“Scarred by memories of their dot-com losses, cash-rich VCs remain resolutely reluctant in their avoidance of risky startups.”

“Ben Smith, the former head of financially troubled startup Casbah Corp., knows firsthand the boom-and-bust cycle of the late ’90s… Despite his disappointing debut as a Silicon Valley chief executive officer, the 36-year-old is back in the startup business.”

“Radio-frequency identification — with track-everything-anywhere capability, all the time — is about to change your life.”

“Ben Smith, the former head of financially troubled startup Casbah Corp., knows firsthand the boom-and-bust cycle of the late ’90s… Despite his disappointing debut as a Silicon Valley chief executive officer, the 36-year-old is back in the startup business.”

“I’ve been involved in the Web standards community almost as long as I’ve been working on the Web, and I’ve long felt that designing to W3C recommendations is the Right Thing To Do. When it came time to redesign the adaptivepath.com site, my partners agreed that we should approach the project from a standards perspective. But before we started, we discussed whether the effort — and it was a lot of effort — was really worth it.”