Image via Wikipedia Mint.com announced today that they were acquired by Intuit for $170 million. It has been a short 3 years since we met Aaron Patzer at a STIRR dinner in the Valley. Seven days after we met, he...

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Image via Wikipedia I was putting together a trip to Cincinnati to visit my friends at Procter & Gamble where I am on their Digital Advisory Board and they asked if we would be interested in doing an Office Hours...

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At the end of every year I always get asked what my New Year resolutions are. My answer is always the same….I don’t make New Year resolutions (or even Chinese New Year resolutions— Gong hei fat choi! :-). If something...

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Congratulations to Ofer, Dave and the folks at Sendori for their acquisition by IAC. We met them just over a year ago and loved their novel idea for an ad network selling domainer inventory. Clearly IAC loved it too and...

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As you might imagine, the conversation du jour in VC and entrepreneur circles is around the current market gyrations, the Sequoia conclave (and kudos to those guys for kicking off this conversation), the subsequent very smart opinions from VCs and...

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