Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.