Archive for February, 2008

Oh yeah some money changed hands (Opera switches from Yahoo to Google for Search)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Presumably with a straight face Marshall Kirkpartrick over at Read/Write Web writes about Opera switching it's default search provider from Yahoo! to Google saying "Presumably there's some money changing hands." Ya think?  Search distribution is a big money game.  Google pays $10 per box to Dell for pre-installing the Google Toolbar ...

Seattle Venture Scene: Madrona on Fire & Seattle VC Scene waking up?

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

One of the interesting challenges to being a startup guy in Seattle vs. the Bay Area is that there are a lot more VC's down there versus here.  As a result there is more competition amongst VC's for good deals and they seem to be relatively hungry compared to Seattle.  ...

Startup Prime

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Over the past year I have had the chance to advise, consult, and work at a number of early stage companies. And as I sit here on a flight to Silicon Valley this morning, I have a few seconds to reflect and come to the conclusion that I sure ...

eric’s right: dopplr too closed

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Thanks to Scott I am using Dopplr to document my upcoming trips - but the lack of public profiles is a hindrance to discovering folks to meetup with.  As EricM notes if you want to see what happens when you open up your network - just look what happened to ...

I’m Alive and Presenting Next Week at Ignite Seattle (Feb 19)

Friday, February 15th, 2008

I've been uber-swamped with work, projects, advisory stuff and everything else that comes along with being knee-deep in startup-land and thus despite having lots of things I want to blog just not finding the time these days. Lookery's going great - just wrapping up our seed round with some ...