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Music: Guitar Solo Series #3

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Those who know me know that I am a Steely Dan fanatic. Here's my rendition of Eliot Randall's amazing intro guitar solo to "Reeling in the Years." The post Music: Guitar Solo Series #3 appeared first on McInBlog.

McInblog 609 days ago

Music: Guitar Solo Series #2

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Here's my second installment in the series of Ryan's favorite guitar solos. "Sexy MF" by Prince, with a kick-ass funky-jazzy solo by Levi Seacer, Jr. The post Music: Guitar Solo Series #2 appeared first on McInBlog.

McInblog 609 days ago

Music: Guitar Solo Series #1

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I'd always been a ProTools user for my recording projects, but when I set up my new home studio a couple of years ago, I decided to switch to Apple's Logic Pro X. To teach myself to use Logic Pro and also Final Cut Pro for video editing, I decided to record a series of... Read more The post Music: Guitar Solo Series #1 appeared first on McInBlog....

McInblog 609 days ago

Music: Stuck in the Middle with You

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I haven't posted in years, so I thought I'd add some new content. I recorded this in my basement studio during the early months of COVID lockdown in 2020. ryanmcintyre Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealers Wheel The post Music: Stuck in the Middle with You appeared first on McInBlog.

McInblog 609 days ago

Break The Internet To Save Net Neutrality

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We have just hours. The FCC is about to vote to end net neutrality—breaking the fundamental principle of the open Internet—and only an avalanche of calls to Congress can stop it. So we decided to help "Break the Internet" on our sites. You can also support on Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube or in whatever wild creative way you can to get your audience to ...

McInblog 2298 days ago

I Voted and I’m With Her

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I just turned my ballot in this morning, and #I’mWithHer. I voted for Hillary Clinton. While I have misgivings about the political family dynasty dynamics at work here, she’s one of the most qualified presidential candidates in our country’s history, and is well-prepared to ably serve our country as President. Today I voted with my... Read more T...

McInblog 2697 days ago

Boulder: VOTE NO on Props 300 and 301!

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I seldom feel compelled to weigh in on politics, whether local or national, but there are two terrible pieces of public policy up for vote in Boulder next month in November that I must urge my fellow Boulderites to vote against. Props 300 and 301 are "wolves in sheeps' clothing" initiatives that sound innocuous (and... Read more The post Boulder:...

McInblog 3086 days ago

Excite: Are You Experienced?

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I attended at fantastic event in Palo Alto a few weeks ago: Excite's reunion, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the launch of Excite.com. (Fun inverse exponential tidbit: at launch, Excite's index contained a whopping 1.5 million pages.) It was great to reconnect with the incredible set of folks I was fortunate to be on a... Read more The post ...

McInblog 3098 days ago

Pitch Your Company, Don’t Present About Your Company’s Pitch

 Mark As Read    

At Foundry Group, we often have our portfolio companies come in to present to the four of us to work out the kinks in their pitch prior to heading out on the road to raise money. It can be very powerful to have the four of us in the room at the same time offering... Read more The post Pitch Your Company, Don't Present About Your Company's Pitch a...

McInblog 3346 days ago

Decappuccino – Crowdsourcing a Comic

 Mark As Read    

Decappuccino Version 1, by Andrew Thomas. Decappuccino Version 2, by Mustafa Kandaz.   Last month, in the weeks before Christmas, my son Quinn coined a term for a new kind of espresso drink while I was making my morning brew – the decappuccino. We chuckled about it, and imagined what the (potentially deadly) effects might... Read more ...

McInblog 3366 days ago

Internet History Podcast (Excite)

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Last month I did an interview for the Internet History Podcast, where I tell the story of my experiences as a co-founder of Excite.com, starting way back in 1993, ancient history in internet time. There's a ton of great interviews on this site, so if you're interested in history of the internet, I highly recommend... Read more The post Internet H...

McInblog 3366 days ago

Worst of Times Lyrics

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My partners and I released our second Foundry Group music video earlier this week. ?My partner Jason wrote the music and directed the video, and he I and spent an afternoon poolside at a Holiday Inn Express (that's how we roll) in North County San Diego (relaxing prior to dinner at the amazing Stone Brewing... Read more The post Worst of Times Lyri...

McInblog 3814 days ago

Coming Soon?

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Just over two years ago, my partners and I released a somewhat preposterous music video. ?We had so much fun with that, so we decided to do it again. ?We're not quite done with the final editing, so the full video is not quite ready, but we thought we'd put out a trailer / teaser.... Read more The post Coming Soon… appeared first on McInBlog....

McInblog 3835 days ago

Coming Soon?

 Mark As Read    

Just over two years ago, my partners and I released a somewhat preposterous music video. ?We had so much fun with that, so we decided to do it again. ?We're not quite done with the final editing, so the full video is not quite ready, but we thought we'd put out a trailer / teaser.

McInblog 3835 days ago

Startup Iceland Panel Discussion

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My Foundry Group partner Jason Mendelson and I attended second annual Startup Iceland conference in June, expertly run by Bala Kamallakharan. ?We had a great time meeting members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Reykjavik and touring the other-wordly countryside. ?Jason and I even got to meet the President of Iceland, who spoke at the opening......

McInblog 3906 days ago

Startup Iceland Panel Discussion

 Mark As Read    

My Foundry Group partner Jason Mendelson and I attended second annual Startup Iceland conference in June, expertly run by Bala Kamallakharan. ?We had a great time meeting members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Reykjavik and touring the other-wordly countryside. ?Jason and I even got to meet the President of Iceland, who spoke at the opening...

McInblog 3906 days ago

Ctrl+Alt+Compete Documentary

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Last year while I was at SXSW, I stopped in to do an interview for a documentary film project called Ctrl+Alt+Compete, produced by Ten100 in partnership with Microsoft Corporation. Some background info and a clip of my interview has been posted on the Ctrl+Alt+Compete website. There's some great interviews up on the site, which I... Read more The p...

McInblog 4408 days ago

Ctrl+Alt+Compete Documentary

 Mark As Read    

Last year while I was at SXSW, I stopped in to do an interview for a documentary film project called Ctrl+Alt+Compete, produced by Ten100 in partnership with Microsoft Corporation. Some background info and a clip of my interview has been posted on the Ctrl+Alt+Compete website. There's some great interviews up on the site, which I

McInblog 4408 days ago

Boulder Tech Stars Application Season Underway

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As many of you know, I'm a mentor and an investor in?TechStars. ?It's application season for TechStars Boulder right now, and Managing Director?Nicole Glaros?has planned some fun stuff coming up to make it easy to get your questions answered and to apply. Founder Dating, Feb 9th at 5:30pm. ?If you want to start your own... Read more The post Boulde...

McInblog 4439 days ago

Boulder Tech Stars Application Season Underway

 Mark As Read    

As many of you know, I'm a mentor and an investor in?TechStars. ?It's application season for TechStars Boulder right now, and Managing Director?Nicole Glaros?has planned some fun stuff coming up to make it easy to get your questions answered and to apply. Founder Dating, Feb 9th at 5:30pm. ?If you want to start your own

McInblog 4439 days ago

American Censorship Day: Stop Protect-IP and SOPA

 Mark As Read    

Congress is trying to break the internet. While I mean for the above sentence to be provocative, I'm not really indulging in hyperbole. Please join me and my partners at Foundry Group in participating in American Censorship day tomorrow, Wednesday 11/16/11. There are two disturbing and potentially quite damaging bills making their way through Congr...

McInblog 4517 days ago

American Censorship Day: Stop Protect-IP and SOPA

 Mark As Read    

Congress is trying to break the internet. While I mean for the above sentence to be provocative, I'm not really indulging in hyperbole. Please join me and my partners at Foundry Group in participating in American Censorship day tomorrow, Wednesday 11/16/11. There are two disturbing and potentially quite damaging bills making their way through Congr...

McInblog 4517 days ago

Protect Your Domain

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We had a (thankfully brief) scare in our portfolio last week: one of our companies temporarily lost control of its domain. An overseas third-party "bad actor" was able to convince the company's domain name registrar to transfer control of the company's domain without the company's knowledge. Fortunately, our company was able to regain control of......

McInblog 4525 days ago

Protect Your Domain

 Mark As Read    

We had a (thankfully brief) scare in our portfolio last week: one of our companies temporarily lost control of its domain. An overseas third-party "bad actor" was able to convince the company's domain name registrar to transfer control of the company's domain without the company's knowledge. Fortunately, our company was able to regain control of...

McInblog 4525 days ago

Goodbye Steve Jobs

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I've been very distracted and unproductive today since reading yesterday's news of Steve Jobs' death, on my iPhone, of course. While not at all unexpected, it still somehow felt quite sudden to me, and I've been spending my time since I heard the news watching the amazing outpouring of emotion and reflection on his life...

McInblog 4556 days ago

Foundry Group?s First Music Video: I?m a VC

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My partners and I have been cooking up this video over the summer, and we're finally ready to release it to the world. Jason and Brad recently released a book called Venture Deals, and Jason decided that releasing a music video was the best way to market the book. (Isn't that obvious?) Jason (my bandmate

McInblog 4587 days ago

Words, Links, Likes and Shares: The Evolution of Relevance

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While the dustup over Bing?s possible appropriation of Google?s long-tail search results is presently occupying the attention of the world of search, I thought I?d take a step back and offer a longer-term historical perspective about an aspect of search that fascinates me: namely the evolution of search algorithms to adopt ever greater amounts of...

McInblog 4803 days ago

Do More Faster

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My partner Brad Feld and TechStars CEO David Cohen just wrote a book called Do More Faster, which will be released in a week or so, and is presently available for pre-order on Amazon. In keeping with the title of the book, they have put together a compelling book in record time; they did so

McInblog 4924 days ago

Disk is the New Tape

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I came across this gem at Data Center Knowledge, mentioning Twitter's plans to move into their own data center, having outgrown the managed hosting services they use at NTT America. The article includes a great slide deck by Twitter's John Adams entitled Scaling Twitter, and was presented at this week's Chirp 2010 conference, which, sadly,...

McInblog 5095 days ago

An Audio Engineering Arthur C. Clarke Moment

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Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Well, today I read about a new audio editing that performs magic: Melodyne Editor. As readers of this blog know, I'm a guitarist and hobbyist recording engineer. I built out a ProTools HD recording studio in my converted garage in Portola V...

McInblog 5101 days ago

Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution

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A few weeks ago, during my family's Spring Break vacation, I had the pleasure of reading a great history of George Lucas and the massive impact he and the extended Lucasfilm family had on the technology behind filmmaking, and, ultimately on the broader technology ecosystem. This book is exhaustively researched and is almost textbook-like...

McInblog 5102 days ago

Pogoplug in the News

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The fine folks at Cloud Engines, makers of my favorite consumer electronics gadget, the pogoplug, have been very busy in 2010. They launched at retail here in the US and Canada and followed quickly with announcing availability of the pogoplug in the UK and Europe. It has been fun to start seeing French and German showing up in the pogoplug twitter ...

McInblog 5145 days ago

Apostrophes and Plurals Don?t Mix

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Warning: grammar rant ahead… FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, PEOPLE, NEVER EVER USE AN APOSTROPHE WHEN PLURALIZING A WORD! Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. I don't know what is so confusing about this, but I encounter this mistake many times a day. Because I had an excellent English teach in high school who was a big influence on me (thank you, M...

McInblog 5147 days ago

Topspin and the Future of Music Marketing

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I've had the pleasure of working with the fine folks at Topspin Media since I joined the board of the company when Foundry Group invested in Topspin's Series B in 2008, and I've been fortunate to know Topspin's co-founders, Peter Gotcher and Shamal Ranasinghe since the late '90s. Topspin was founded with the premise that the key to any artist's suc...

McInblog 5160 days ago

New Gadget: Verizon MiFi

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While I wait with eager anticipation to get my hands on the new iPhone 3GS, I've been enjoying a new gadget: the Verizon MiFi. The MiFi is a combination wireless 3G EVDO modem with an integrated router/hub and wifi, all delivered in a sleek black unit the size of a ...

McInblog 5258 days ago

Startup2Startup Panel

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Last night, I had the pleasure of being on a panel discussion with Dave McClure, Jeff Clavier and Howard Lindzon, moderated by David Cohen of TechStars. This was a Startup2Startup event, graciously imported to Boulder for a night by Se?or McClure, that guy with all those hats. We started the ...

McInblog 5258 days ago

Kindle: My Next Notebook?

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I'm a big fan of my Kindle 2, and I use it nearly every day. I like to read, and I like to read several books at the same time. I also travel frequently, and often I find myself reading new releases, which meant I'd find myself trying to ...

McInblog 5258 days ago

Bay Area Food Log

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My family just got back last week from spending a month in San Francisco. While we've lived (quite happily) in Boulder over the past three years, we spent 17 years in the Bay Area and like to get back there on a regular basis for an extended stay to reconnect ...

McInblog 5258 days ago

Long Hiatus / Random News

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It has been a while since I've written a blog post. I think some of it is twitter-induced. Instead of a blog post, I simply tweet a URL and feel that I've done my part. Ahh, the lazyweb. Actually, there is now an official description of this phenomenon: the Gresham/Morgan ...

McInblog 5258 days ago

Bay Area Food Log

 Mark As Read    

My family just got back last week from spending a month in San Francisco. While we've lived (quite happily) in Boulder over the past three years, we spent 17 years in the Bay Area and like to get back there on a regular basis for an extend stay to reconnect with old friends and to reconnect with the great cuisine the Bay Area has to offer. Any of y...

McInblog 5327 days ago

Kindle: My Next Notebook?

 Mark As Read    

I'm a big fan of my Kindle 2, and I use it nearly every day. I like to read, and I like to read several books at the same time. I also travel frequently, and often I find myself reading new releases, which meant I'd find myself trying to cram multiple hardcover books into my shoulder bag, which was bad for my shoulder bag, not to mention my shoulde...

McInblog 5336 days ago

Startup2Startup Panel

 Mark As Read    

Last night, I had the pleasure of being on a panel discussion with Dave McClure, Jeff Clavier and Howard Lindzon, moderated by David Cohen of TechStars. This was a Startup2Startup event, graciously imported to Boulder for a night by Señor McClure, that guy with all those hats. We started the evening off with margaritas and dinner at Tahona and...

McInblog 5384 days ago

New Gadget: Verizon MiFi

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While I wait with eager anticipation to get my hands on the new iPhone 3GS, I've been enjoying a new gadget: the Verizon MiFi. The MiFi is a combination wireless 3G EVDO modem with an integrated router/hub and wifi, all delivered in a sleek black unit the size of a small stack of business cards. I use a MacBook Air, and I had a Verizon EVDO USB mod...

McInblog 5402 days ago

Bing Juice?

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With all the hubbub surrounding the launch of Bing, I finally got around to spending some time with MSFT's new search engine over the last few days. My behavior, along with millions of other search lookie-loos out there, likely single-handedly accounts for MSFT's probably temporary increase in search market share since the launch of Bing. I may an...

McInblog 5402 days ago

Memeo Share Gets Five Stars at Cnet's Download.com

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Congrats to Foundry Group portfolio company Memeo for receiving a five star rating from cnet's download.com for the new release of Memeo Share, version 2! Download.com just gave Memeo Share a five star editor's rating, and they've got a nice more detailed blog post about the software here. I've known Memeo's founder, Hong Bui for several years and...

McInblog 5404 days ago

Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System

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I just finished reading one of the most nerdtastic books I've read in a long time, thanks to Kwin Kramer at Oblong, who generously gave me the book he had just acquired at the MIT Press bookstore while in Cambridge. Kwin hadn't even read the book yet, but I think he saw me salivate (and therefore judged me more in need of the book than himself) as ...

McInblog 5410 days ago

High Job Satisfaction Week: Gist, Glue, Medialets, Pogoplug, Cohen, Eminem and more...

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When work is going particularly well, my partner Jason Mendelson and I like to say, "today is a high job satisfaction day". Well, this past week has been a high job satisfaction week. (Of course, in general I feel like an insanely lucky guy to have the job that I do, so my job satisfaction stays at a pretty high level most of the time.) But this pa...

McInblog 5432 days ago

Feature Request: Compress My Tweets

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OK, I'm only half joking here, but I'm surprised no one has wired up an app to Twitter that lets you pass compressed/zipped text messages via twitter so you can send messages longer than 140 characters. The community should agree on a convention, for example, let's say whenever a tweet begins with #ZT: (for zipped tweet), this app would assume the ...

McInblog 5433 days ago

Five Peace Band: Chick Corea & John McLaughlin

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Last week I attended the annual NVCA conference, held this year in Boston. Boston obliged with some lovely springtime weather and, most importantly, Boston provided a once-in-my-lifetime musical event, in the form of the second-to-last show in the world tour of Chick Corea and John McLaughlin's Five Peace Band. My partner (and Soul Patch band-mate)...

McInblog 5439 days ago

From the Archives: Rattlesnake

 Mark As Read    

As many of my readers know, I've got a small record label, in partnership with my band-mates from Soul Patch. The genesis of Toothless Monkey Music (the name is another story entirely) starts when I set up my first "real" recording studio in a sound-proofed, detached two-car garage at my former home in Portola Valley, CA. It is on an idyllic creek-...

McInblog 5461 days ago
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