I acquired an e mail from Matt Blumberg this morning with the above picture that stated,
“We’ve been running a blog for 19 years. I can bear in mind sitting collectively above Tremendous Liquor futzing with Typepad prefer it was yesterday.”
“Tremendous Liquor” is Superior Liquor in Superior, Colorado, which was on the primary flooring of the constructing off of Hwy 36, which was my workplace on the time. There was additionally a pizza restaurant on the primary flooring.
I requested Matt if we began on the identical day as a result of I couldn’t bear in mind. He stated,
“Actually the identical day. We sat at a desk proper exterior your workplace in Superior, pulled up our laptops, and taught ourselves Typepad collectively and created our templates. Fred had already been running a blog for about 6 months, and we had dinner the evening earlier than (can’t bear in mind the place, assume The Med) and determined we’d give it a attempt. We couldn’t discover different good examples of VC or CEO blogs. “
I went and checked out a few of these first few posts. Matt’s was You’re Solely a First Time CEO As soon as. Mine included To Weblog or To not Weblog (which known as out a handful of VC bloggers who began earlier than me), Weblog instruments – Newsgator and Moveable Poster, TDC (Thinly Disguised Contempt), and my first guide overview: Free Prize Contained in the Radioactive Boy Scout Charge Hikes.
My favourite of these was TDC (Thinly Disguised Contempt).
As was the custom on the time when new bloggers appeared on the scene, Fred Wilson wrote good posts linking to every of us. His welcome to Matt was Welcome to the Weblog World Matt, and his welcome to me was This Is Going To Be Fascinating.
This put up wouldn’t be full with out my hat tip to Fred, who, for my part, is the OG VC blogger. His first put up was creatively (effectively – probably not) titled MY First Put up.
19 years is a very long time to do something. It’s near my board service file, which satirically was on Matt’s firm Return Path with Fred. The ending of Fred’s first put up resonates with me at the moment because it did 19 years in the past.
“I don’t know if i’ll write rather a lot in my weblog or hardly ever. I hope its rather a lot, as a result of i’ve rather a lot to say. However we’ll see about that.”