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Monday, November 4, 2002

Had a very amusing chat with R.W. 'Johnny' Apple the NY Times writer (and former DC bureau chief) this past weekend. We're both alums of Western Reserve Academy and current members of the school's Board of Visitors. We have a few mutual acquaintances in the newspaper world, including Jim Bellows, my editor at the old Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Johnny speaks as well as he writes....
Comments 9:19:35 PM    

Venture capitalists raised $1.7 bn in Q3 a huge fall from the $7 bn raised in Q3 2001. But in 1965, VCs only raised $100 million for the whole year... the world has changed enormously...
Comments 9:07:45 PM    

Dell's new PDAs to launch November 18. I think I remember reading it uses Microsoft, not Palm, technology...
Comments 4:22:27 PM    

The venture capital slump is getting worse, according to the Washington Post. There were still something like 139 companies funded last quarter... I wonder if there's another period in history (not counting the last 5 years) where 139 venture investments looks like a 'slump'...
Comments 12:33:39 PM    

Bill Gate's big bet on tablet computers. And here's a Rafe Needleman take on monster laptops with two screens that you carry around on wheeled carts. I went to a demo of the Fujitsu tablet at Stanford... it is an interesting machine, but not sure it is a compelling machine...
Comments 12:21:29 PM    



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