When I pick up my sticks to play once a month, I can scrape it around pretty well. I hit a drive and than gice credit to nasdaq 5,000 for my results. Seems I am not alone. Jack is leaking his disdain for today’s golfers – save Tiger. Eddie has the full story on the …
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Wallstrip comes back to the Yellow Metal
I am very bullish on Gold lately and have even traded it well the last few years. No real size, but I am tempted to add to my core positions lately. Just last week I wrote: I still own a bunch of Gold and Silver stocks – probably 10 percent of the stocks I own …
Gofffffff without the 'L" and without the PROFITS!
Talk about an industry in despair. Eddie is doing just that at the GolfNow blog. I sent him a few articles this weekend and he put together a great post on the woeful state of the business of golf for the manufacturers. I saw the new squarehead drivers that Callaway and Nike are offering up. …
Why GPS trend is still early
COST! The major barrier to any ubiquotis technology – is still falling. in the meantime, tons of profits to be had by investors on the way. I like Garmin (GRMN), Trimble (TRMB) and NavTeq (NVT). I used to love Lojack but have long exited. Here’s a cool product for golfers: Thanks Marc for the hat …
Leveraging Community with Web 2.0 Tools at GolfNow.com
UPDATE – Om Malik ponders whether social networks are just a feature. It’s a good question. I think yes for the most part, especially today. At Golfnow.com, we are leveraging the customer relationship (booking tee times) to build a community. For a long time, the founders thought they would just code it themselves. I bugged …
Wallstrip Comes to Phoenix
I am tired of middle seat “red eyes” to New York so Wallstrip came to Phoenix. Some great stuff coming the next 7 days so stay tuned. The weather was an absolute disaster save the 30 minutes of sun that we had to film the first episode. Lindsay made contact a few times and we …
Golfnow.tv Launches!
It’s a good first question and good integration of trivia into a big community. Get your answers in and check out Golfnow.com – now in 45 markets and going strong.
WeatherBill – Way Cool Idea
The Weatherbill link and explanation is why I still check in on TechCrunch on occassion. I love to read about the new companies being launched and this one is interesting. I wish that the site would just do way more of this. I can think of thousands of golf course owners on the east coast …
Vertical Specialization – I am bullish on the "last mile" of search
Brad says Vertical Specialization is on sale for $310 million of StubHub. I say Wow! As an investor in GolfNow.com…from your lips… Major congrats to the management and investors. Tickets is a very crowded, competitive, vertical space and when I read the news, I have to say I was shocked at the price. Ebay has …
Golfing with A VC…Fred lost how many balls…?
A blow off day for me today. Kinda like China stocks last week :) ? My friend Fred Wilson was in town and we headed out to my friend Brad’s most luxurious course at Silverleaf. It was 75 and sunny – almost New York weather. Most suprisingly, Fred has some game for a crackberry/workaholic. No …