doink   (it's one of those things about nothing) homus || backlog || elsewhere || huh?   Sunday, April 30, 2000 twas a lovely weekend here in la. i spent too much of it indoors doing work-related stuff, unfortunately. but i did get out to play some tennis, and i also made it out to voda, which is always fun. (10:37:11 PM) Friday, April 28, 2000 underwater options. apparently, 1/3 of all tech stocks to ipo in the last 2 years are now trading below their ipo price, which is bad for optionholders who can on after the ipo (and probably even for most who came in before the ipo). ouch. (12:22:26 PM) Thursday, April 27, 2000 sent to me four times today: waaaazup elian. is this really news? is there really nothing else worth reporting going on in the news? (12:50:07 AM) Wednesday, April 26, 2000 forrester posted a write-up of the speech mentioned in the news.com article i referenced few days ago. yep, he thinks dotcom execs are screwed. i think he makes a few good points. but i also think the argument might be a bit specious. i think it's less of "all dotcom execs are in it for the short-term and have no big vision" than it is "there are so many new companies that there aren't enough killer execs to go around". but that's just one man's opinion... what's yours? (4:39:08 PM) <this is not a post> (1:44:48 PM) dog fight. (12:53:50 PM) Tuesday, April 18, 2000 many dot-com ceos lack depth, experience, and common business sense? NO WAY! (3:41:02 PM) tennis, anyone? (11:48:27 AM) Monday, April 17, 2000 i got a new laptop this weekend. i had the pleasure of spending 4 hours at fry's electronics to do the return and exchange thing. ended up with a silvery shiny new fujitsu, which i'm hoping will be a bit more reliable than the sony(s) i tried last week. (1:48:05 PM) rain rain, go away. (1:43:19 PM) Friday, April 14, 2000 metaphor of the year: "leaping to B2B like chimps swinging from vine to vine to stay ahead of a raging forest fire." (5:09:32 PM) *pop* (3:49:50 PM) preach it! 10 snippets of wisdom for your start-up types. (1:57:47 PM) i was really excited last week when i got a new laptop at work. it's one of those skinny, light, shiny sony vaio systems. i'm not so excited now. the hard drive died on that first on on wednesday night. and then the replacement that i got yesterday hangs on startup about 75% of the time. back to fry's i go... (12:10:45 PM) re-strategizer! (12:06:07 PM) Thursday, April 13, 2000 "This is a huge market because instead of just replicating Web site hosting in 30 different centers, we can just store the Web sites in different data centers." huh? (12:59:07 AM) Tuesday, April 11, 2000 ths sky is falling! (12:00:21 PM) we don' need no steenkin' vc money! (9:49:16 AM) Monday, April 10, 2000 instant company. just add water (cooler). (4:18:34 PM) Sunday, April 09, 2000 don't look now: here come the incubator incubators. (7:44:31 PM) Thursday, April 06, 2000 tiiiny bubbles.... or perhaps "tiptoe, through the tulips"? (11:54:02 PM) Wednesday, April 05, 2000 interesting look behind the scenes at e&y's nyc incubator. my favorite part of the story? that there's actually a guy named Pappajohn. (9:29:24 AM) "when i grow up, i wanna be a vc!" (9:23:46 AM) Tuesday, April 04, 2000 U.S. Population: 13,462. i love the onion. (4:47:28 PM) poorly planned office moves are frustrating. (2:20:26 PM) Monday, April 03, 2000 ms guilty of antitrust violations. exact ramifactions to come. (4:55:39 PM) PLAY BALL!!! (2:55:39 PM) it was gorgeous here in socal this weekend. hit the beach on saturday, and the bar on saturday night. sunday was spent mostly indoors. too much sun + too much booze = bad hangover. (12:04:27 AM) finally posted a few shots from my trip to spring training. (12:02:52 AM)   powered by blogger        copyright © 1973-2001, mike manning