OK. I'm starting to wonder if an ex-staffer or advisor from my Startup 1.0 has landed at Yahoo! First, they announce a product called Searchmonkey. Sounds a little like Greasemonkey, and intentionally so. Searchmonkey is supposed to give site owners more control over how their search listings appear on Yahoo!, ...

At the beginning of April, I set a goal of having a Startup 3.0 prototype ready by the end of the month. I'm close, but the blog updates here have unfortunately paid the price. New content will be coming on Cinco de Mayo -- May 5th for the gringos in the ...

Kicking-off the weekend with something light is becoming a bit a of a tradition here at twicefunded.com. This week's video is something that made my wife laugh out lout (er, excuse me, LOL) the first time she saw it. I've always loved Sonic ads, and when I went looking for this ...

Well, it was bound to happen I suppose. I saw the first signs of phishing on Facebook a few days ago. I got a note saying that someone had posted something to my "Fun Wall." I wasn't expecting anything from this particular friend, so I went to have a look. I ...

Another shout-out to a fellow entrepreneur today. BuddyTV here in Seattle just landed US$6mm in funding from Madrona Venture Group. I've met with Andy Liu, one of the founders at BuddyTV, several times over the past year. He strikes me as a true entrepreneur with all the right stuff to form ...

[ Original cartoon from SpiralPocus.com ] Something light (errr...maybe not so light) for this Friday's post. Maybe I should upload one of my still-in-college photos, circa 1990, and put it next to a recent snapshot to really prove the point! At least my MacBook Air is really, really thin.

Someone asked me recently what technology inspires me. Oddly, the question sort of took me by surprise. I've been so heads-down in one startup and then the next that I didn't have a list at the ready. The answer I gave, incidentally, was Ruby on Rails. I haven't been so inspired ...

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, a.k.a. "The Motor City." I think it's safe to say that Detroit hasn't topped the list of "hot" or "cool" or "best" cities for a while. But such wasn't always the case. My parents could remember the Detroit of the 50's and 60's. ...

I don't like to think of myself as old, but I guess my next major b-day is the big four-oh. In the land of social networking, that makes me ummm, like, a fossil or something. (sarcasm) For a while, I just didn't "get it." Two little kids didn't leave much ...

Postings will be a little light the first week of April. And by "light" I mean there won't be any. (I figure I should just tell it like it is!) I'll be taking the family on a West Coast road trip for spring break. Fans of a certain movie may get ...