Hi, I'm Esther Dyson, a long-time catalyst of start-ups in information technology in the US and other markets, including Russia. Since selling my company, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks in 2004, I have taken on newer challenges in private aviation and space as well as in health care (as a director of 23andMe, a consumer genetics company). My IT investments have included Flickr and del.icio.us (both sold to Yahoo!), and  Medstory (sold to Microsoft), as well as Meetup Inc., Eventful.com, Boxbe and Voxiva; I sit on the boards of the latter four companies. I'm also an active investor in air and space, with holdings in Space Adventures and Zero-G Corporation, as well as XCOR Aerospace, Constellation Services International, Coastal Technologies Group, Dopplr.com, Airship Ventures and Icon Aircraft.  I do business under the (reclaimed) name of EDventure Holdings.  

UPDATE: I just finished six months of backup cosmonaut training and had an amazing and wonderful time. I'm eager to return to my day job, and eager to go into space as soon as I can figure out how (to finance it!).

For details of my EDventures, see the links below for Huffpost and FS blog. (I'm cross-posting.)

• bio
• twitter
• Huffington Post blog
• Flight School blog
• Flight School '07 archives
• pictures

Recent articles:

• Aenne Burda Award Bestowed on Esther Dyson (January 25, 2009 ) "The award is presented to women in the media who successfully implement their extraordinary visions."
• Fliight School: Weightless at last! (January 21, 2009) "Being weightless is tremendous fun. You really are flying. The amazing thing is that it does not feel amazing. It feels natural."
• The Quantification of Everything (September 17, 2008) - As we drown in information, we try to make sense of it. Just as economists measure us en masse, we can now measure ourselves one by one ... and it is insidiously fascinating.
• The Coming Ad Revolution (February 11, 2008) - my op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal.

See also:

• Bits, Bands and Books (June 6, 2008) - Paul Krugman op-ed in The New York Times.

  “The predictions of '90s technology gurus are coming true more slowly than enthusiasts expected — but the future they envisioned is still on the march. In 1994, one of those gurus, Esther Dyson, made a striking prediction: that the ease with which digital content can be copied and disseminated would eventually force businesses to sell the results of creative activity cheaply, or even give it away.”

e-mail: edyson@boxbe.com

Thanks to Chris Locke
for helping me to get these pages up!