This year the Israel Venture Association invited me to deliver the keynote talk at their annual conference. I agreed, since our 15 investments in Israel have outperformed our overall portfolio, and I wish to support Bessemer's office in Herzliya. After the talk a lot of people asked me for the sli ... Read more

I belong to a small non-partisan group called Americans Against Exotic Derivatives (AAXED) . Our primary goal is to educate our elected representatives in Washington, D.C., about the conditions that led to the global financial melt-down. Our first project is to get a copy of a very important ... Read more

Last year I started a Facebook group for Utah iPhone developers . The group now has 146 members. Recently, Cary Snowden (of CrunchLunch fame) and Brad Hintze jumped in to help run the group, and they have actually started organizing real world (hopefully monthly) meetings for this group. The ... Read more

Since I last blogged about the international 3rd place medalist a capella chorus Voices in Harmony, I’ve so enjoyed their performances that I went ahead and joined the chorus as a performing lead singer. To hear why, come out for our annual spring show , 7:30pm May 30 at the Center for Perform ... Read more

We have several open positions at FamilyLink.com, and I’ve decided to blog about them in hopes that it will increase our pool of potential candidates and educate potential candidates on our hiring process–particularly our use of trust networks to vet candidates.  If you are interested ... Read more

Congrats to the Smule team on launching Leaf Trombone World Stage! Blogged with the Flock Browser ... Read the full post ... Read more

I lunched today with PR agent extraordinaire Abigail Johnson, who gave me great tips for my upcoming trip to Russia. I reciprocated with a lesson I learned from a recent exercise in amateur PR. I had wanted to tell the world about an exciting development at MashLogic -- a startup we're incubating ... Read more

The latest entry at Crashopedia is a partial transcript of a video interview from yesterday where Congressional TARP Oversight chairwoman Elizabeth Warren reveals the astonishing fact that Secretary Paulson misled her, the public and Congress about what equity and warrants the government got ... Read more

Newsweek has a great article in the April 13th edition called, “The Senator Who Saw This Coming.” It is a brief interview with North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan, about his effort to regulate exotic derivatives back in 1994. I met with one of Senator Dorgan’s key staffers on a ... Read more

On Friday Twitter was abuzz about GoodMail's new CertifiedVideo service. For those who missed my post on Why I Invested in GoodMail , GoodMail shifts the onus and cost of email security from individuals like us to the commercial senders who have the budget and motivation to pay for authentication ... Read more