Book: Who Controls the Internet?

April 28th, 2006 • Press Clippings, Technology

Recently I was speaking with someone who happened to be reading the book Who Controls the Internet? : Illusions of a Borderless World, which jogged my memory to write about it here. This is the book that I mentioned before in which some of my story at Digital Envoy is chronicled. I haven’t actually read the entire book but I did read my snippet in the book. Unfortunately the authors, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, gave more ink to some idiot competitors but hey, press is press. If you’re into politics the name Jack Goldsmith may sound familiar to you. Jack was formerly an assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel (now he teaches law at Harvard). An interesting story about his experience at the White House (and how he led a rebellion against torturing prisoners) was chronicled in NewsWeek.

Venture Capital Desperation

April 27th, 2006 • Venture Capital
Tags: Dilbert, humor, Valleywag, Venture Capital

Today’s Dilbert (available here for the next few weeks) reminded me of a funny Valleywag article I recently read.

A9.com and Windows Live

April 27th, 2006 • 3 comments Technology

I just noticed a little “powered by Windows Live” graphic on the search results page of A9.com (Amazon’s search engine). I’m pretty sure this is new but I haven’t read anything about this anywhere. Anyone have scoop on this?

Quantico: The Real World for B-Schoolers

April 17th, 2006 • 4 comments Business, Education

So as many of you know, I went to Quantico a little over a week ago. For those wondering about the short story, yes I survived and I didn’t really hurt myself during it (other than some very sore muscles afterwards). Here is the low down on the entire experience.

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Funding News: JBoss Inc. - Update/Correction

April 1st, 2006 • 2 comments Business, Entrepreneurship + Startups, Technology, Venture Capital

So it turns out my info wasn’t solid.  JBoss has not yet closed another round of funding.  So for those keeping track - they did a $10 million round back in February 2004.  That was from Matrix Partners (from their seventh fund) and Accel (from their eighth fund).  My source did tell me though that talks with Oracle aren’t going well and may have died by now.  The asking price from JBoss was staggering.  Oracle countered with an offer of about half what JBoss asked for and coincidentally, very near what their actual valuation was/is.  So it sounds like the Oracle folks who are valuing this deal are fairly reasonable people and the JBoss folks just want to squeeze as much as possible out of a potential acquirer.  Of course, if I was in their position - I’d do the same exact thing.  Which is the reason why I’m not revealing any numbers in terms of what I know.  If I know you well and you’re curious about the numbers, drop me an email and I’ll share the data with you as long as you promise not to tell anyone else.