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 is 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: Flight School 08 has been canceled. Please stand by for Flight School 09. For details, and for continuing coverage of air and space, please see the Flight School blog.

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

Recent articles:

• The Coming Ad Revolution (February 11, 2008) - my recent op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal.
• Don't cry for me, Microhoogle! (February 11, 2008) - a longer, more nuanced explication of the same idea on Huffington Post - takes more of your time and provides more examples.

e-mail: edyson@boxbe.com

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