OC VC

Healthcare: The Final IT Frontier

ocvc — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:01:05 +0000

One of my investment thesis is that the continued convergence of computing and communications technologies will drive innovation and adoption in the healthcare industry. I’m a big believer in convergence and multidisciplinary science and technology. In fact, you could say that I’m putting my money where my mouth is here. If you’re similarly interested in such [...]

Decompression Mandatory

ocvc — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:40:09 +0000

I spent an extended July 4th weekend with good family friends at Lake Arrowhead and returned to a partially flooded house. Normally, I would have been irate. Instead, I simply chalked it up to shit happening and have rolled with the punches this week for the simple reason that I returned completely relaxed (thanks Will, [...]

Twitter Revisted

ocvc — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:22:03 +0000

I had an interesting conversation this week about Twitter. I explained to a friend that I have an account, used it for awhile, abandoned it for awhile, and have revived it in an attempt to learn more about it as a social medium. Here is how I view it and my three self-imposed rules of [...]

Alive and Well

ocvc — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:59:14 +0000

I have been blogging less frequently these days and spent some time thinking about the reasons why over the long weekend. Before I get into that, I thought I’d reiterate the reasons why I blog in the first place. I originally started blogging when I was at Intel as a way to inform my team [...]

The Value of Free

ocvc — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:02:14 +0000

I was at D7 the other week and spent a fair amount of time discussing the “value of free” with attendees. The juxtaposition of traditional media and consumer Internet hinges on this concept so I thought I would explain a bit about what I am referring to. At the risk of oversimplifying here, a vast [...]