19 years ago today

I received an email from Matt Blumberg this morning with the image above that said,

"We've been blogging for 19 years. I remember sitting together over Super Liquor playing futz with Typepad like it was yesterday."

"Super Liquor" is Superior Liquor in Superior, Colorado, which was on the first floor of the building off Highway 36, which was my office at the time. There was also a pizzeria on the first floor.

I asked Matt if we started on the same day because I couldn't remember. He said,

"Literally the same day. We sat down at a desk just outside your office in Superior, pulled out our laptops, learned to write together, and created our models. Fred had already been blogging for about 6 months, and we had had dinner the day before (can't remember where, think The Med) and decided to give it a try. We couldn't find any other good examples of VC or CEO blogs.”

I went to see some of those early posts. Matt's was You're Only a First Time CEO Once. Mine included To Blog or Not to Blog (which called a handful of VC bloggers who started before me), blogging tools – Newsgator and Moveable Poster, TDC (Thinly Disguised Contempt) and my first book review: Free Prize Inside the Radioactive Boy Increased recognition rate.

My favorite was the TDC (Thinly Disguised Contemporary).

As was the tradition when new bloggers appeared on the scene, Fred Wilson wrote lovely articles related to each of us. Her greeting to Matt was Welcome to Blog World Matt, and her greeting to me was This Is Going To Be Interesting.

This article wouldn't be complete without my hats off to Fred, who I believe is the OG VC blogger. His first creative post was (well – not really) titled MY first post.

19 is a long time to do anything. This is close to my board service record, which ironically was about Matt Return Path's company with Fred. The end of Fred's first message resonates with me today as it did 19 years ago.

"I don't know if I will write a lot on my blog or rarely. I hope it's a lot, because I have a lot to say. But we'll see about that."

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I received an email from Matt Blumberg this morning with the image above that said,

"We've been blogging for 19 years. I remember sitting together over Super Liquor playing futz with Typepad like it was yesterday."

"Super Liquor" is Superior Liquor in Superior, Colorado, which was on the first floor of the building off Highway 36, which was my office at the time. There was also a pizzeria on the first floor.

I asked Matt if we started on the same day because I couldn't remember. He said,

"Literally the same day. We sat down at a desk just outside your office in Superior, pulled out our laptops, learned to write together, and created our models. Fred had already been blogging for about 6 months, and we had had dinner the day before (can't remember where, think The Med) and decided to give it a try. We couldn't find any other good examples of VC or CEO blogs.”

I went to see some of those early posts. Matt's was You're Only a First Time CEO Once. Mine included To Blog or Not to Blog (which called a handful of VC bloggers who started before me), blogging tools – Newsgator and Moveable Poster, TDC (Thinly Disguised Contempt) and my first book review: Free Prize Inside the Radioactive Boy Increased recognition rate.

My favorite was the TDC (Thinly Disguised Contemporary).

As was the tradition when new bloggers appeared on the scene, Fred Wilson wrote lovely articles related to each of us. Her greeting to Matt was Welcome to Blog World Matt, and her greeting to me was This Is Going To Be Interesting.

This article wouldn't be complete without my hats off to Fred, who I believe is the OG VC blogger. His first creative post was (well – not really) titled MY first post.

19 is a long time to do anything. This is close to my board service record, which ironically was about Matt Return Path's company with Fred. The end of Fred's first message resonates with me today as it did 19 years ago.

"I don't know if I will write a lot on my blog or rarely. I hope it's a lot, because I have a lot to say. But we'll see about that."