Today, EchoStar announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sling Media for $380m in cash. Sling is a Mobius VC portfolio company where I’ve had the pleasure of serving on the board for three very exciting years. I first met Blake Krikorian, Sling’s CEO and co-founder shortly after he presented at the May…
Yesterday, Joe Zawinul passed away at his home in Vienna, Austria. Joe Zawinul played keys/organ and shares composition credits with the great Miles Davis on two of my all-time favorite (and groundbreaking) jazz-fusion albums, In a Silent Way (iTunes) and Bitches Brew (iTunes). These two albums are incredible to experience and are worthy of a…
Hats off to my friend Jud for passing this video along to me over enchiladas and margaritas at the Rio last week. It is an image manipulation technique for resizing images by removing less relevant visual data, instead of by cropping or shrinking/expanding. Hard to explain, so watch it. If a picture is worth 1k…
Girl by the whirlpool Lookin’ for a new fool Don’t follow leaders Watch the parkin’ meters -Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues So in the past couple weeks, I’ve noticed something strange. The parking meters throughout downtown Boulder are disappearing and being replaced with new Swedish-built solar-powered parking pay stations located on each block. Happily, these…