in North County San Diego (relaxing prior to dinner at the amazing Stone Brewing…
Just over two years ago, my partners and I released a somewhat preposterous music video. We had so much fun with that, so we decided to do it again. We’re not quite done with the final editing, so the full video is not quite ready, but we thought we’d put out a trailer / teaser….
My Foundry Group partner Jason Mendelson and I attended second annual Startup Iceland conference in June, expertly run by Bala Kamallakharan. We had a great time meeting members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Reykjavik and touring the other-wordly countryside. Jason and I even got to meet the President of Iceland, who spoke at the opening…