Contrarian Investing: Smart, but Scary

March 18, 2010

I am a contrarian investor.  Which is why I have now shifted my angel focus to real estate for a while.  I’ve done that because real estate is in the toilet, especially in Arizona where I live in the winter, while tech is flying high in the Bay Area where I live in the summer. […]

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Addicted to Social Media?

March 17, 2010

This is a hilarious study, courtesy of Retrevo.com. I have my laptop and my iPhone on my nightstand, so according to it, my habits are those of someone under 25.  Twitter & FaceBook: – 48% of people check/update FaceBook and/or Twitter after they go to bed – 18% of people under 25 years old can't go […]

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SXSWi: Innovators Win, Everyone Else Loses

March 15, 2010

SXSW is a celebration of innovation: in film, music, and interactive technologies. This is the third time I’ve gone to SXSWi, and every year I am happier I spent the time and treasure to attend. Yesterday I went to perhaps the best session I attended this year, Andrew Keen’s intimate talk on  “Is Innovation Fair?” […]

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My Fifteen Minutes of Fame

March 14, 2010

<br />Watch live video from The Cube LIVE from Austin on Justin.tv Posted via email from Not Really Stealthmode

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SXSW Live Studio: My Intellectual Home Sweet Home

March 13, 2010

This happened last year at SXSW, too: I walked into the live studio Michael Sean Wright had set up, and I felt like I had come home. This year, the studio is at TexasCoworking, the brainchild of Paul Terry Walhus (@springnet) and a newly-renovated co-working space above a bar on 6th Street. It's a quiet, thoughtful […]

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SXSW: The Beginning

March 12, 2010

I walked over to the Austin Convention Center and got my SXSW badge this morning, at the crack of dawn for geeks (9:30 AM). Walking through the Convention Center, it was easy to see that some things had changed. 1)The food has moved to a much more prominent place. Right at the northwest entrance, there’s […]

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Conversation with Scobleizer on Buzz: Impossible

March 9, 2010

We have all been talking about our issues with Google Buzz.  In theory, having your conversations aggregated in your email should be a huge convenience. But from the moment Buzz appeared in our inboxes, it was greeted as either a savior or a marauder. And a week later, even the people who had thought "savior," […]

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Real Estate Investors Can and Should Invest in Startups

March 8, 2010

Real estate investors should invest in startup tech companies.Typically, early stage angels and real estate investors never mix, because the real estate guys feel like they can’t measure the risk in startup investing.  But there’s not that much difference; I invest in both, and I know. What’s really cool is that real estate and tech […]

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The Wrath of the Social Customer

March 7, 2010

Companies had better get out in front of the social customer. She is not without resources. When she gets angry, she’s tough. Paypal, this means you and the ridiculous customer service survey you sent me this morning. I am missing a $4000 check that was mailed from my Paypal account to my home on 2/11. […]

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Aurora Loan Services Saga, Part 3

March 1, 2010

After I got all the comments on my last blog post, I got frightened that I would be thrown out of the loan modification program and then would be in foreclosure for not making the payments of the original loan while I was making those of the modification program. Several desperate people wrote me that […]

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